another official who prosecutors in the special counsel s election probe have spoken to, details and what it could suggest. republican lawmakers grill the republican appointed registered republican fbi director, is there evidence for their allegations? i will ask the republican former us attorney who recommended them for the job, chris christie joins us. later, ray epis, january 6th protester in hiding after right wing media painted him as a plant. the lawsuit they just filed against fox news. good evening, the breaking news, new word another top state election official has spoken with prosecutors in connection with the former president s efforts to overturn the eleck. she is joselyn benson, michigan secretary of state, she joins her georgia counterpart, brad raffensperger, former arizona republican lawmakerer rusty bowers and two republican officials in talking to jack smith s team. what have you learned about secretary of state benson s interview with jack smith? well
fox news searched for a scapegoat to blame other than donald trump or the republican party. eventually they turned on one of their own. epps is living in hiding after receiving death threats. a look at how he got to this point, he talked to my 60-minutes colleague bill whittaker, here is clip from that report. what was the role of ray epps in the chaos of january 6th? the theory, epps, former member oath keepers was a former member bubbled up from a right wing news site called revival news, run by a former trump supporters, and landed on fox news prime time. according to a new investigation from revolver, epps may have lead the breach team that first entered the capitol. reporter: the conspiracy theory made its way to capitol hill. it is not the proud boys who
suspicion is this may be the latest example of that. matthew chance, thank you. tomorrow morning the commander of the u.s. coast guard will face tough questions about a damming report on sexual assault at the coast guard academy. the report was secret for years until cnn started asking questions, the hearing, a direct result of cnn s investigation. chief investigative coordinator pamela brown broke the story first and talks tonight to assault survivor whose said the coast guard s culture has not changed. new questions about the secret damming report called operation failed anchor. it reveals history of substantiated sexual abuse, including rapes at the coast guard academy. according to documents viewed exclusively by cnn. the assaults were treated as minor misconduct by coast guard command, and were usually covered up. victims were often punished. the investigation ran from 2014 to 2019, but only reviewed sexual assaults from the late
you know, over six months to get ready. that may be enough. but the person, the best position to make the judgment is judge canon, and i am confident she will make the right decision. do you think the former president is trying to run out the clock? of course he is. no doubt about it. look, his fantasy situation is that this doesn t go to trial ever before the election, that somehow he gets reelected president, and then they won t be able to try him while he is in the white house. and then that will get delayed another four years, he will be 82 and they may just, you know, he hopes walk away. how concerned do you think he should be about the special counsel, indicted again in the 2020 election case? he should be concerned because when you look at it from the report, the depth of the investigation that is being done, it will be taken very seriously and methodically. whenever that happens you have to be on guard. i think he should be concerned about the case now. the allegation
in the environment with them. car wn said she was hoping for change when the coastguard reopened her case, and dozens of others with operation faled anchor, but that didn t happen. you therewas no here is what the results were, and this is what we are doing about it, and this is the coast guard s way forward. reporter: instead, officials kept the problem secret for years, a course telling cnn, the report was very centrally controlled, similar to how classified report would be treated. they only briefed congress last month after cnn started asking questions. now senators are demanding answers. we are looking for accountability, we want to know what steps have been taken to make sure this never happens again. this episode is probably the shameful and most disgrisful cover up of sexual assault i have seen in the united states military ever. of dozens of old sexual assault cases examined, only one person was ever prosecuted. the charge against him was dismissed when a court