the social media chaos machine? the 11th hour, wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. as the former president faces ongoing mar-a-lago investigations, steve bannon is expected to face a new indictment just hours from. now one of that his lawyers says that the onetime trump s trump strategist is on his way to surrender to manhattan s district attorney in the morning. washington post said this case probably similar to ban in federal indictment in a fraud scheme to build trump s border wall. but those charges never stop. trump pardoned abandon on his way out of the white house. bannon of course is now facing sentencing next month after defying a subpoena from the january 6th committee. trump himself may will be considering his next move in his battle with the department of justice over those classified documents he has been keeping down at mar-a-lago. he may want to pay close attention to the latest warning from his former attorney general, bill barr. t
republic. they re all enemies of the state. he is an enemy of the state. you want to know the truth. that comes as trump is contending with a slew of investigations picking up steam. how much will they impact his party this november? that s a big question. season two of the january 6th hearings are upon us. the house select committee is preparing for its end of the year sprint, expected to resume public hearings this month. the justice department presses on with its criminal investigation into the capitol attack. now there s the added suspense in the classified documents probe after the search of mar-a-lago. the washington post is reporting tonight that among the highly sensitive government documents found was one describing a foreign government s nuclear defense capabilities. the washington post sources didn t identify the foreign government in question or say where at mar-a-lago the document was found. other tersmaterials detail top secret operations so close ly gua
[ cheering crowd ] so much pressure. pressure makes diamonds. true. pulisic! he scores! incredible! the news continues i m handing it over to don lemon tonight. this is don lemon tonight, just in cnn, washington what post reporting document foreign government defenses including its nuclear capabilities it was found during the fbi search of mar-a-lago. that is according to sources, now documents about some special access programs are kept under lock and key almost always and secure compartmented information facility not in the former presidents beach resort. and a big question is still unanswered. why did he have a document like this in the first place? a lot more to come on all of this, so stay tuned. and there s more news tonight on something happening for the first time in modern american history. and that is an elected official barred from holding office for allegedly violating a clause in the 14th amendment by participating in what the judge ruled was an insurrection
and, or, importantly, the obverse of that is that it could also indicate what we do not know about a foreign nation. which could give them some form of reassurance, particularly if it s an adversary. so, nuclear capabilities, number of weapons, how many are on alert, maintenance status, training status of their personnel or command and control, there is a whole plethora of kinds of information pertaining to a nuclear offense or defense that could be revealed or information could be inferred by exposure of these documents. this is obviously very valuable top secret information. but what is the value of this top secret information to another country? because, you know, only a certain number of countries have nuclear capabilities. well, that s right. it is a fairly small club of nine or ten, depending on if you include north korea or not, i guess. and as i say, this goes to the very core of our nation s existence. and that is why nations pursue and acquire nuclear weapons. i
new charges against steve bannon this morning, welcome to viewers here in the united states and all around the world. long-time trump adviser and ally steve bannon expected to surrender to prosecutors in new york thursday to face state charges related to his fundraising effort to build a wall along the southern border. bannon allegedly defrauded donors who contributed to a we build the wall campaign. the crowd-funded border wall raised more than $25 million. according to prosecutors bannon falsely told donors that all the money contributed would go toward the construction effort. bannon in a statement calls the indictment phoney charges and a partisan political weaponization of the criminal justice system. federal prosecutors charged bannon with the same alleged crime in 2020 but president trump pardoned bannon as he was leaving office. presidential pardons do not apply to state investigations, of course. cnn s kara scannell is joining us now with the details. what s the la