reports that attorney general merrick garland deliberated for weeks before approving the warrant application. now, garland faces an even more daunting and consequential decision, that is whether to pursue criminal charges against the former president. now that decision is amplified as an fbi organization representative warns that growing calls for violence against law enforcement are, quote, real and imminent. the fbi investigating an unprecedented number of threats to bureau personnel and property in the wake of the court authorized search of mar-a-lago. also this morning, rudy giuliani firing back after prosecutors in georgia tell him that he is a target of the special grand jury there. we ll have more on that in a moment. let s begin this morning, here in washington, cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz tracking all the latest developments. the justice department is making clear just how serious this investigation is. what do we know about where it sta
his message to the people of maui about their loss and the recovery while the next storm threat takes aim at the texas gulf coast, tropical storm harold, less than 100 miles away from landfall. good morning, thanks for being here. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york and as we come on the air, the first of donald trump s 18 co-defendants has just surrendered down in georgia. scott hall charged in the covey county election breach has been booked at the rice street bail. his bail set at $10,000. trump lawyer john eastman also expected to surrender as soon as today, according to his attorney. eastman faces nine counts including racketeering for his alleged role in trying to overturn the state s 2020 election. the man whose name is at the top of that indictment, the former president, says he will
a lot in the story, you know, a former elections official had told the post and we previously reported this that she let in some trump supporters to try to prove in fact this election hadn t worked the way it was supposed to. she didn t believe biden should have won. and so she allowed in, it turns out, a person who works in the bail bondsman business, and then he in turn contacted his sources with the trump campaign, and emails show that ultimately elections officials and county clerk down there were receiving information from this computer forensics firm that was in touch with a former national security official who was on trump s side, and they all worked together to get this team down there. on january 7th, pardon me, it was the day after january 6th as, you know, as d.c. was just reeling from what had just happened here, there was a team of computer experts driving and flying to covey county, georgia,