classified documents case. evidence that paints a potentially damning portrait of efforts by the expresident in the expresident s push to retrieve important and sensitive security documents from that washington post report, quote, two of donald trump s employees moved boxes of papers the day before fbi agents and a prosecutor visited the former president s florida home to retrieve classified documents in response to a subpoena. timing that investigators have come to view as suspicious, and an indication of possible obstruction. according to people familiar with the matter. trump and his aides allegedly carried out a dress rehearsal for moving sensitive papers, even before his office received the may 2022 subpoena. that is according to people familiar with the matter who spoke anonymously to describe a sensitive ongoing investigation. the washington post has new details on a question that has loomed over the entire investigation. what did donald trump do with his trove of
compartment, which is close government secrets the reason this is reviewed by prosecutors at the justice department by the u.s. attorney in chicago john lou, and the fbi, they do damage assessment to see whether in six years these documents were held in a location that is not secure, whether there s any damage that s been done to national security. of course, this, the white house said that the white house is cooperating with this review being done by the national archives and the justice department, and they say this is obviously something that even the former president even the president was not aware of until these documents were found by his legal team as they were trying to shut down this think tank office he set up as he left office in 2017. the fact that the documents are there is news and notable and also, insofar as we know details of the story so far, somewhat different context wally than the case of the documents at mar-a-lago, the documents subpoenaed twice an
exclusive access with the 101st airborne near the ukrainian border. cbs charlie d agata reports, this is not a training deployment but a combat one. music superstar taylor swift, the most streamed female artist of all time, crashes spotify. and cbs steve hartman goes on the road. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this friday night. we want to begin with what is likely to become a historic legal battle unlike any other in american history, as congress today ordered former president donald trump to testify under oath. the january 6 committee followed thrugh on its unanimous vote to subpoena the former president for documents and his testimony related to his false allegations about the 2020 presidential election. in a letter, chairman bennie thompson, and vice chair liz cheney write that the committee has gathered overwhelming evidence that trump perso
hi everyone, it s 4:00 in new york as we come on the air, we are following breaking news. at this hour, one of the disgraced twice impeached ex-president s closest advisers, allen weisselberg is on route to the notorious rikers island. if he hasn t arrived already. he s been sentenced to five months behind bars for executing a tax scheme. he had been facing up to 15 years in prison but struck a deal with prosecutors pleading guilty to 15 felony counts including tax fraud, conspiracy and grand larceny, and agreeing to testify against the trump org, though notably not against the big boss, donald hymn or any of his family. weisselberg who is 75 years old has been with the trump org for 50 years. technically he was the chief financial officer, but cfo doesn t capture how central he is to the trump org and the shady transactions or how complicit he was in the dirty dealings of the ex-president. nobody knows that better than michael cohen who had and has and has shared the receipt
attorneys, look, you guys take the lead, look at everything, dig through it all. have free reign. let us know what is in there and whether or not we need to come pick it up, which they reportedly according to the wall street journal today did and in the end go down. obviously how this played out is a very big concern for national security. whenever classified documents are involved, something that the president himself has admitted is a very serious issue. so jonathan turley says if this handling story is true, this development is what he calls breathtaking in its scope in this case. we re also glad to have the house judiciary committee chairman now, jim jordan. that is his new title. he s joining us. we ll get his thoughts on what their role will be in the judiciary committee with all of this in just a moment. first, to the white house. they re waiting for this to get underway. we could get a two-minute warning at any time. jacqui heinrich is there in position ready to g