struggling to answer questions about the president s new student loan relief program and the criticism it is getting both from the left and the right. this hour we ll break down the plan s benefits and the backlash. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. tonight, the justice department is up against a new deadline, under orders to release a redacted version of the mar-a-lago search affidavit within the next 18 hours. let s go right to cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. judge bruce reinhart did not take long to decide on unceiling the document after receiving the justice department s redactions today. he didn t. the judge moving very swiftly. less than four hours after the doj submitted its proposed redactions, the judge agreed to what they were recommending here. the doj has likely been working on this for the past week since the judge ruled they
has retained on much of the republican base. more republicans will be asking themselves if this is the person they want as their nominee in 2024. taken as a whole, it was devastating in the extreme and for the congressional committee tasked with investigating the most devastating attack on the u.s. capitol in centuries, hutchinson s testimony puts their probe at a crossroads with important new questions to answer, especially about the role of white house counsel pat cipollone and what he told the ex-presind top trump officials on january 6th and in the days before and after. vice chair liz cheney reiterating the panel s call for cipollone to testify. white house counsel pat cipollone had significant concerns. it s time for sip loan toe testify on the record. any concerns he has about the institutional interest of his prior offers are outweighed by the need for his testimony. punch bowl news is reporting this, quote, the january 6th select committee is likely to subpoena pat c
illegal from the hearing last thursday and the secret service today confirms that trump was mad when he got in the vehicle because he wanted to go to the capitol. we also know that his role in the fake electors scheme is different knowing about that planned movement, the planned otr to the capitol. lay out for us what you think the new questions are about trump s criminal exposure. you ve done a great job of laying out which looks to me like the operation of a conspiracy. all of this activity that you ve talked about, this is a plan being put into effect or an attempt to put the plan into effect. so from a prosecutorial point of view, if you re talking about charging a conspiracy, no matter what kind of conspiracy it is, one to interfere with congress or on this new evidence of violence, something that now has to be investigated whether trump
charge of posing with a corpse has raised more than $2 million to help scheller. who also, by the way, took to facebook to criticize u.s. political leadership saying among others things, president trump and his family know nothing about sacrifice and calling president obama weak. lieutenant colonel scheller was expected to have a hearing last thursday. it was postponed at the last minute. that hearing now due to take place tomorrow. martha? martha: jonathan, thanks very much. let s bring in lieutenant cornell scheller s parent. stu and kathy, thanks for being here. thank you. thank you. martha: this hearing tomorrow, what do you expect to happen? what have you been told? we re told it s a closed hearing. stewart s attorney have been asked to have an open hearing or aleast allow kathy and i to
undermined the committee s work. the justice department is launching gun trafficking strike forces in five cities. it s part of an effort to reduce spiking violent crime by addressing illegal trafficking and prosecuting offenses that helped put guns in the hands of criminals. attorney general merrick garland saying the effort will include increased enforcement of in so-called supply areas. cities and states where it is normally easier to obtain firearms that are later trafficked into cities with more restrictive gun laws. there is chaos tonight in the circuit attorney s office in st. louis. three murder cases have been dismissed in one week. including one in which the prosecutor reportedly failed to show up in court three times. senior correspondent mike tobin takes a look at the situation tonight from chicago. st. louis metro police have issued a warrant for the arrest of brandon campbell. he was in police custody, charged with murder and scheduled for a hearing last thursday. his c