it s 4:00 in the east. a stunning comprehensive brand new piece of reporting that really amounts to a first drafrt of history for merrick garland s justice department a piece of reporting that answers questions we ve been asking for years now questions that have dogged doj for many many months why did it take so long for d.o.j. to investigate? the first formal step into probing the campaign to overturn the 2020 election. the criminal inquiry now into the fate of electors did not take place until april 2022 more than a area after the insurrection and well after the january 6th select committee had begun to uncover a complex multipronged plot and democracy with donald trump in the driver s seat. the washington post is reporting in the immediate aftermath of the january 6th insurrection, acting u.s. attorney michael sherwin, senior justice department officials and paul abbate quashed a plan in the u.s. attorney s office to directly investigate trump associates for any links to
welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. the indictment of former president donald trump marks the first time in history a former president has faced federal charges. this is the second indictment for the former president, who was criminally charged by a manhattan grand jury in march on more than 30 counts of business fraud. now facing 37 federal charges relating to classified documents from his time in office that were uncovered by federal agents. a special counsel has been investigating this case since november of last year. he s pleaded not guilty to all charges against him. what makes the situation even more extraordinary is that mr. trump is also the current front-runner in the republican party for the 2024 election, which means he could be taking on president joe biden, while a special counsel appointed by the attorney general is working to convict him. trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. over the next hour, our pamela brown lays out everything we know
the indictment of former president donald trump marks the first time in history that a former president has faced federal charges. this is now the second indictment for the former president, who was criminally charged by a manhattan grand jury in march on more than 30 counts of business fraud. now he s facing 37 federal charges relating to classified documents from his time in office that were uncovered by federal agents. a special counsel has been investigating this case since november of last year. he s pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. what makes the situation, though, even more extraordinary is that mr. trump is also the current front-runner in the republican party for the 2024 election, which means he could be taking on president joe biden while the special counsel appointed by the attorney general is working to convict him. trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. over the next hour, our pamela brown lays out everything we know about this case and ta
unusual newsday, which may b in part a function of th holiday? but i don t really think, so i think it s just turning out to be an unusual newsday. first, of all i should mention that this remarkable search an rescue operation is stil underway right now about 370 miles off the coas of newfoundland in the north atlantic a submarine is an autonomous self supporting undersea vessel. a submersible, as opposed to a submarine, is a vessel tha also goes under the water bu it is not autonomous it has the use either anothe ship or a surface platform o some kind as a home base t which it is based. the vehicle that has been lost that they are looking for righ now, is a submersible. the ship from which it launche lost contact with it yesterday about an hour and 45 minutes after it started a dive. the dive was supposed to b about two and a half hours down, three hours on the bottom of the ocean, and then another tw hours back so it was about eight hour beneath the waves but about an hour