holmes and elliot williams. let s start with this bizarre. it s a resort. donald trump lives a the a resort with a swimming pool. the pool is drained. waters flood into the server room and prosecutors get suspicious because they have had reason to be suspicious about moving documents. the same maintenance worker who drained the pool was part of another incident. an interesting story that raises serious questions about obstruction you have most of the facts correct. it flooded this area where footage was kept. at this point, there s no indication this was intentional. it does not appear the footage damaged. this video has been a key piece of evidence in it this investigation. there s been requests, subpoenas for the surveillance footage as investigators look at questions of whether there has been effort to move potentially even hide boxes of documents. we know before the grand jury, witnesses, including the head of
one thing that makes about this pool being graindrained, ae surveillance video wasn t damaged, but the video has been so key. so about a year ago doj subpoenas surveillance video from mar-a-lago. and then the fbi executes a search warrant at mar-a-lago. and then they also issue another subpoena for the surveillance footage. they want to see what is going on with the classified documents at mrl dar-a-lago. anyone trying to move them or obstruct the investigation. and in october our reporting is that the mar-a-lago pool is drained and there is a flood in the server room and then subsequently the justice department tells the trump organization, which handles the surveillance foot think at at mar-a-lago to preserve additional surveillance footage. and we know witnesses before the grand jury have been asked about any efforts to tamper with the surveillance footage. and investigators sleerly have questions about whether they
an explosion destroys a dam with devastating flooding and now thousands of people are being evacuated as ukraine and russia blame each other for the apparent an damage. and then a flood of a different kind raising more questions about the legaldamage. and then a flood of a different kind raising more questions about the legal enveloping donald trump. how the drained pool and flooded server room could play into the investigation of trump s handling of classified documents as a witness prepares to go before a xwgrand jury meeting i florida. and prince harry is fighting two legal battles. what he was grilled about during cross-examination in the uk. and the case here in the united states that you might not have heard about yet.
server room at trump s mar-a-lago, the same servers storing the security surveillance video from trump s resort. this as mr. trump s lawyers meet with justice department officials today. then, come on in, the water s fine. the 2024 race set to grow by three more candidates as governor nikki haley lands her sharpest blow yet on the republican front runners. plus military fighter jets going super sonic when a private plane doesn t respond while flying near the nation s capitol. investigators are trying to figure out what went so horribly wrong. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper, apologies for my voice. we start today with the law and justice lead and serious questions as to whether donald trump could face his first federal indictment ever. today, lawyers for the former president met with justice department officials here in washington for 90 minutes, a possible sign that special counsel jack smith s
months at least four attempts of poisoning russian journalists, all of them women, which carries also an additional terror factor because, obviously, if you go after women, that means you have no boundaries. so, i think that s part of the messaging that there are no boundaries, and the west should fear russia more. wow, unbelievable. thank you very much, as always, for sharing all of this. and, next, a cnn exclusive. we are now learning about a flood in the server room at mar-a-lago, the server like the computer server, the same room where security surveillance logs are kept. and a former member of trump s legal team who testified before the grand jury investigating trump s handling of the classified documents will be my guest next. plus, the republican governor who is not afraid to take on trump with a message tonight for his own party. if republicans nominate him, then we re saying a vote for him in the primary is effectively a vote for joe biden. exclusive new images tonig