she partner oldsmobile in that parking lot. again, it's hours until the library opens up. she parked her car and started racing around aimlessly and weirdly. there was a security guard on site but he noticed this was odd. this woman was acting weirdly in the back parking lot. and so the security guard went over to the side of the building, the back side of the library to look out into the parking lot and try and figure out what it was -- what was going on with this woman, what she was doing. when he took that walk over to the back of the presidential library, that is when the thieves struck at the front of the presidential library. the front doors of the harris truman library were made of class, while that security guard was at the back of the library, the other end of the building looking at this woman in the parking lot was apparently there to create diversion while he was on the other side of the building, two thieves came and smashed in the glass of the front doors of the library. it was very loud, it caused a huge commotion, the security guard came running, the security guard then heard more glass smashing. but they apparently knew what they were after. it went very fast, they were in and out before anyone could catch them. the curator layer to the -- the ice took less than a minute by the time the security guard got back to where those guys had broken in, all that was left was a bunch of broken glass than footprints and snow. it turns out what they were after were these. look at all these big old swords and daggers. a little known fact about the harry estrogen presidency is they apparently love the stuff. when he was president, he was given as gifts a bunch of these things. nothing inappropriate about. he didn't keep it for himself, he handed it over to the national archives. they were put on display at his library and museum. but they were ornate things. this is a 38 inch long presentation soared. the grips of it our gold, it has four different diamonds inlaid into it. the -- older thing that it goes into is more gold and black leather. it is studded with even more diamonds. it has 15 diamonds. apparently the gold tassel thing also came with it, that was not stolen it was left behind. but the sort was taken. there was this dagger, and this dagger fit on to this very piracy little belt. this was given to president harry f truman by member of the saudi royal family. the belt which is the thing you see horizontally there, it is woven with gold threads, real gold. the health of the dog yourself is also gold. he has nine more diamond studded into its grip. here is a sword that the -- big silver sword another fancy, another one that looks like that that is made from different stuff from prince. this one is crazy, look at it is a dagger that is almost too small to have this entire jewelry store embedded in. on this thing, the health of it is gold. it has four fat diamonds in the hilt, and a two and a half carat emerald. then in the lower grip has a three carat ruby and another 15 diamonds. then there is the holder, this has also gold, naturally, at the tip it has a three carat ruby and 12 diamonds, at the base of it is an eight and a half carat diamond emerald. another three carat ruby. four of the rubies. and 12 other diamonds. why? you guys run out of money and couldn't if anything else? we ran out of space? ran out of money? why so cheap? this is an entire blocks worth of jewelry stores in one bag that looks like a bedazzled garden hose nozzle. but all of these incredibly ornate ridiculous swords and daggers were all gifts to harry s truman while he was president. i guess work got out this was the kind of gift he like. they were up in a display case, unfortunately a glass display case. unfortunately it was blessed just inside the glass front doors of the harry truman presidential library, until that morning in march 1978. -- those two guys whoever they were were unable to smash the doors and cases and ran off with all of those sorts and daggers. to this day, none of them has ever been found. look, here's the fbi wanted poster offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the recovery of these sorts from the presidential library and. there is an actual fbi wanted poster for the sort and daggers. here, if you want even more detail, here's the oval website version of the wanted poster. not just pictures but detailed descriptions of the swords, the daggers, the jewels, and the descriptions of them with information about how to report information if you come across any of these things. and this website is as on the website of the national archives because it turns out the national archives, your national honors, our national archives as americans, they've got a detective unit. their inspector general office has done investigations unit and they specifically have an archival recovery program full of investigators who do detective work to go capture people who messed with the national archives and steal stuff from the national archives. so they've got like a cold case squad on the heist of harry truman's bedazzled sword and dagger collection. it's also the same entity that's on the hunt to this day for a ring that looks just like this one. a ring, which appears to be be lifted from the lbj collection of the national archives. it's a costar academy ring given as a gift in 1964 the jam it is a yellow sapphire and it's got -- as you can see on the right side of the screen there and importantly the identifying feature that they're looking for is that it's got an lbj engraved. it is missing. presumed stolen. if you find it somewhere call the investigators of the national archives they're looking for it in they won it back. someone also somehow lifted this very nice portrait of fdr, stolen from the national archives. if you have seen this portrait, if you know where it is called the investigators at the national archives they want it back and they're actively looking for a. in 2002, a guy was sentenced to prison for stealing hundreds of photographs and documents from the national archives including a whole bunch of signed presidential pardons. they caught