of trying to on jukt its mar-a-lago investigation. a key member of the january 6th committee weighs in. and we re also following the dire situation in jackson, mississippi, where 150,000 people are without a safe water supply for a third straight day. will an emergency pump finally bring them relief? and americans could be just days away from getting the first updated covid booster shots. the fda is green lighting tweaks to the vaccine so it can better target the omicron variant. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m pamela brown, and you re in the situation room. our top story tonight, the legal drama in the mar-a-lago investigation. trump s attorneys now have until 8:00 p.m. eastern to respond to the justice department after prosecutors accused the trump team of hiding and removing government documents at his florida home. cnn political correspondent sara murray has our report. mr. president! reporter:
states because of a little known exception the government has been making. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone. i m poppy harlow in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, team trump s response. trump s legal team up against the clock to respond to that bombshell 54-page filing by the justice department. we should be getting that response at any moment now. it is due in less than an hour and the filing, which is expected to be no more than ten pages or less, could give us the first look at the strategy from trump s new legal counsel. that is florida s former solicitor general. for the first time, we re getting crucial insight into trump s defense against damning new evidence from the doj, which, according to the agency s new filing, investigators have evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed in the storage room and efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. the doj detailing in this filing the depth and the breadth
constantly on the news networks. i m glad that jim tapper is not sitting in front of the tv monitoring what is coming out of the media. good news. i don t know what he s doing 24 hours per day. i know. don t you feel more safe now? i have to say. listen. diane sawer not asking him a top secret but but asking what what every average american news watcher would be able to answer. i don t want to hear excuses on this. this is a national security matter. there was a bit of a deer in heat lampe look. more than a little bit. i think we have to, thank heavens that eric holder can now be cited for talking about home grown extremism to watch. i i think it s a step in the right direction. it s rare anyone would cite eric holder on terrorism. today he gets a gold star.