Significant, this evidence linking members of trumps legal team, to the breach of a Voting System there. Jessica, these Text Messages add to a growing body of evidence that links Donald Trumps legal team to this Voting System breach here in georgia that happened on january 7th, 2021. More specifically, it links them to this effort to secure written invitation from a local election official there, essentially allowing them, in their minds, to speenter the Election Office and no election official is allowed to let anyone have access to Voting Systems. But trumps team and lawyers were trying to convince this election official to provide a letter of invitation. And these Text Messages show us how they were involved in the planning, and how down from Rudy Giuliani to sidney powell, how they were kept in the loop on the state level as they worked to secure this Written Letter of invitation, and ultimately access to the Voting System there is in coffee county. This is 200 miles south of downt
Im jim acosta. Welcome. Donald trump and the Special Counsel and the third indictment. Trump lawyers are now hitting back at a Monday Deadline Set by the judge overseeing his Election Interference Case arguing they should have until thursday to respond to the Special Counsels request for a protective court order. Jack smith is firing back telling the judge the delay is unnecessary. Whats all this about . The Special Counsel seeking to stop Defense Lawyers from sharing with trump copies of sensitive evidence pointing to this social media saying if you go after me, im coming after you. He is slamming the Special Counsel and Alayna Treene is there. He was really going after Special Counsel jack smith and engaging in more of this volatile rhetoric that is obviously now going to be a matter in his case here in washington. What more can you tell us . Reporter well, jim, i think that despite that court filing from the Special Counsel, jack smith and other prosecutor, i think you can anticipat
a crisis with no ordinary solution because this was no ordinary storm. look at the staggering scale of destruction. complicating hundreds of rescue efforts. it laid waste to entire towns, robbing people of their homes and livelihoods. some residents are now beginning to pick up the pieces. others have no pieces left to pick up. i just returned from a boat ride with the cageous navy where i saw some of the destruction for myself. this is what ian did to matt lachey in lee county where most of the deaths occurred so far. in matlacha. they find one of your neighbors? yeah. yeah. they found, like, i think three bodies so far in the water. i know there s more. cnn s nadia romero is in arcadia. we begin with brian todd in naples. officials said it could take months to recover. we have seen evidence all day long from our boat ride to where you are right now. where do things stand today where you are? jim, we re going to show you more evidence of why it s going to take so lon
closed captioning brought to you by feel away optimum, enhanced calming for cats. bad news for lindsey graham and his attempts to dodge a subpoena to appear before the fulton county special grand jury. the one investigating republican efforts to overturn the election results in georgia. a federal judge refusing to put a hold on her ruling at the senator has got to appear. we are getting new information about concerns from inside the biden white house and the intelligence community about classified information taken to mar-a-lago. legal analyst and former federal prosecutor elliot williams, visiting professor of american law university, the author of how to think like a lawyer. and joining us, palm beach county state attorney dave ehrenberg. nice to see you here, we ve got a law firm spread happening right now. who are we billing for this hour? we don t know, but look, it s just a week ago today that we learned from the court that trump was keeping top-secret, highly clas
gulf of mexico and in the southern u.s. live, from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber the biden white house is officially hands-off regarding the fbi search of donald trump s mar-a-lago search. it turned up 11 sets of classified materials, including some with the highest secrecy privately some white how to officials admit they are worried about what other sensitive documents might be out there. court documents unsealed in relation to the search and into the depths of potential legal jeopardy the former president and his allies could be facing. cnn s jessica schneider has our report. reporter: new information related to documents of the mar- a-lago search sharpening the focus on former president trump as a possible subject of a criminal probe. the application for the search warrant, unsealed thursday, that reveals that among the crimes the doj is investigating includes the willful retention of national defense information. language that could point to t