him because he sold a lot of the stuff on ebay but they're still looking for most of the pardons that he stole. the missing ones are all listed in the archival recovery quorum website at the national archives. they're on the case, they're looking for the missing presidential pardons. they archive them on the website by president. at least that's the way that they're gonna look for them. they don't just deal with thefts though, they deal with forgeries. if someone tries to forge a military record, or veteran's record to try and make themselves seem like they had a military career they haven't actually had. these are the investigators that will track them down and nail you for that. in 2011, this guy, confessed to national archives investigators for two a very unusual forgery plot. while look as we neared about that date? that man confessed to bring in a fountain pan into a national archives research room. he use that pen smuggled into the room to change the date on a document, the real document was dated april 14th, 1864, it was a part in that abraham lincoln at sign for a union soldier that i court-martial -- this guy apparently decided he would be credited with a great historical find if the date on that pardon instead, instead of saying april 14th 1864, it said april 16th 1865. the date lincoln was a stat assassinated. he thought he would be credited with a historical fine if it looked like he found this pardon that was the last thing that abraham lincoln signed before he was assassinated. and so we changed the date from 1864 to 1865 to try to pass it. >> well the cop shot of the national archives caught him doing, they caught him. he confessed. when they referred him to the u. s. justice department for federal prosecution. there are comps to protect the integrity of the national archives of the united states. who knew. think about that for a second, people disparage look at history degree one of things you can do with just the right history, and just right set of skills, as you can rub to be a history cop who bus people for pilfering's death are messing with stuff in the national archive of the united states. what? the world is your oyster that's the coolest job in the entire world. politico. com is just reported that those cops are the cops on the case, at least not part of the case. of the republicans who forged fake documents after the 2020 election ascertaining that they were the real electors from their state when they were not the real electors from their state. we have been closely covering this weird story of republicans in multiple states who created forged documents to say they were electors when they were not. kyle cheney and nicolas rule from political. com have now reported in pursuing that story themselves they don't groundbreaking work, they've obtained records indicating that national archives investigators have pursued a case of potential fraud against a state of would-be electors in the state of arizona. archives inspector general officials said that the agency declined to comment on quote, ongoing work. ongoing work, we know that the attorney general in new mexico and in michigan have referred to the federal prosecutors refer to -- these republicans who forge fake electoral documents that they can potentially be criminally prosecute under federal level. we don't know if those referrals ultimately result in federal prosecutions but that's what the attorney generals are asking for in the states. we know that at least one of those states in michigan, the attorney general there, dana, nestle has charges against republican fake electors the state will pursue state charges against them. but apparently there's yet another option being pursued as an ongoing matter by the cops at the national archives. by the investigators at the national archives. involving one of the two sets the forged documents sent into the national archives by arizona republicans pretending to be electors when they were not. tell me more. nicholas from politico. com has done seminal work on this story from the very beginning, he's here tonight to tell us more about that in just a few minutes. excited to hear about that, we've got a lot to cover tonight that a packed news day everything from the wild swings of the dow jones, to president biden getting caught on a hot night cone operated as an uncomplicated thing. he insulted the reporters intelligence, which is never a nice thing to say someone for sure. it's not like economy calling in the animated people but still. not a nice thing. when are we talking tonight to the now fevered pitch to worry of vladimir putin's gonna launch another war. the u. s. has spent thousands of troops on heightened alert status with potential deployment eastern europe. family members of staff of the embassies in kyiv, and ukraine have been sent home. the u. s. is threatening a whole new set of sanctions that have never been used against russia before. these are sanctions that authoritatively different then compared to anything else russia has had to contemplate in terms of the consequences for their actions. a lot more that i had tonight. as well as the political throughout the arizona democrat senator kristen sinema first joined by conservative joe manchin and all republican senators last week to voting rights protection at the federal level. it seems like will be consequences for senator sinema even if there won't be for senator manchin. we saw over the weekend the democratic party in -- for her moved to block voting rights but politically the consequences of her actions are about to get much worse for senator kristen sinema tonight we're gonna break that news here tonight in just a couple minutes. but where we start tonight is that the state of georgia, former president donald trump is facing a criminal inquiry in new york for leading to feminine criminal charges against his real estate business and financial office he's facing a serious civil fraud brought on by the attorney general which also concerns his business a threatening matter for the president of his reaction to the public ways that he had to go by. but aside from his business