what is going on? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, will merrick garland indict donald trump? tonight, a major clue into what investigators are focusing on, that is the fake electors, those fake electors from contested states. bennie thompson, the chairman of the january 6th committee, saying his committee is providing the doj with witness transcripts to put up the fraj la fraudulentelectors. they ve included testimony from the chairwoman of the republican national committee, describing a call that she received from the former president and his attorney, john eastman. he turned the call over to mr. eastman, who then proceeded to talk about the importance of the rnc helping the campaign gather these contingent electors in case any of the legal challenges that were ongoing changed the result did you receive a call from andy y biggs of arizona on the morning of january 6th? i did. he asked if i would sign on both to a letter that
engaging in political persecution, but we know a federal judge had to sign off on this search warrant. it wasn t just the fbi acting on its own. and before it was even in front of that judge, the highest levels of the doj including the trump appointed director of the fbi, likely had to approve the action. we also know that the fbi met with trump s legal team in june about white house documents that were being stored at mar-a-lago. so the key question in this mystery now is, what changed between that june meeting and yesterday? it was big enough to compel the fbi to move. cnn s leyla santiago is live outside mar-a-lago. you re learning more about the timeline and what led up to the search. fill us in. it s important to go all the way back to the beginning of the year. january, where we start to see this timeline unfold, when we know that president trump s team was interviewed by the fbi. and that s when they really started to look into what was a lot of records believed to b
This is really an attack or a political opponent thats all it is. Jessica dean, cnn washington thanks for joining us. The news continues here on cnn its tuesday, april 20. Right now on cnn this morning, a hearing to determine whether donald trump violated his gag order yes. Hush money trial set to begin in just hours the senate preparing to take up a foreign aid bill that could save ukraine and potentially sink tiktok and tensions rising on College Campuses as propalestinian protests erupted across the country all right 5 00 a. M. Here in washington alive. Look at New York City on this Tuesday Morning, the sight of all todays political news. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us in just a few hours. The judge in Donald Trumps hush money trial will hear arguments to determine whether the former president violated his gag order in the case prosecutors argue that trump has failed to comply with it at least ten times and just hours before the hearing, tru
two people speaking with the january 6th committee today. one, who would know about cabinet conversations about removing trump from office after the insurrection. the other, a key player in trump s effort to overturn the 2020 election. sources say investigators are meeting with former secretary of state mike pompeo and doug mastriano, the republican nominee for governor in pennsylvania. cnn s sara murray has the details for us. first, what does the committee hope to learn from those two key figures? well, look, pompeo played a pivotal role in the administration. he was a close trump ally but he was also reportedly involved in discussions about the 25th amendment and removing trump from office. that is certainly what the committee is going to want to know from pompeo. when it comes to mastriano, they may have wanted to learn a lot
we have a subpoena that listed a number of documents that he needed to produce for us. so i would say before we engage mr. bannon at all, he will have to comply with that subpoena. that has not happened yet. now, it remains to be seen if bannon complies for his chaim to testify is a stunt to mock the whole process as the justice department alleges. bannon was a key player in trump s claim to power. according to newly published audio, bannon had insight into trump s plan for election tay. here is steve bannon speaking to so-called associates three days before the actual election. what trump s going to do is declare victory. he s going to declare victory, and he s just going to say he won.