discretion. question? reporter: just a non-topic question. what do these indictments actually do i have an on-topic as well. of course. reporter: what does these do to stop these and merrick garland saying david weiss, the u.s. attorney in delaware, a trump appointee held over to handle this case, had total authorities on prosecutions and never requested the special counsel. clearly didn t think it was necessary and had more authority than that. barbara, is that a fair summation? it is. i think one thing that s really important merrick garland just said there, he actually had more authority than a special counsel has. he gave him complete authority. a special counsel is subject to review by the attorney general who may overrule a special counsel if he believes that his recommendations are outside the norm of the justice department authority. hear i heard him say he had
released 36 hours ago. one issue that they re finding that is getting a lot of attention is how political the military has become. they asked the question do you have a decreased confidence in military due to politization and 34% said a great deal. how do you interpret that? i m worried about it. we re behind in our recruiting levels. there is a crisis in confidence in many institutions in the united states. and our military shouldn t be used as a place for social experiments. its job is to fight and win wars. to deter enemies from attacking the united states and compromising our interests. so they need to stay on task, on topic, and not spend too much time on these types of other societal issues. bill: where do you think they ve gone that they shouldn t? we can only do so much education on issues outside the basics of what soldiers ought to
capitol after his speech on the ellipse. sources tell cnn the committee expects to interview several more secret service agents as well. let s talk more about this with renato mariotti, host of podcast on topic. so good to see you. absolutely. good to be here, fred. great. let s begin with the secret service interviews and the documents. so, what specifically does the committee want? the committee wants to see the traffic between the skecret service when i say traffic, communications traffic, what they were saying to each other to validate and corroborate some of the testimony we heard, for example, from cassidy hutchinson that was disputed off the record by unnamed secret service agents, for example, but there s been no testimony under oath. so i think that s what they re really looking for more than anything. right. and remember, a lot of their cell phone communication, the
that from you. but a new analysis fromanalys the center for immigration studies looked more deeply intil it. we can tell you the results ofue this study exclusively tonight. ciass found that illegal immigrants in texas, fore example, quote, appear to be convicted of crimes such a as homicide, sexual assault and kidnapping at higher rates than the state average. e for example, in one recentr ills year, the homicide conviction rate for illegals in texas was three point three per one hundred thousand. that was much higher it than the state s overall rate, which. is two point nine . so these are meaningful numbers. r de and they demolished the talking point that s often thrown atmoli you bring up thisher on topic. john kennedy was the lead researcher on this for the center for immigrationthankr studies. he joins us tonight.omin john , thanks so mucg onh for coming on . how diw d you find these numbers which have been hidden? well, a number of studies had been done by first-day libert
exotic i m not sure the former president even understands what he is trying to claim in federal court. but this is where we are now, and it really fills in a lot of the timeline on how this has gone. unprecedented for sure. the letter went out in may from the national archives and we now know that the doj first visited mar-a-lago a month later, as you said, in june. evan perez, katelyn polantz, thank you for braying it down. let s discuss with a former prosecutor who hosts the on topic podcast. as you heard john solomon, the man who released the letter, is an ally of former president trump s. on the surface it does appear to be incriminating. is there a way to interpret how making this letter public is helpful to trump? i don t see how it is. in letter demonstrates that trump s team had ample notice,