group after the group s founder was given the steepest penalty yet among those charged in the insurrection. and stunning revelations from newly unearthed fbi documents revealing a plot to kill queen elizabeth back in the 80s while she was here in the u.s. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. two more sentences are being handed down today for members of the oath keepers, a far right extremist group for their role in the january 6th capitol attack. one of them is army veteran jessica watkins. she was just sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison. sentencing for the other member, kenneth hairalson, is happening this very hour. it all comes one day after the group s founder stewart rhodes was hit with the most severe sentence yet tied to the capitol insurrection, with the judge describing him as an ongoing threat to democracy, the unrepentant rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison. evan, starting with you h
on, and sat down. you know the breaking news beckons. yeah when, the breaking news beckons. thank you, victor, i ll see you tomorrow. this is don lemon tonight, and won t be long now, because it s got to happen before midnight, any minute now we re expecting the doj s response to team trump s request for a special master to drop. and this is not just some routine paperwork, it s going to get a lot here. it s gonna be a, doozy so you want to stay tuned. again, it s supposed to happen before midnight, so it s supposed to happen in the hours that were on. now the justice department got special permission from the judge to submit an extra long response, up to 40 pages, twice as long as a usual 20-page lemon. the doj says they need to quote, adequately address the legal and factual issues raised by trump s filings. what is in those 40 something pages? we should know soon. but those factual issues, it certainly sounds intriguing, doesn t it? so remember, this is all about tru
look in the storage records and then they find these three files, three classified documents, in trump s desk drawer. so certainly laying out the case that this was justified. they also on this issue because this is really about whether a special master and third party can review these documents, they re saying these aren t trump s documents to review, they belong to the american people. there is no executive privilege. trump never asserted executive privilege at any point along the process until the search warrant was executed. they re saying that, you know, to permit a special master to get involved at this point could cause unnecessary significant harm because there s also a you have the intelligence agencies to see what was in these documents and whether there is any potential harm to sources and methods. thank you for helping us just begin to understand what s in here. a lot that we did not know yesterday at this time. thank you so much. and joining us now is cnn
Gives the house the sole power of impeachment and the power to determine its own rules. When president nixon, during the time he was going to be impeached, the chairman of the Rules Committee, chairman madden, actually spoke on house floor and announced there would be a rule governing how that proceeding would move forward. When the clinton articles of impeachment were brought forward, there was a unanimous consent request to kind of govern how we conducted ourselves. And im not sure how likely it would be that we would get a unanimous consent request. I would like to ask unanimous consent without objection to enter into the record a letter sent to the chairman of the Judiciary Committee signed by 70 republican members including kevin mccarthy, the republican leader, and basically, and let me read the key lines here, we will avail ourselves of every parliamentary tool available to us on the committee and house floor, in other words to try to delay and make this process as
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impossible. and they re locked. let s talk about this plane, because that will be the difference. a lot of planes have different designs. this plane, look at the altitude and speed of this plane. this thing was still moving along pretty good when all of this happened, but it came down to about 700 feet. there you don t really have a pressure issue and you ve already started equalizing the cabin in a way that maybe there is no real pressure on the door. estimated speed, 170, 200 miles an hour. something like that. still there will be a question, mechanical issues or something that allowed it to happen. you re saying to be able to do this likely at 700 feet or possible, but not at 37,000 feet. exactly. given pressure and other exactly. if the door were mechanically unlocked, but they are unlocked. the question is, how did it become unlocked anyway. that s still pretty darn dangerous at 700 feet and what the passengers had to go through. you would assume there are other failsa