practices in the way has comported himself in his business, life which has led to those two serious investigations, serious liability for the former president. in terms of the not inconsiderable matter of him leading an effort to try to overthrow the u.s. government and prevent a newly elected president from taking office, the only criminal inquiry that we know he is facing in relation to that is the one in the state of georgia. as we reported last week, a state prosecutor in fulton county, georgia, fani willis, applied last week to take a major new step in her investigation into whether or not crimes were committed when former president trump and others in the trump white house and trump campaign, basically sought to intimidate and pressure georgia election officials into falsifying the results of the election as part of those results to -- keep trump in power after he lost. fulton county district attorney, fani willis, asked the courts for permission to empanel what's called a special grand jury. now, what's the difference between a regular grand jury and a special grand jury? it's pretty simple. in fulton county, a regular grand jury handles many, many, many criminal cases, one after the other. a regular grand jury sits for, i believe, two months. and then they get replaced with a new grand jury, and that again comes in and handles many, many criminal cases one after the other. that's what a regular grand jury does. a special grand jury is not unheard of but it's much more rarely used. and it's used for cases that are more complex and that involve lots of evidence that needs to be reviewed over a longer period of time. a special grand jury handles only one case. they are not in power to hand up indictments, but they can issue subpoenas to compel people to testify and hand over documents. a special grand jury looks at evidence in one big complex case and they investigate. and at the end of their service, that special grand jury provides a report on the evidence and the district attorney can then use that report to seek an indictment if that is warranted. again, this is not unheard of, but it's not commonly used technique. but it is a thing. and district attorney fani willis asked the courts in georgia last week to empower her to use a special grand jury specifically for the trump investigation. and tonight, the courts in georgia have said yes. the special grand jury will have up to 23 people on it. it will sit for up to one year. it will be supervised in its work by a superior court judge, who himself is a former prosecutor in the fulton county da's officew, he's also a -- in in the northern district of georgia. several people who have been sought by investigators as potential witnesses in that criminal investigation have reportedly said they're not going to testify without a subpoena to do so. well now, the courts have approved a special grand jury that will be empowered to hand down those subpoenas. here we go. joining us now is michael j. moore, he is the former u.s. attorney for the middle district of georgia, he has tried cases in front of the judge who will oversee the special grand jury, christopher brasher-- mr. moore, it's a real pleasure to have you with us tonight, thanks for making the time. >> it's a pleasure to be with you, thanks for having me. >> let me just first ask you, i know that grand jury and special grand jury procedures are different in every jurisdiction in the country, did i explain any of that wrong? or did i get -- did i miss anything important? >> no, you did a great job. and i'll tell you that it is not a common thing to have a special grand jury. so, this is in fact a little bit out of the ordinary, if not completely out of the ordinary, but it's not an everyday thing that happens. most of the time you think about of grand jury of having the power to indict a case, and as you say here, a special grand jury does not. but they will have the authority to at least under judge christopher brasher, who will oversee this grand jury, to commence an investigation. >> it does seem like this approval from the courts to seat the special grand jury, it came fairly quickly. we were just reporting last week on the request to the courts made by the district attorney willis, they've responded already. i understand that means that they had to essentially pull all the judges in the county. and a majority of them had to -- and a majority of them had to approve this. that approval seems to have come fairly quickly. that said, in terms of the timeline, this special grand jury isn't actually going to be seated until the beginning of may. i was curious about those -- the quickness with it they acted and a delay until the grand jury actually is seated. do you have any way to help us understand that? >> sure. so we've got 20 superior court judges that stayed in fulton county. so the majority of those judges would have to have approved the application to have the special grand jury. and that would be indicated in the judges order, when he said the majority had in fact authorized this grand jury. i don't put a lot of stock in date, that could be something as simple as this -- who will oversee this grand jury, he may have a trial going on in april that's gonna take the entire month, and he's doing pretrial in march. i mean, we just don't know when that might be. so i don't know necessarily put a lot of stock into it. it may also be to make sure they get the summons out and all those things necessary. to bring in a special grand jury in this case. >> i know that you have tried cases, or at least i've been told it you have tried cases in front of the george that is going to have that supervisory role here. is there anything we should know about the judge and his reputation and his capabilities, how is you by spears? >> you, know i've had cases where he's been the judge. i have not tried a case in front of him. i think he's a good judge, he's a thorough judge. but, he's a republican appointee. and i'll say that as if it some kind of bad mark against him. but that's just the reality of it. and so, i think you'll be thorough and i think he probably has a