more than 100 classified documents found in the search of mar-a-lago, which would also mean trump s legal team could see them. which sounds like a page right out of the trump playbook. and you know what that page is, it s delay, delay, delay. that s really all this is. you want to put things into perspective? it s just delay, push it further down the road. and then also, you know, sent a fund raising letters to help so that he could raise money off of all of this. that s just, that s what s happening. and he s hoping that the court will take beside. a conservative majority court courtesy of, of course, the former president himself. a fact is probably top of mind down in mar-a-lago. but you ve got to wonder whether the supreme court, which has ruled against him in earlier cases, actually want anything to do with this. they might not want to touch it with a ten foot pole, amidst the outrage over what a lot of americans see as the politicization of the highest court in the land,
the legal process, the department of justice, local election officials, and a relentless pressure campaign to what he called, an attempt to stop steal. now the fact that nothing had been stolen, details, details it seems. i ll leave you all to decide whether this hearing so far has threaded a needle, or move drone needle. but were seven hearings in, we re learning tonight that january six committees upcoming eight hearing, will now turn to the number one 87. that s 187 minutes where the president of united states was radio silence. i mean crickets. well at least publicly. but what exactly what he s doing for over three hours? i mean after the capitol have been breached, and while he was being attack, officers were valiantly felt to protect members of congress, everyone inside that capital. as witnesses describe the mortal combat, almost medieval like combat, just what was the commander in chief, the one who swore to do this i donald john trump do solemnly swear, reserve,
a busy day today the investigation of the former president and his allies. top of the list, and this is big, cnn learning right now that some members of the trump inner circle or trying to convince him to release surveillance video of fbi agents executing the search warrant at mar-a-lago, the search the turned up 11 sets of classified documents, some marked top secret sci, one of the highest levels of classification. now, we don t know what that surveillance video might show. a source tells cnn aides aren t sure if the former president himself has seen the whole thing, we don t know if it s all just a political plot. that s a safe bet when it comes to the former president, after all. but we do know that they have already seen with the fbi calls an unprecedented number of threats against agents following the mar-a-lago search. that isn t stopping eric trump from teasing a release. you still have these surveillance tape, is that correct? are you allowed to share that with the
learn? does donald trump have a lot more to be worried about tonight? mr. cipollone did appear voluntarily and answer a whole variety of questions. he did not contradict the testimony of other witnesses, and i think we did learn a few things which we will be rolling out in the hearings to come. so, i think it was, you know, a grueling day for all involved, mr. cipollone and the staff and the members. but it was well worth it. well worth it, says committee zoe lofgren on cnn earlier tonight. she did not get into specifics, but she thought cipollone was candid with the panel today and believes that his answers were, quote, honest. congresswoman lofgren did note, quote, some complications when it came to attorney/client privilege belonging to trump. but she said executive privilege was not an issue because the holder of that privilege is in fact president biden. in another interview, she said the former white house counsel never pleaded the fifth. so, what does that mean for
(grandmother) excuse me! (young woman vo) some relationships get better with time. that s why i got a crosstrek. (avo) ninety-six percent of subaru vehicles sold in the last ten years are still on the road. (grandmother) i m so glad you got a subaru. (young woman) i wonder who gave me the idea? (avo) love. it s what makes subaru, subaru. before we go tonight, i just want to take one more look at the devastating flooding in kentucky tonight. at least eight people are known to be dead, the governor saying that he s never seen anything like this in the state. and he fears that the death toll will rise. there is more rain in the forecast. obviously continue to follow the story and the people in that state are in our thoughts, in our first tonight. and in the days ahead. the news continues, i want to hand it over to laura coast and cnn tonight. laura? thank you anderson, those images are devastating. i m so glad we re continue to cover and i hope everyone will be safe. i am le c