thanks for being with us today. nicole s back tomorrow. the beat ari melber starts right now. but not until i set eyes on him. ari, are you there? i m here. thanks for anchoring last night, and i think we all thank you for all the coverage from ukraine. we appreciate it, sir. my pleasure, sir. you have a great show. absolutely. stay safe. welcome to the beat. we have breaking news about recommended indictments in the georgia trump probe. breaking news tonight out of the criminal trump probe in georgia, and it sounds big. i m going to walk it through with you. the grand jury is recommending multiple indictments, and that news tonight is from an on-the-record source. we hear a lot about leaks and sources of anonymous people and the two-source rule. what is breaking news right now is on the record. the head of that georgia grand jury speaking out for the first time, which feeds questions and speculation tonight about who exactly is now being potentially recommended for
announcer: this is cnn breaking news. our breaking news this hour certainly is breaking indeed. the january 6th committee has now released its final report just moments ago. it is here. i want to bring in cnn justice correspondent jessica snyder. jessica, i understand the committee is making very specific recommendations about how law enforcement and also of course legislative bodies ought to proceed now in the wake of this report and their findings. tell us what are you learning? reporter: laura, that s the big take away from this report. so it is 845 pages. the vast majority of that actually incapsulates eight chapters where they out the entire narrative surrounding up to and including january 6th. but the real meat of this is not until page 689, and it lays out about let s see 11 different recommendations this committee is making. i want to highlight a few for people. and laura you were asking before where can people go to actually read this entire report. it is up o
whatever one thinks of that particular president, the fact does congress does not typically question or subpoena presidents. this ain t england. the legislature does not question the president the way you would see in the sessions they hold with the legislature. but tonight the news is that might change. there s solid reporting that the house is eyeing trump himself as the january 6th committee is meeting behind closed doors, weighing what you see here the certainly costly potential clash over trying to make trump testify as well as pursuing an interview with pence. now, going to trump would surely take a subpoena and then a court battle over it. the wall street journal reporting all this. and trump spent his whole career resisting these kinds of moves. we know that. sometimes he prevails. sometimes he loses. there have been court losses that forced him into the taped deposition see here on your screen. that only came after he was forced into that situation. that was also
do those specific words create specific legal jeopardy for donald trump? i m john berman with brianna keilar, and judge bruce reinhart released several procedural court documents used to justify the search of mar-a-lago, providing new details and maybe a sharper focus on the president himself as a potential subject of a criminal probe. this is the document that was released and there is specific information in here about willful retention. in other words, they say he knew he had documents and he knew what they were. so this is all part of the argument over whether to release the affidavit justifying the search of mar-a-lago, prosecutors made the case for secrecy because they say evidence might be destroyed, but the judge set in motion the possibility of releasing a redacted version of the affidavit and that process will kick into gear as soon as next week. and ludicrous, ridiculous, bs, those words and phrases coming from some former trump senior officials who are scoffing
conversation to the prosecutor indirectly by having this entire conversation recorded. and what she does do is says what the evidence was before the grand jury, which the first thing was to apply the raffensperger tape. exactly. you and nick are zeroing in on something. we could sit around for years and have intellectual news, legal conversations. this is the grand jury. this body of evidence plus the d.a. is what leads to indictments. this could very well be a step on the way to the first ever indictment of a former president of the united states. correct, yes. and the material you referenced, i ll let you respond, reading from the foreperson says, quote, we heard a lot of recordings of president trump on the phone. it s amazing how many hours of footage you can find of that man on the phone. some of these that were privately recorded by people or a staffer. or by staff. this is her view of what the d.a. was presenting through their staff. the d.a. appears to be