politicsnation. tonight s lead, multi tasking. last week, the biden administration reminded its republican detractors and the nation white voters overwhelmingly shows president biden and democrats. president biden as diplomatic chief wrapped up his successful east your pm trip marking the first anniversary of russia s invasion of ukraine with a surprise visit to kyiv. a renewed pledge of solidarity as the war drags into its second year. here at home, top biden officials were underground and east palestine, ohio responding to that trans trained around the disaster. the epa and fema worked hand in hand with local officials to clean up the mass and hold no for southern accountable for their accident. whether it was ukraine or ohio republican politicians could only offer photo ops and bad faith criticism threatening u.s. support for ukraine as another aid packages unveiled. run to the cameras in east palestine ohio to lay blame directly at president biden s feet. even as local of
contained information that they were looking for relating to his electronic devices and according to the new york times, they went inside of the suv, took his phones and then just days later gave them back to him. what we know about this investigation is that this all started last week. during a search warrant of a chief fundraiser in brooklyn, and according to officials, the fbi conducting an investigation into whether campaign money was funneled through straw donors, turk. government folks and straw donors. so that is what sort of started all of this. and then something clearly has happened. something significant has happened here for the fbi to take this kind of step in this investigation to approach a sitting mayor, the new york city mayor, and to ask for his phones in this way is certainly very, very significant. now, the mayor and his folks through a lawyer, his lawyer telling us that basically the mayor is cooperating in this investigation and that he s going to co
tonight, the michigan attorney general announcing charges against 16 people in the fake electors scheme in their state. each of them being charged with eight felonies. these charged include current and former state republican officials, a republican national committee member, a sitting mayor, a local school board member, and trump supporters who were the plaintiffs in a lawsuit that tried to overturn the 2020 election results. you see their faces here. they range in age as you can see from 55 to 82. this is the first time that any of the fake electors have been charged with a crime related to that scheme, of course, it is something that is being investigated. today in a statement the attorney general from michigan, dana nessel addressed the charges. they weren t the duly elected and qualified electors and each of the defendants knew it.
donald trump on sunday speaks volumes about the work of their grand jury which still is expected to meet as soon again as thursday. katelyn polantz, cnn, washington. and the special counsel s office has reached out to officials in all seven battleground states trump targeted in his efforts to overturn the election. the most recent being former arizona governor republican doug ducey. trump publly attack ed ducey over the state s results. and they have chged 16 people for allegerticipation in a fake electors plot. thgrp includes current and former state republican official, republican national committee member, a sitting mayor, and trump supporters who filed a frivolous lawsuit in an attempt to overturn the election results. this plan to reject the will of the voters and undermine democracy was fraudulent and legally baseless.
goli, taste your goals. tonight, the michigan attorney general announcing charges against 16 people in the fake elector scheme in their state. each of them being charged with eight felonies. these charged include current and former state republican officials, republican national committee member, a sitting mayor, a local school board member, and trump supporters who were the plaintiffs in a lawsuit that try to overturn the 2020 election results. you see their faces here. they range in age, as you can see, from 55 to 82.