what is going on? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, will merrick garland indict donald trump? tonight, a major clue into what investigators are focusing on, that is the fake electors, those fake electors from contested states. bennie thompson, the chairman of the january 6th committee, saying his committee is providing the doj with witness transcripts to put up the fraj la fraudulentelectors. they ve included testimony from the chairwoman of the republican national committee, describing a call that she received from the former president and his attorney, john eastman. he turned the call over to mr. eastman, who then proceeded to talk about the importance of the rnc helping the campaign gather these contingent electors in case any of the legal challenges that were ongoing changed the result did you receive a call from andy y biggs of arizona on the morning of january 6th? i did. he asked if i would sign on both to a letter that
reconnected to the electricity grid. president zelenskyy says the danger isn t over yet. announcer: live, from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuberbrunhuber. we re getting our clearest look yet into the u.s. justice depa department s investigation into classified documents. a redacted version of the after daft the fbi submitted details what federal investigators expected to find, improperly taken classified national security materials as well as evidence of obstruction. in a court filing friday, donald trump s legal team said the redacted affidavit, quote, raises more questions than answers and underscores why a so called special master is needed to review the evidence taken during the search. jessica schneider has more on the key take aways from the unsealed document. reporter: startling new details about the hundreds of pages of documents former president trump kept at mar-a-lago for months as the national archives tried to get them back. the top
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