of trying to on jukt its mar-a-lago investigation. a key member of the january 6th committee weighs in. and we re also following the dire situation in jackson, mississippi, where 150,000 people are without a safe water supply for a third straight day. will an emergency pump finally bring them relief? and americans could be just days away from getting the first updated covid booster shots. the fda is green lighting tweaks to the vaccine so it can better target the omicron variant. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m pamela brown, and you re in the situation room. our top story tonight, the legal drama in the mar-a-lago investigation. trump s attorneys now have until 8:00 p.m. eastern to respond to the justice department after prosecutors accused the trump team of hiding and removing government documents at his florida home. cnn political correspondent sara murray has our report. mr. president! reporter:
justice department s opposition to a judge appointing a so-called special master to examine some of the government records seized by the fbi at donald trump s florida home. neal katyal, andrew weissmann, and matt miller will give us the expert analysis. the most important thing to keep in mind, the single most important thing to know about the trump lawyers filing tonight is that it does not say one word about something included in the justice department s filing last night. it could get some of the trump lawyers indicted for obstruction of justice. one of the very important pieces of evidence in the justice department s filing last night is a copy of an under oath affidavit written by one of the trump s lawyers, inside and signed by one of the other trump lawyers, swearing under oath on that day that at that moment they were handing over to the fbi and a federal prosecutor a trump s home, all of the government documents that were at donald trump s home at that time, everyt
trump s florida home. neal katyal andrew weissmann, and matt miller will give us the air inside. the most important thing to keep in mind, the single most important thing to know about the trump lawyers filing tonight is that it does not say one word about something included in the justice department s filing last night. it could get some of the trump lawyers indicted for obstruction of justice. one of the very important pieces of evidence in the justice department s filing last night is a copy of an under oath affidavit written by one of the trump s lawyers, inside swearing under oath on that day that at that moment they were handing over to the fbi and a federal prosecutor a trump s home, all of the government documents that were at donald trump s home at that time. everything. those lawyers said under oath, to the fbi, in this affidavit, that they conducted a search of donald trump s home, after receipt of the subpoena in order to locate any and all documents that are re
the fbi search at trump s mar-a-lago home still the biggest story in the country. a big development over an hour ago regarding the search al mar-a-lago. the judge who approved the search warrant will hear argument as 1:00 p.m. thursday about whether to unseal the search warrant affidavit. the doj has asked a judge to keep it sealed while the former president wants it released. while we re focused on the former president s legal troubles, he s not the only one in the trump orbit facing legal entanglements. rudy giuliani is now a target in georgia s 2020 election probe and is scheduled to go before a special grand jury tomorrow. another longtime trump ally, allan weisselberg is expected to plead guilty to criminal charges in a tax case tied to the manhattan das office. we just learned former white house lawyer eric hirsh man who testified before the house january 6th committee has been subpoenaed in the doj s insurrection probe. trump acknowledged the temperature needs to be to
one right away, the day of the search, as michael cohen did. you don t wait for the government to read everything, and then ask for one later. you ask for it for documents that are uniquely yours, not somebody else s. here, these government documents have been stolen by trump, their government documents. and said there is no case for a special master. i think that that is why this filing tonight by trump s lawyers, it s not a legal document. this is a pr filing. i think that in addition to the omissions that andrew identified. there s another striking one. they never explained still what donald trump was doing with all of these stolen government documents. this is a filing very high on legal gobbledegook, instead of rebutting the factual account that the government offered yesterday in the filings. this is supposed to be a reply brief, reply to what? reply to what the justice department filed yesterday, and to sum up that justice department filing yesterday, the department made it clea