filling the vacuum as trump lawyers refused to release the fbi search warrant. plus, how a new crop of maga primary winners raises the stakes for the midterms. and explosive new reporting on the secret history of family separation. american people don t like the idea that we re separating families. we never really intended to do that. the atlantic s kaitlan dickinson has the untold story of an american catastrophe, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m alicia menendez in for chris hayes. 48 hours later there are many unanswered questions surrounding the fbi s search of donald trump s florida home. right now, the ex president is not even in florida, he s new york city to testify in a different investigation into his conduct. this is a civil investigation into the trump organization led by the new york state attorney general letitia james. trump said he would not answer any questions, instead invoking his fifth amendment right. something as you well
and, the race to save the giant sequoias in yosemite national park as a wildfire threatens trees that have stood for thousands of years. but we start with the january 6 house select committee final push with two more public hearings set to take place this week. this is going to be a really big week for the investigation. committee members are looking to build on the momentum. from the previous six hearings. the next one is set for tomorrow afternoon and will focus on what some panel members call the martialing of the upon. it will include evidence of coordination between former president trump, his top aides and associates, and white nationalists or militia groups such as the proud boys and the oath keepers who, members say, led the assault on the capitol. the thursday hearing will zero in on trump s actions. or inactions as vice president mike pence and house and senate lawmakers and hundreds of police officers came under attack. thursday s hearing is expected to be held in
electric coverage. this has no been no ordinary august politically. then news week ahead promises to be dominated by the deepening implications of just what the justice department retrieved from donald trump s mar-a-lago estate nearly a month ago. that s thanks to two surrounding developments surrounding this investigation. a federal judge and florida signaling just yesterday her intention to appoint an independent special master to oversee the review of what the fbi retreat from mar-a-lago. as the director of national intelligence announces that her office will conduct a threat assessment of those documents. the news comes after this week s release of unredacted copy of the affidavit used by investigators to obtain the search warrants. wearing out the justice department s fears of possible national security risks. over classified documents that trump was holding on to. between all of trump s trouble, a busy summer of legislative winds and a resurgent president biden. democr
the magic wall. let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, trump s lawyers talking. cnn confirming that the fbi interviewed two of trump s former lawyers. the former white house counsel pat cipollone and deputy patrick philbin. they are the two most senior trump officials to be interviewed in the criminal investigation of trump s handling of classified information. this is a significant development. obviously cipollone and philbin know a lot. they were trump s point men for dealing with the national archives. investigators, of course, asked questions about how 15 boxes of teeshls ended up at mar-a-lago even after, even after they said they returned everything. team trump did. according to the new york times philbin had been working to return all the documents since the national archives realized any of them were missing. it was trump, though, who resisted. several advisers telling the times that trump would say, quote, it s not theirs, it s min
to go after president biden. these are biden indictments against this is just against a political opponent. but they ve opened up a pandora s box, and i only can say to joe is be very careful what you wish for because what you ve done is a terrible thing. but not all republicans think donald trump s focus on revenge and retribution is a winning strategy for another four years in the white house. this is what i tell president trump too. what president trump needs to do in this campaign, it needs to be rebuilding, restoring, renewing america. it can t be about revenge. he s talking about retribution day in, day out. he needs to stop that. he needs to stop that. we should note kevin mccarthy, who you just saw there, is endorsing donald trump for president. let s discuss more now with former adviser to vice president mike pence, olivia troye, and former fox news host and journalist geraldo rivera. great to see you. olivia, let me start with you first. hi, geraldo. t