plus, wnba star brittney griner is set to take the stand in russia, while the family of another american also held by the kremlin, also on drug charges, calls for more attention to his case. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead and merrick garland saying moments ago that the justice department will not hesitate to hold donald trump accountable for the events around january 6th even if trump is the republican nominee for president. if that s where the evidence leads them. listen to what else attorney general garland just told nbc s lester holt. we pursue justice without fear or favor. we intend to hold everyone, anyone who is criminally responsible for the events surrounding january 6th, for any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another, accountable. that s what we do. we don t pay any attention to other issues with respect to that. so if donald trump were to become a candidate for
trial recorded short and his attorney leaving the federal courthouse last friday. just showing up. and short and jacob are the highest ranking trump administration officials known to have cooperated with the doj probe. both gave testimony to the january 6 committee and jacob, you will recall, was a live witness during a key hearing last month. meanwhile, member of the january 6 select committee congresswoman elaine luria revealed new testimony showing how former president trump edited a speech that was meant to condemn the insurrection. she tweeted this. it took more than 24 hours for president trump to address the nation again after his rose garden video on january 6 in which he affectionately told his followers to go home in peace. there were more things he was unwilling to say. here is some of the video testimony. i m not sure when those conversations began because they could have started early the next morning but i believe they started that evening, on the evening of t
this morning. ashley: the republican was killed wednesday when another car hit hers head-on. it happened wednesday afternoon in indiana, a driver veered into jackie walorski lane. potts and thompson were aides of jackie walorski and were also killed in the crash. edith smuker was pronounced dead at the scene. tributes poured in. mike braunpaid tribute to his friend on the senate floor. my good friend jackie walorski tragically killed in a car accident, like the ultimate gut punch, one of the first great hoosiers i got to know, she will be missed and condolences to all of the families. ashley: jackie walorski s husband dean was notified she was killed and said she has returned home with her lord jesus christ, keep her family in your thoughts and prayers. flags ordered to be flown at half staff. she was respected by members of both parties for her work on the house ways and means committee. former president trump remembered her as a wonderful woman and house minority lead
that john eastman continued his hunt for widespread voter fraud even after president biden was inaugurated. hours after president biden s inauguration, mr. eastman emailed rudy giuliani, donald j. trump s personal lawyer propose that they challenge in georgia for two senate seats that were won by democrats. according to the times eastman hoped that by trying to overturn another election and finding fraud in that race he would find proof that the 2020 election was stolen, but as we all know, was there no fraud. the election wasn t stolen and the big lie is still just that, a lie. the times also reports that eastman charged the trump campaign $270,000 and no surprise, given trump s long history of not paying his bills, it looks like trump never paid him. by the time mr. biden became president mr. eastman tried to be paid directly although two people with knowledge of the campaign s finances said he never was. john eastman has been under a lot of scrutiny from the justice depart
here. and later, first of his washington d.c.. and now texas governor greg abbott is blasting dozens of migrants to new york city. all of that and more is coming up. happy saturday morning, to i m cory confident for katie fang. we have special of the fbi warrant and all of the twists and turns from this week of nonstop news. let s go sort of with what we know so far, a federal judge in florida until four documents telling us more about the mar-a-lago search. they show that fbi agents have covered 11 cents of classified arguments, including some that were top secret. according to those documents, the search was a part of a probe connected to three laws, including the espionage act. and to protect national defence. trump was asserting that everything that he had with the classified, however the law cited in the search warrant and the search warrant to be classified for it to be a crime. earlier in the, week and we see now trump received a federal grand jury subpoena, for se