and then nikki haley is going to deliver a major speech to abortion and then two legal battles surrounding former president donald trump in sudan, a shaky cease-fire as an evacuation is under way to help foreigners. what we know about why tucker carlson and don lemon were forced out. and then we remember harry bwho died president biden announced he s running for re-election he kicked off his bid for a second term with the release of a three-minute video called freedom, and he asked voters to tk give him more time biden also says maga extremists are lining up to cut the social safety net and take away personal liberties the announcement comes four years to the day after he launched his 2020 campaign when i ran for president four years ago, i said we are in the battle for the soul of america, and we still are the question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more or less freedom, more rights or fewer. i know what i want the answer to be, and i think you do,
getting some of our biggest clues yet about the directions special counsel jack smith is taking the politically fraught and complex and unprecedented investigations of an ex president by the justice department. there are major developments in both the january 6 investigation and the probe into the classified documents. we ll get to that in a minute. but we begin with what we know about the sprawling criminal probe into the capitol insurrection and the coup plotted by the ex president and his allies and including those in the administration and in congress. as the new york times reports, jack smith steps us the pace, sorting through a mountain of evidence from the january 6 committee and looking to interview witnesses that did not speak to the congressional panel. from that times report, quote, did former president trump consume detailed information about foreign countries wild in office? how extensively did he seek information about whether voting machines had been tampered
that s what northern greenland is facing every day during this unprecedented global heatwave. the images are incredible, and we ll take you there live. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we begin outfront tonight with garland s clearest signal yet, the attorney general going further than he s ever gone when ask if he will try donald trump for trying to overturn the election. no person is above the law in this country. nothing stops us even a former president? let me say that again, no person is above the law in this country. i can t say it any more clearly than that. you can t say it any more clearly than that. it is a crucial statement, because garland is in charge of the big decision. it is his justice department that will ultimately decide whether to prosecute trump. and the case against the former president, so far laid out by the january 6th select committee, which is gearing up for tomorrow, highly anticipated primetime hearing, has focus
the secret service certainly has more explaining to do. the department of homeland security, which houses the secret service, really needs to take more of a leadership role in helping to manage this response to congress and get to the bottom of what has happened to these messages. i think congressional overseers at this point but they really need to start asking from the secret service and from dhs is whether the steps that they are taking to determine first of all, whether any of these messages are still recover -able. i think i am holding out, don, that there is still a possibility that this agency will be able to turn up more of these messages. let s not forget, the secret service is a law enforcement agency. it is an investigative agency. and a half substantial forensic capabilities. so recovering messages, investigating what happened here, it actually is something that they are quite capable of doing and congress needs to really press in terms of what are the steps the
but this source says that it was january 27th, after the request. what do you think of that discrepancy? they clearly have some explaining to do here. the secret service certainly has nor explaining to do. and the department of homeland security, which houses the secret service, really needs to take more of a leadership role in helping to manage this response to congress and get to the bottom of what has happened to these messages. i think congressional overseers at this point, what they really need to start asking from the secret service and from dhs is what are the steps that they are taking to determine first of all whether any of these messages are still recoverable. i think i am holding out, don, that there is still a possibility that this agency will be able to turn up more of these messages. let s not forget the secret service is a law enforcement agency. it is an investigative agency, and it has substantial forensic capabilities. so recovering messages, investigatin