trump s legal team went to the justice department to meet with the one and only jack smith. remember, just two weeks ago, trump s lawyers sent an official letter to attorney general merrick garland asking for a chance to make their case. the attorney general was not at today s meeting, we don t know everything that was discussed. but the washington post reports this, people familiar with the matter say trump s lawyers asked the department of justice not to charge the former president. earlier, former federal prosecutor andrew weissmann said this meeting is a sign of what s to come. there is no reason to have the meeting if there weren t going to be potential charges. when you look at what the facts are, it would actually be a violation of the rule of law for donald trump, not to be charged. not long after, his lawyers left the department of justice, donald trump himself posted this on his social media platform, quote, how can doj possibly charge me, who did nothing wrong,
end. then, nikki haley fanning the culture war flames. a fact check on what she said over the weekend. and apple debuting a 3500 dollar headset. but is there more to this? with just a hefty price tag, as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good monday evening. i am stephanie ruhle, with a lot of news to cover tonight. and the special counsel s investigation into donald j trump s handling of classified documents appears to be at equivocal stage. and i know i ve said that to you before, but this time, i really think it s different. this morning, three members of trump s legal team went to the justice department to meet with the one and only jack smith. remember, just two weeks ago, trump s lawyers sent an official letter to attorney general merrick garland asking for a chance to make their case. the attorney general was not at today s meeting, we don t know everything that was discussed. but the washington post reports this, people familiar with the matter
That see only the negative and theres a lot of positives going on here and i hope, i hope that that is seen and thought about. He still has work left undone so we need him to be table reply Enter Society as soon as possible so he can continue to pay it forward relative to the lives he has wrote touch. Reporter fat is a at as wife left Court Without comment. Federal prosecutors that had called for 17 to more than 20s years in prison for fattah. But the judge obviously chose to impose far less than that. Today chaka fattah was sentenced to 10 years in prison and thats a significant sentence. Reporter sharrie, in addition to 10 years behind bars, mr. Fattah will have to pay over 600,000 in restitution to the agencies he ripped off. He remains free on bail until january 26th. Then he must surrender to federal authorities t live at the federal courthouse in center city, im vernon odom channel6 action news. All right, the sentencing making national headlines. Vern, thank you. Meantime a man
V. J. , of course. Such an important forecast for this week. Looking beyond, its a mild pattern, like spring. As a parent with three kids in the winter, the last thing you want to hear about is snowstorms. Its going to be easy street for the next 10 days or so. We dont have to worry about what to do with the kids. A lot of folks of course wanted it to be cold during the winter and we will be getting back to that pattern by early february, but for right now temperatures will continue to get to around 50 degrees. 30s across the area. Clouds, not much in the way of rain at all, rain starting to end and die out south east of us. Mid 40s, putting us right at average for today. 46 in hagerstown and leesburg, and pax river towards for this evening we will only drop to the upper 30s, again, still overcast and fairly cloudy. Cold air will be retreating. Warm air will start moving in for tuesday that will stick with us to the work week, highs in the 50s. I will leave you with this, look d. C. ,
Live from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix 5 news. Heated up over health care. Some democratic heavy weights get an earful from bay area voters concerned about obamacare. Todays public gathering came just a day after a republican attempt to repeal obamacare collapsed. Kp was todays public gathering came just a day after the public attempt to republican event to repeal obamacare was pulled. Will you support single parent insurance . Reporter an auditorium full of concerned constituents. Pelosi and spear took questions on Climate Change, immigration, Foreign Policy and health care. Its engage. Its the democratic its engagement. Its the democratic process at work. Reporter aaron fisher showed up to voice his concerns over the political roller coaster thats the Affordable Care act. Representatives have heard from the people that the aca obamacare is important to them literally being alive. Reporter yesterday republicans failed to unite to repeal obamacare, and President Trump pointed