they have failed in that plays from adam schiff using a position of the intel chair, lying to the american public again and again. swalwell, you all know does not or should not have the responsibility to serve on the intel committee. they put the national security ahead of partisan politics. integrity matters. we will make the intel committee back to what it was supposed to be. today, those after mentioned democrats held a press conference on being booted. it was a sad affair. alleging this was merely an act of political retaliation by mccarthy. in other words, they were basically owed these positions. it will only breed distrust within the intelligence community as to what it can share and what it can feel confident about sharing with the congress. our mission is to restore the credibility of this institution of which the speaker has so gravely, so gravely, smashed and destroyed. so gravely smashed. not only do they have no right to be on that committee and we re pla
there could be more classified documents after the national archives already retrieved 15 boxes. so, the fbi was reportedly tipped off by someone who led them to execute the search warrant. attorney general merrick garland faces increasing pressure to say something publicly about why the fbi conducted the search. the calls are not just coming from outside the justice department. cnn has learned some officials within the doj believe the department should provide a public statement. they argue internally the silence is harmful to the department and the public s interest. that s in part because donald trump and his allies have filled the void with angry speculative rhetoric. to that point, the ex-president puts out baseless accusations today that the fbi, quote, planted incriminating material before searching his residence, trying to cast this as some sort of conspiracy against him. trump or his team have a copy of the search warrant. normally it does list the items to be seized
grant funding and more as we do in other locations. but anderson, abbott has not shown any plan to stop the busses anytime soon. the news continues. i wanna hand it over to sara sidner. i am sara sidner, this is cnn tonight. we will take you to the moment this, legal twists and turns of donald trump and the country are now experiencing. first, there is new reporting this evening related to the unprecedented search of trump s primary home. there are so many questions yet to be answered about what led fbi agents to marlar go on monday and also who may have led them there. the wall street journal is now reporting that there was an informant, someone familiar with documents stored at the trump residence, who told investigators that there could be more classified documents after the national archives already retrieved 15 boxes. so the fbi was reportedly tipped off by someone who led them to execute a search warrant. attorney general merrick garland faces increasing pressure now
oath keepers. so january 6th committee members have made claims that they can link members of trump s inner circle to the oath keepers. and new this morning the justice department firing back at steve bannon s sudden about face that he s willing to testify before the january 6th committee just days before his contempt trial begins. trump is waiving executive privilege as he said as bannon has said and waiving should certainly be used loosely here, perhaps in quotation marks so that bannon can testify, but the doj says that doesn t matter even one bit. more on that in a moment. experts obviously believe that never applied in the first place. we do begin with sunlen serfaty who is on capitol hill with more on tomorrow s big hearing. what are we expecting? reporter: certainly a big week up here on capitol hill with two big hearings from the january 6th committee starting with tomorrow. now, tomorrow s hearing will be largely focused on the mob who participated, how did
quote, irrelevant to the contempt of congress case against him. that is set to begin next week. the doj wrote, quote, the defendant s sudden wish to testify is not a genuine effort to meet obl gigations, but a last-ditch attempt to avoid accountability. bannon s reversal comes after he received a letter from former trump that waives executive privilege, but new court documents show that an attorney for former president trump actually spoke to the fbi weeks ago and contradicted bannon s claim that the former president had invoked executive privilege over particular information or materials, so who is telling the truth and who is not? more on that in a moment. also, in the january 6th public hearing that is tomorrow, this is the next one, the panel is expected to focus on how the violent mob came together, the rule of extremist groups in the deadly insurrection, and any connections of those groups to trump s inner circle. a former spokesman for the oath keepers, a far right