and members of his inner-most circle. we re talking about the slates of fake electors set up in battleground states. they set up as the spark for the rest of the plan as conceived by john eastman. from the very beginning from when the plan was first conceived days after the november election, attorneys for the trump campaign were well aware of the fact that their plan for slates of fake electors was how should we put it fake. the new york times reported on emails from trump lawyers that say this, quote, we would just be sending in fake electoral votes to pence so someone in congress can make an objection when they start counting votes and start arguing that the they need to be counted. he wrote that on december 8, 2020 in an email to boris epshteyn, an advisor for the trump campaign. in a followup email, the same guy, mr. will len chick wrote that alternative votes is probably a better term, a better word than fake votes. he added a smiley face emoji. the plan quickly g
we need to take some action because there should be no other child that should suffer the way my son and all the other parents here have lost their children. we need to get that bill passed. the parents of tyre nichols calling for action as their son is laid to rest. we ll have much more from yesterday s service and the push to pass police reform. plus president joe biden and house leader kevin mccarthy take the first step to finding common ground on the debt ceiling. and also ahead, another day, another scandalous headline for one george santos. this one involves the fbi. we ll tell you what the feds are investigating. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, february 2nd, ground-hog day. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with the investigation into president joe biden s mishandling of classified documents in another consensual search of one of the president s homes by the fbi. a personal attorney f
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good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, what is the doj waiting for? they re silent on whether it will in the trump mar-a-lago investigation. and this comes as we re learning that the documents seized from trump included, by the way, hundreds of documents, but it included a foreign government s nuclear capabilities according to a report in the washington post. that kind of information, a country s nuclear capabilities, is closely guarded, many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about it. and yet, here s where some of the documents were last month. look at your screen there, which you can see in red is just down the hall from where the members go, the outdoor dining area, the members part of the club, and all the guests go through, all the wedding pictures that trump takes every weekend. all that is going on next to documents of a country s nuclear program. it took more than a year for the government to get these documents back. that includ
capabilities seized at mar-a-lago. the washington post reports that one of the highly classified documents found in the fbi search last month described a foreign government s nuclear defenses writing, quote, some of the seized documents detailed top secret u.s. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. only the president some members of his cabinet or a near cabinet level official could authorize other government officials to no details of these special access prog programs holding dozens of classified documents in an unsecured location months in many cases after he was asked to return them. we know it s a higher level of sensitivity and does that level of sensitivity increase the likelihood that the doj charges, a legal standard here? more charges, higher charges? more likely to charge given sensitivity? good morning. i m glad to be with all of you. i think that is probably the case. you know? the document