in the key 2024 battle ground state of iowa. he has an event soon putting his presidential ambitions very much in the spotlight just days before donald trump campaigns in the state. this as trump has been invited to appear before a grand jury investigating his alleged role in covering up hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. the move signaling a decision whether to charge trump may happen soon. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf f bblitzer. you re the situation room. we begin with a historic collapse of a california bank. u.s. stock prices sliding amid questions about whether this is an isolated case or a sign of things to come. cnn s chief white house correspondent phil mattingly is following the story for us along with mark and our own matt edgen matt, first to you, how serious is this bank collapse? reporter: stunning collapse. silicon valley bank may not be a household name but it has more than $200 bil
mystery during the recent uptick in activity from the justice department is what happened to mark meadows? now we know the answer. the answer is that he has responded. he s complied with a subpoena from the justice department as part of the january 6th investigation. now, this makes him the highest ranking trump official to comply with a subpoena as part of this criminal investigation, and, you know, in addition to him, we also know that ben williamson, one of his aides, a very top aide of mark meadows has also been subpoenaed as part of this big push we recently reported more than 30 subpoenas that went out to people in the trump orbit. with mark meadows, we know he s provided, you know, all of the materials he had given to the january 6th, the house committee that is investigating january 6th. that s thousands of emails and text messages from the period that, you know, covers everything from before the election to up to obviously january 20th. so that s an important window
that releasing their full reasons for searching mar-a-lago would cause, and i quote, significant and irreparable damage. the justice department now urging a judge not to unseal the affidavit that justified the fbi search over the mar-a-lago home. a document, according to the d.o.j., that serves as a road map to the ongoing investigation including who federal investigators are talking to. saying that it includes, and i want to quote this one, highly sensitive information about witnesses, including witnesses interviewed by the government. that is, witnesses, not witness, witnesses, plural. according to the former chief of the justice department s counter intelligence section who oversaw the investigation of hillary clinton s handling of classified documents, that plural, witnesses, means multiple people told tell doj there was still classified information at mar-a-lago. multiple people. i m going to speak to david in a moment. the justice department also is arguing that redacti
ranking trump official known to have responded to a subpoena in the federal investigation. back with me now, andrew mccabe, ellie and gloria boringer. ellie, trump has been counsel to cut contact with meadows. if his former chief of staff feels the heat from any possible legal exposure, is there a chance that he could become more corporative with the investigators in the future? absolutely, don. that s how and why people flip. look, if you gave me as a prosecutor, you said you can have any person s cooperation, full and truthful cooperation in this whole matter, i choose mark meadows. he s perfectly situated if he comes fully clean to be the ideal cooperator. it s important to know he s not there yet. this shows him part of the way. he s only turned over the same ati tells to the committee. he stopped cooperation. that s not full cooperation and don, in the federal system as andy knows, we don t do partial cooperation. you re fully in, fully truthful,
telling gloria boringer, if they want to play hard ball, we know how to play hard ball. just how significant is this development? a confirmed target. and how much trouble could it mean for donald trump? reporter: well, it s significant because rudy giuliani is the closest adviser to the former president who has been called a target that we know of in any of the investigations surrounding former president trump. and it seems pretty clear from these letters and calls that the district attorney s office made, that she is looking at potentially issuing multiple indictments in her georgia investigation. we don t know if one of them could be an indictment. former president. we know they have been interested in rudy giuliani because he appeared multiple times before georgia lawmakers in the wake of 2020 election, and he spread conspiracies in the wake of the 2020 election. what we don t know is how many information he could provide