transparency in this unprecedented situation and he set in motion essentially a process where the justice department can come and propose redactions to this crucial document that backs up that search and seizure at mar-a-lago last monday. so during this hearing there was a media lawyer advocating for transparency here, saying the judge is in the place of the media, in the place of the public and becomes the gatekeeper here for what is released widely. but the judge also was hearing from the justice department, from jay bratt, the head of counter intel, one of the top attorneys that we know has been working on this investigation. and one of the things that bratt emphasized is that this is an ongoing criminal investigation that needs to be protected, there s grand jury activity described in that affidavit, there are several witnesses whose interviews with the fbi or with the grand jury are also described in that affidavit, that it does have extensive information about the inves
fbi to his home with a welcome letter from barack obama, which is a state possession, which is a felony, you wouldn t think there s a lot left to accuse the guy of. you d think they d have run out of sins. no. there s one left. it s a big one. the crime of all crimes, an offense so diabolical, so morally repugnant, so contrary to the laws of god and nature, that once revealed to the public donald trump is done forever. he will never again darken the door of american democracy. he will slink back in shame to his lair off the fifth tee to prepare for his well-deserved punishment. won t see him again until sentencing. that s how bad this is. what did donald trump do, ladies and gentlemen? we can now tell you. donald trump created the covid vaccine. he did that himself. on purpose, with malice of forethought, the vax is donald trump s doing. we learned that this week from democrats in congress. they announced that shocking news. an investigation by the coronavirus subcommittee fo
dispossession that intelligence officials needed to do a damage assessment. hard to believe a trump ally actually released this letter. we ll bring in a, cnn senior legal analyst. but carrie cordero. was a former counsel to the u.s. assisted ag for national security. good evening to both of, you so, early. we now know that trump had 700 pages of classified documents in his home. the information confirmed this letter released by his own team. that is a lot of information. how damaging is it looking for trump? there are two parts of it. there is what donald trump and his people had in mar-a-lago. 700 pages is a heck of a lot. the highest level classified. we re talking if you look at the permit, the top slice of that to stop secret. they are at the very tip-y top point of this with sci and the segmented client information. i m with s.a.t. which are special access programs. so the most classified classified, but with this letter shows us that donald trump s team knew, they wer
yes, that investigation goes all the way to the top. and the fed all but certain to jack up interest rates this afternoon. but how big a hike will tell us a lot about the inflation problem. as new numbers on housing and what we re buying spell more economic trouble. up first, the details that point a glaring legal spotlight at the former president donald trump. this banner headline courtesy of the washington post, the justice department investigating trump s actions in the january of criminal probe. new york times adding critical detail detailing the fake elector scheme and including references to the president being looped in. post account saying that prosecutors have spent hours asking witnesses about conversations with trump, his lawyers and others in the former president s inner circle. the questions revolve around that fake elector s plot and what instructions trump may or may not have given to his lawyers and advisers. we do know there has been an uptick in gr
stephanie ruhle. and we have breaking news from the january 6th committee this evening. just moments ago, the house analysts subpoenaed the secret service over there missing text messages from january 6th and the day before. and today, all nine january six committee members met with the dhs inspector general. their focus, trying to retrieve that missing information. it s obviously an alarming thing to learn that there were secret service text messages from january 6th itself and the day before that were deleted as part of a device replacement program. we don t know what the facts are and we are going to get to the fact that as to why that happened and we will do whatever we can to retrieve the substance of those texts. and earlier today, the panel made it official. thursday, 8 pm eastern, we ll be there next hearing. that is when they will reveal where trump was and wasn t doing when his supporters were rioting at the capitol. the committee is keeping the possibility of f