good understanding -- if assistant u.s. attorney in one case is local when they're complex. but there's also -- u.s. attorneys are also taught that you look for the most severe, readily approvable that the institute can have, when you're moving forward the case. and that's one thing i really been pushing for here, and that is that i don't know we that we need a special grand jury. i mean, we've got -- the secretary of state has written a book about what's happened, so it's not really a secret about what's going on. plus we have this recorded telephone call. it's not exactly -- secretary resin berger has said he's not going to -- sell a book but then refused to come forward to a grand jury and try to look into the allegations that you wrote your book about. but, that being said, i think in this case, the district attorney could take a very rifle shot approach at the case. and that serves, there's a lot of benefit to that, on the one hand, moves the case quickly. on the other hand it avoid some problems that may come down the road. but fellow case in this state that are controlled by republican appointees. some friends of mine and some good people that are, not suggesting that the case goes one way or another, but if you have a doubt about how things might come out. i mean, tell me how things are going at supreme court right now based in who's got the majority in the courts. so, those are things to consider. i also think it would be smart because, think about the benefits of a cyberattack, you do a quick shot, you kind of hitter in the bushes, and you've got the case going, as opposed to driving up to the camp and school bus and getting on a big target to shoot it. so, it's just a different approaches and i certainly have a lot of respect -- i don't want to second guess her, i don't be calling the shots from the cheap seats here. but i do think there is a case to be made for treating this like any other criminal case. you know, slapped the trump indictment, if you choose to indict him, put him in front of a regular criminal grand jury. slap him in between someone of accused of sexual assault and someone accused of tried, that seems like a pretty good place to have his case heard. see if the grand jury wants to hinge issue an indictment, if they're not, they're to listen to all the evidence, you don't have to put all of your case for it, you don't have to present your case beyond a reasonable doubt. you're just establishing probable cause. so, with the citizens of fulton county make a decision based on testimony that a prosecutor felt like was enough to establish probable cause that a crime had been committed, would be then issue an indictment to move the case forward to a trial. so i think there's some consideration that could still be looked at, and my guess is if she's doing this to maybe expand her investigation, to look at other people, she may be looking at people that were involved in the telephone call, the scheduling, or other people who have made call to the states officials as well. but, i do think that there's a way to move the case a great deal more quickly. and with some efficiency that might help as well. >> michael j. more, former u. s. attorney for the middle district of georgia, amanda knows of what he speaks with that kind of experience. sir, thank you very much for your time and perspective, we appreciate it. >> it's been a great pleasure, thank you. >> all right, we got 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>> arizona is a very swingy state and i was able to get sinema over to the top was to go to the senate was to the latina vote. and rachel, we did not make this decision lightly. we had conference calls and we spoke to individuals, we engaged and we engage with senator sinema we are very clear on the day of the vote but we needed her to do. we had her back when she needed as, the latino community, and she demonstrated that even though arizona was ground zero for the big lie, the big audit that was fabricated that was not true she did not take seriously this idea that voting is the essence as the president said it's the threshold of democracy. or millions of arizona's and latinos were disenfranchised, millions of americans across the country do not have fare free elections at the federal elections. regardless -- >> has senators sinema been willing to engage with you, with voter latino and other groups that had such a problem with her and recent voting record and our recent actions on issues like this. has she been willing to talk? >> she did, on the very day on the big vote on the filibuster. to bring this to the floor we had a conversation i, engage with her and, several other latino leaders and she referred to us in a 20-minute speech that she made it she was very clear, and we were clear. that we needed to make sure that we are all eligible to participate in our democracy. and again, everybody has a different perspective on what we should be doing, when you look at the ramifications on what is happening at the state level on the the rights of individuals, on young people, people of color it is disproportionately in the republican party who is incumbent on making sure not everybody has equal access. last year in 2020, rachel, we had all 50 states regardless of -- every single secretary of state had a fair and free election but it was the people who voted. it was the young people, people of color, latinos, african americans, native americans, asian americans that voted in record numbers, multi generational america to obstruct that we want to different direction for our country. instead of republicans celebrating this, instead of sinema making sure we can do this again she is the first person that is basically the obstacle to ensure to get rid of the filibuster and have equal access -- in a democracy that continues to thrive. >> in terms of big d democrats versus small d democracy, and looking at some of the polling for senator sinema on one recent poll found that it was a poll of arizona democrats at 72% of arizona democrats would prefer that there was a different candidate for her seat. another poll found at the best-case