Permission from Judge Chutkan Jack Smith released a filing with never before seen evidence he has compiled against Donald Trump in his investigation of the federal Election Interference Case. It begins with the defense of Jack Smiths entire case in light of the supreme courts immunity decision which divides official acts from private acts, giving president s immunity for official ones. It reads in part, quote, the defendant asserts that he is immune from prosecution for his criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 president ial election, because he claims it entailed official conduct. Not so. Although the defendant was the incumbent president during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one. This motion provides a comprehensive account of the defendants private criminal conduct. This quote comprehensive account of Donald Trumps criminal conduct is 165 pages long. Its here on our desk, we just got it a few minutes ago. Fortunately for us we have an entire team of
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happening now, breaking news. kevin mccarthy trying to seize the momentum right now in the fight for the speakership. the house is preparing to return to session at 10:00 p.m. eastern tonight, after two very dramatic votes saw the republican leader flip more than a dozen hardliner holdouts coming up just short of a majority. the country marks the second anniversary of the january 6th insur re insur insurrection. president biden honoring the defenders of democracy today, including several police officers brutally attacked while holding off the mob at the capitol. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s get to the breaking news. the momentum in the speaker s race swinging heavily toward house republican leader kevin mccarthy. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju is joining us live from capitol hill. i understand you are getting new understand.
attorney to oversee the review of the evidence confisicated from his home. so walk us through this heavily redacted affidavit. ned reeka, good afternoon to you. it was heavily redacted, but you know what? there was a lot of stuff we got to see, which is great because this is such an important investigation. transparency is critical. so this was what the fbi was telling the judge why they needed to do a historic search of the former president s home down in florida. they were making the case that basically classified documents had been found before and there might be more to come. take a look at these numbers. this is what they said were recovered from mar-a-lago earlier this year. 67 confidential documents, 92 secret. and going in order from the least classified to most, 25 top secret. and all the experts have said that it s those 25 top secret documents that really made their skin crawl because of what else was in that affidavit. that affidavit explained specifically some
reportedly discussing among themselves about using their own constitutional power to stop the president. what those who talked already have said to the committee and what others might say, we just don t know, but what they could say given the positions they held and what they were privy to is formidable. they include secretary of state mike pompeo, who we first reported last night is expected to sit down with the house select committee, perhaps as soon as this week. also former treasury secretary steven mnuchin, who we learned today has already been interviewed by the committee. negotiations are underway with the former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, for a sitdown with him. and finally there s former acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney, who we spoke with earlier this week on the program. he was spotted on his way out, after speaking with the committee today. mulvaney, as you know, was serving as envoy to northern ireland when the attack happene