Office. What any of that portends is anyones guess at this hour. We have eyes on entrances and exits of that courthouse. Journalists there standing by and a few trained ears to the ground. As soon as we know something, anything at all, we will let you know. We should know today marks two weeks since donald trump announced that he had received a Target Letter in this case. It suggests he could be charged with Conspiracy To Defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct the january 6th session of congress, and depriving voters of their rights. Here with me are my guests. First, lets bring in justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, who has been following all this for us today. Ken, bring us up to speed for what we do know at this hour. Reporter greetings from the department of justice, where we are not so patiently waiting for news that explains the developments you just laid out. There are a lot of uncertainties around this process, because this is two weeks to the day si
last night asked that investigators regain access to 125 documents found in that search of mar-a-lago. that is part of the extraordinary appeal to cannon s order which politico puts like this, it aims to a full-throated rebuke of the ruling by cannon, a trump appointee who was confirmed to a seat after trump s defeat in the 2020 election. prosecutors used the filing to describe her ruling as a danger to national security and one ignorant to the counterintelligence work and lacking in an understanding of the complexities of executive privilege. all of it and the bid to continue to use the classified documents from mar-a-lago in the investigation amounts to a bold gamut from doj. once again, from politico, quote, they re going forward with an appeal despite the risk of cementing an awful precedent. we re getting an even worse ruling from an appeals court dominated by trump appointees and they re daring cannon to double down on analysts that legal analysts on the right and left
the framers of the constitution who divided power and authority, who separated it out, who had broken away from george the third, and declared him to be a tyrant. there was no way that they would ve put in the hands of one person the authority to determine who is going to be president of the united states. was it your present impression that the vice president had directly conveyed his position on these issues to the president, not just to the world through your colleagues letter, but directly to president trump? many times. and he had been consistent and conveying his position to the president? very consistent. so despite being told that the president kept up a relentless pressure campaign on the vice president, both in private. when i entered the office the second time, he was on the telephone with who had later found it was the vice president. the conversation was pretty heated. it was a different on that i had heard him take with the vice president before. did
in her video today, congresswoman cheney played a longer version of testimony we first heard some of yesterday from eric herschman, one of the white house lawyers, that eastman spoke with. it was the day after eastman i don t remember why, he called me or texted me, wanted to talk with me and said he couldn t reach others. and he started to ask me something about georgia and revealing something, potentially for appeal. and i said to him, are you out of your f-ing mind? i said, i only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on. orderly transition. i said, i don t want to hear any more f-ing words coming out of your mouth other than orderly transition. repeat those words to me. what did he say? eventually he said orderly transition. g i said, good, john. now i m going to give you the best advice you ll ever get in your life. get yourself a good lawyer, you re going to need it. and i hung up on him. right now we want to take a closer look at another ke
eastman i don t remember why he called me, or he texted me or called me, wanted to talk with me. and he said he couldn t reach others. and he started to ask me about something dealing with georgia preserving something, potentially for appeal. and i said to him are you out of your f-ing mind? i said i only want the hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on. orderly transition. i don t want to hear any other f-ing words coming out of your mouth no matter what other than orderly transition. repeat those words to me. what did he say? eventually he said orderly transition. i said good, john. now i m going to give you the best free legal advice you re ever getting in your life. get a great f-ing criminal defense lawyer. you re going to need it. and i hung up on him. in just a moment, we ll be joined by maryland democratic chairman jamie raskin who serves on the committee. right now we want the take a closer look at another key item the committee highlighted