scenario for her it would be a very crowded primary for her seat, in a very crowded primary she would still lose the primary by four points. if i'm senators sinema campaign staff political staff and i'm looking at those kind of numbers among arizona democrats and i'm looking at audio cinema dot org, i'm looking at this campaign that you're starting and this similar argued that we're hearing from so many people that represent key constituents that helped get our elected the last time. i might fail. in the democratic party become a republican potentially i guess become an independent try to do this the -- past we don't fit in with the state party but you try to hold onto your seat anyway, do you think that's a possibility? >> so the lisa murkowski, the differences you don't have a large ethnic population where she's from. in arizona, 30% of the base is latino. by the time senator sinema will get on the ballot they're gonna have 162,000 newly minted eligible voters that have just turned 18 within the last four years. the fact, this government to remind viewers, the president biden won arizona by less than 12,000 votes. these are absolutely opportunities as anything we will contest the primaried opens up a big deal to find new dynamic votes and voices that really serve the interests of the arizona people. we to remind folks that it wasn't just the filibuster, the filibuster if we cannot access the voting everything else that arizona seems to care about whether it's the, environment because they don't have water, whether it's access to health care, whether it's access to -- none of that is possible because there's an obstructionist government right now that's being held by the minority party and is being espoused by the minority of americans not the majority of americans. >> teresa kumar, as president and ceo of voter latino again launching this new campaign, a cat accountability campaign against sinema. is launching tonight thank you for joining us, i appreciate it. >> thank you, rachel,. safelite replace. ♪ (vo) subaru and our retailers volunteer and support charities all year long. and...through the subaru share the love event, we are proud to have donated over two hundred and twenty five million dollars to charity. you can get a car from any company, but none will make a difference like subaru. 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can you just put a little more meat on those bones? >> right, so this actually came as part of the public records request that you mentioned earlier, that i had filed with all of these different state secretary of state offices. and i came across emails from an official in the inspector generals office in the national archives, who was asking the state officials in arizona about these sovereign citizen electors, and asking -- and saying that they were pursuing the case of election fraud and other other kind of misconduct. -- state level investigations might be going on. and, from the look of those emails, it basically the state said that they refer this matter on to the state attorney general to investigate further. now, the state attorney general, brnovich, did not respond to requests for comment when i asked what the status of that investigation was. and as you noted in our story, we reached out to the archives inspector general to see what's going on with this investigation, and they said that they would declined to comment on what they referred to as an ongoing matter. so, it seems that this investigation is still going. >> do you know, or do you have any informed speculation, as to why the national actor archives investigators might be looking at that once slate of electors from arizona? arizona is in this unusual position where it seems like there were two different efforts by two different sets of republicans to send into different fake slates of electors, both reporting to be the real electors from arizona when they weren't. one of those flights from arizona sent in documents that look very much what happened in at least four other states. but this other group of arizona republicans hut kind of did their own thing, and it seems like from your reporting, those are the ones who came -- who have now come under the scrutiny from the archive investigators. do you have any sense of why that might be? about what was different about that effort that might have attracted federal scrutiny when the others maybe did not? >> well, my understanding of the way the archives handles a lot of these investigations. and the way that inspector general goes about asking questions. they'll look into any kind of potential malfeasance. but, what's stood out about the sovereign citizens is that they use the official seal of the state of our zone on their documents that they tried to send in. something that prompted the state to send a cease and desist letter to the sovereign citizens group. and so, this appears to be would really pique the interest of the archives officials. >> political reporter, nicholas wu, thank you again for your great reporting on this. you've had a bunch of scoops but you've just had a great nose for figuring out where the story might go next. we're all kind of drafting in your wake on this, you deserve way more credit for this story than you are getting. thanks for helping and understanding. >> thank you so much, rachel. >> all right, we'll be right back, stay with us. thanks to realtor.com's home alerts we were able to see the newest homes on the market, super fast. so we could finally buy our first "big boi house." big boi house. big boi kitchen! big boi waterfall shower! big boi crawl space. big boi sold sign, big boi logo. realtor.com to each their home. one of my favorite supplements is qunol turmeric. turmeric helps with healthy joints big boi sold sign, big boi logo. and inflammation support. unlike regular turmeric supplements qunol's superior absorption helps me get the full benefits of turmeric. the brand i trust is qunol. medusa lived with a hideous curse. uhh, i mean the whole turning people to stone thing was a bit of a buzz kill, right? 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