Investigation looked into the efforts by the former president and his allies to subvert Election Results in seven states in which President Biden won in 2020. One state is georgia, where biden had a win in 2020 british trump refused to accept the result and he and his allies engaged in a number of plots to overturn bidens win. Some of these actions were so aggressive they drew attention of the Fulton County District Attorney, who launched her own program 2021. A grand jury has been convened and the former president could face more indictments in the weeks to come. What exactly did trump and his allies do in georgia . What charges they face. We will lay out the entire investigation and piece together what we know about the campaigns, trumps private calls , a major data breach and the plot to subvert the electoral college. Reporter prosecutors in georgia have open a criminal investigation. Reporter investigation into former President Trump because it is generally phone call to the georgi
this is american voices. as the battle of control of congress heats up before the 2024 election, republicans are showing us how they plan to governor govern if they win. case in point, they re attacking civil rights under the guise of military readiness. on thursday, the house passed a new defense spending bill, going after anything they deem as quote, woke. republican amendments to the bill include ending diversity training, limiting health care for trans service members, that bill would also rollback a pentagon policy covering travel expenses for military members. who must now travel out of state for abortion access, following the overturn of roe v. wade. this legislation made possible by a far-right faction of the house that demanded these controversial amendments to negotiations with house speaker kevin mccarthy. and this week could be a preview of the battle over government spending this fall. the new york times writes quote, mccarthy s to the right is a gambl
is a u.s. president above the law? the lead starts right now. donald trump s day in court, as his legal team argues by the former president cannot be prosecuted, even if his actions were criminal. site i have skepticism from the judges will not decide how this case proceeds. six days before the crucial contest in iowa. a new cnn poll from another key primary state, chose a candidate gaining ground on the gop front runner. the defense secretary, treated for prostate cancer. the pentagon has been pressed on his hospital status. or the president didn t know one of his top cabinet members was in the hospital, and couldn t do his job. welcome to the lead. on pamela brown, in for jake tapper. getting ready for tomorrow s cnn republican presidential debate. we start today with our law and justice lead. donald trump, in a federal courtroom. lawyers say that he should be immune from facing charges for any alleged crimes that he committed while in office. the three appeals court
has an audio recording of former president trump in 2021 seemingly admitting, again, on tape, that he took a classified document with him when he left the white house, a classified document allegedly detailing plans of how the u.s. could attack iran. that document. well tonight, we have new reporting that trump s lawyers do not know where the document is. they are unable to find the war plans trump may have been casually waving around at his new jersey golf club two years ago. everybody check your golf carts, ask your caddies! anyone see stray plans for war in iran? no. we are going to talk about that a little bit later tonight. but we also have some big news in one of the other big trump investigations. it came out of fulton county, georgia where district attorney fani willis is investigating trump s effort to overturn the 2020 election results. let me back up first. do you remember this story from february about how trump s campaign hired a team of researchers to prove thei
for joining us this hour. so they can t find the document. we are learning more about this week s blockbuster reporting that special counsel jack smith has an audio recording of former president trump in 2021 seemingly admitting again, on tape that he took a classified document with him when he left the white house, a classified document allegedly detailing plans of how the u.s. could attack. iran that document. well tonight, we have new reporting that trump s lawyers do not know where the document is. they are unable to find the war plans trump may have been casually waving around at his new jersey golf club two years ago. everybody check your golf carts, ask your caddies! anyone see stray plans for war in iran? no. we are going to talk about that a little bit later tonight. but we also had some big news in one of the other big trump investigations. it came out of fulton county, georgia where district attorney fani willis is investigating trump s effort to overturn the 2020