the following is a cnn special report. you want to die, you better leave! tonight, what s the bottom line you want the american people to know? there was a very sophisticated multi-part plan overseen by donald trump. you can t ever accept when they steal and reagan rob. attempt to stay in power. as the longest, largest investigation into donald tr trump s attempts to stay presen barreled towards inclusion, t that. the explosive testimony. i heard some the president said something to the effect of i don t think they have weapons let my people in. new insight from witnesses. i said, you want me to take my statement 32 million voters and just let them filled out the window? get back to criminal intent issue. i don t know what he bel believed. the answer questions. i feel like we don t know th full story on the proud boys an oathkeepers. and what might lie ahead. the former president and his allies was an clear and present danger to american democracy. n
united states authorizing this unprecented search? yeah, andrea, what o sources have told us about the search warrant that was executed is that it was it did specify that the fbi was going to be looking for claified information. and information from the president related to presidential records. but this is something that officials, not just in the fb but in the national archives as well has been dealing with over almost a year now. the bac and forth between trump s counc and the arcves started shortly after auguration, once they realized that there were items missing in the archives as they were going through the presidential records that they had. d 15 boxes were already picked up in january. that continues and there was more extended back and forth. d the only reason why archives hadn t stopped that process of continuing to recover additional items on top of these additional boxes of classified and presidential records is because classified information was found
go to the american public and tell them to stop this. he has to go to the american public and stop this.me kevin mccarthy was not the only republican callings on donald trump to put an end to the violence that day. we learned 11 other republicans congresswe reached out to the white house or made some kind of public statement that day to implore the president to do something, to do anything to stop the violence. in fact, his eldest son, don jr. texted then white house chief of staff mark meadows saying, he s got to condemn this asap. the capitol police tweet is not enough. and he has to lead now.as it has gone too far. and gotten out of hand. three different fox news hosts sean hannity, laura ingram, brian, all of them, all texted meadows saying trump needed to make a statement telling people to leave. that is what we know was happening outside of the white house during the 187mens from trump s speech on the ellipse urging supporters to fight like hell andel when he finally
scheme, as he tries to avoid more jailtime. and also today, walmart, walgreen s, and cvs, all ordered to pay up in a multimillion dollar opioid settlement. where will that money go, as prosecutors claim they helped fuel a silent epidemic that left so many americans hooked and hundreds of thousands dead. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we ll start with our politics lead. major developments when it comes to learning more details behind the mar-a-lago raid. this afternoon, u.s. magistrate judge bruce rhinehart ruled he will unseal additional documents surrounding the search and left the door open for releasing parts of the actual affidavit, which lays out in detail why the justice department felt the need to take the unprecedented step of searching the home of a former president. the doj is against revealing that affidavit. they say it would provide a road map for their criminal investigation to possible future defendants. and they say it could chill future cooperation b
President itself wants to do the interview and its only his lawyers holding him back. So what is really going on here . Does the president want to talk or not . Politico suggests the answer is yes. Despite the risks. Thats because of, quote, trumps belief in his selfcreated myth, that he can convince anyone of anything if hes simply given the opportunity to get them in a room alone. Apparently that includes Special Counsel bob mueller himself. I want to bring in nbcs Peter Alexander whos live in berkeley heights, new jersey. Peter, if the president really wants to do it, he could just say yes. I mean, his legal take is working for him. So whats going on here . Yes, chris, you make a very good point. There would be one easy way for Rudy Giuliani and, frankly, President Trump, to wrap this thing up sooner. Giuliani saying he wants it to end within the next three weeks, by september 1st. He doesnt want it to interfere with the november elections. They would sit down with robert
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