deepens. the president of belarus tonight claiming yevgeny prigozhin who led the rebellion against putin has returned to russian. where s the proof? this as a raid of prigozhin s house have turned off gold bars, weapons, a collection of wigs, and a giant stuffed alligator. a special report on that. and a subpoena tonight. the office of the arizona secretary of state confirms to out front they ve been subpoenaed in the investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the election. the arizona secretary of state will be out front. and a story you ll see first here on out front, a dangerous skin rotting drug taking over the streets leaving users with open wound and amputated limpbes. it s devastating across the country and we have a special report on the epidemic this hour. let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight the mystery deepening. where is yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of the armed rebellion against putin? in a rare press conference today the
president. nbc news has no exclusively obtained a copy of ex homeland security aide miles taylor s upcoming book, in which he accounts and national security adviser john bolton. during that meeting, then white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders and heard bolton s office, told him that trump just shared classified information to reporters, while discussing the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. sanders told bolton that the president had picked up documents relating to intelligence on khashoggi s death, and displayed the. the reporters were unlikely to have been able to read the text. according to the book, bolton gassed at first, but breathed a sigh of relief when sanders told him that there have been no cameras in the room. but as taylor writes, quote, we were all disturbed by the laps in political and poor protection of classified information. that new information comes on the heels of another revelation made by an ex trump official on this very network last
as where the republican contenders are campaigning today. good morning. welcome to way too early on this thursday, july 6th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we re learning new details this morning about the search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago golf club carried out by federal agents last year after a less redacted version of the search warrant affidavit was made public late yesterday. the newly public portions of of the document reveal that the federal agents investigating trump s connection to classified materials told the judge who signed the search warrant that they were concerned the location of some of the documents were unknown. the affidavit indicates that justice department officials became concerned after viewing security camera video from mar-a-lago that they had obtained from trump s company. the affidavit reveals the video showed a trump employee since identified as aide and former white house valet walt nauta moving
and that s in large part because ron desantis, who was initially hyped up as the candidate has seen his poll numbers tank. just look at the polling averages since the start of this calendar year. desantis should come with its own slide whistle. he s almost 30 points behind trump and the average of the national poll. even a top official at a pro-desantis superpact recently conceded his campaign has been a bust so far. right now in national polling we are way behind. to be blunt and honest, it s an uphill battle. i don t think it s a winnable battle but clearly donald trump is the runaway front-runner in the first four states which matter tremendously. polls are tighter. we re clearly still down. we have work to do and wood to chop. it does seem like a bad sign when one of your top surrogates has to admit that but it s true at least and a lot of reasons the desantis campaign is doing so poorly. one reason is what some are calling a lack of charisma which seems to be alienat
culpability for the first time. in this new legally binding document cites evidence to show why trump must, they say, legally cooperate. setting deadlines for evidence, november 4th. deadlines for testifying, november 14th. and this new material puts trump at the center of the coup plot to overturn the election. the committee writing that he maliciously disseminated false allegations of voter fraud, corrupted the justice department, ran the effort to transmit false electoral certificates, that may yet yield more indictments. it s basically saying he committed crimes, and pressured pence to help the coup even though according to the committee, trump knew at the time in advance that the pence plot was illegal. and then of course summoning supporters who trump knew were armed, according to the committee s investigation to that d.c. rally, and the storming of the capitol. now, what happens if you defy a subpoena like this. trump aide steve bannon found out today. it s a coinciden