Ago, a federal judge released the most comprehensive narrative to date of the trial 2020 Election Subversion Case against former president Donald Trump. Its all laid out in a 165 Page Document filed by the Office Of Special Counsel, Jack Smith, as the office plays out a case for the judge in a way that Jack Smith and his lawyers believe would get around the president ial Immunity Protections outlined by the u. S. Supreme court and a Decision Jim made earlier this year. Lets get straight to cnns Paula Reid and paula just to be clear to our viewers, this just dropped a minutes ago, so were all just going over this information, absorbing at trying to determine whats new, whats important you have been reviewing it in the few minutes it dropped what stands out to you at this early hour and take this as an extraordinary filing that was just released to the public. Its enormous like you said, its roughly 170 pages and it is full of redactions were not getting to see everything that the Specia
welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. we begin with continuing drama on capitol hill. day two for the chaotic and his tor historic fight for the speaker of the house. i ve never seen this. the house has adjourned until 8:00 p.m. after mccarthy failed on his attempt not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six, six attempts to win a majority of votes in the house to become speaker. a source says republicans believe there may be a path forward between the promccarthy and anti mccarthy republicans to negotiate, to choose a house speaker. let s go to manu raju on capitol hill. i am hearing as you are hearing from members of congress, you re hearing from them off the record i guess and hearing from them on camera, who are saying yeah, they think there actually might be a way forward. some are saying that too, on the record chip roy being one of them. others are suggesting there is not. there is still very little room for error for kevin mccarthy but mccarthy just le
Resigned tonight. The robust way he stood up to the Trump Administration and to trump himself on ethics issues and the president s unprecedented financial conflicts of interest. His name is walter shoeb. He said he was not forced out of the Office Of Government Ethics. He basically says hes leaving because the u. S. Governmentestics rules are not Strong Enough to allow him to stand up to what this president and his family are doing so he is leaving his jb at the Office Of Government Ethics in order to try to strengthen the rules from the outside. Very interesting resignation today. Weve got more on that story ahead. Theres a lot going on. Weve got a big show tonight. I said at the very end of last nights show weve got a scoop to share with you tonight. This is that scoop. Inhouse on your staff weve been talking about this as and inside, kind of an insideout
story. Not your typical news story, not your particular scoop. But i think its important. One of the few times weve ever had a sco
arrest warrant paving the way to unseal documents that detail evidence against him. the judge overseeing hearings in the kohberger case has issued a sweeping gag order prohibiting law enforcement and attorneys involved in the proceedings from quote making extra judicial statements written or oral concerning this case including evidence, criminal records or any matter likely to interfere with a fair trial. the gag order was issued as new details emerge about kohberger s whereabouts in the seven weeks between the time of the killings and his arrest in pennsylvania. including two traffic stops in indiana as he and his father drove from washington state university to the family home in pennsylvania arriving in mid december. our office at the disposal of the idaho authorities to help facilitate a complete background investigation into the defendant both activities prior to the murders and his activities after the murders. reporter: the investigation includes other locations where
story. big deal right. new detail evidence into american intelligence gathering on russian shan attempts to get inside the election system. this was a big story based again on a very classified document. real story for the intercept. now a month later the intercept story is remembered less for the content of the story and more for what happened immediately after they published. because immediately after they published it we learned that there was an arrest. we got our first head s up of the intercept story just before 4 p.m. on june 5th. an hour later at 5 p.m., the justice department announced they had arrested the person who had allegedly leaked that top secret document to the intercept. and this is a pending federal case against that nsa contractor. it s not resolved at all.