gaza, civilians swarming a relief truck in search the food and water. this as we re getting new reaction to video that appears to show men and young boys detained by the israeli military and stripped to their underwear. an idf spokesperson will join us live. welcome. wolf blitzer is off day. i m kaitlan collins, and you are in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we do begin with the breaking news this hour as there s new revelations on how far trump operatives went from the frantic final push to keep their boss in the white house and overturn president biden s legitimate 2020 election victory. cnn s marshall cohen is part of the team that broke this exclusive report. marshall, what are we hearing and learning in these recordings about how deep and clearly fracturic that scheme was? we ve known bits and pieces, but now we re getting a full picture, coming from ken che chesebro, which was in many ways an architect of the plot. cnn has obtained re
attorney-client privilege and executive privilege. if you want know how this could possibly happen to a former president, all you have to do is look at the language used in the warrant. it was specifically overly broad. it gave the feds the power to rifle through every inch of the mansion, trump s safe, the master bedroom. even melania s clothes. despite knowing exactly where the documents were located. this wasn t by the book. he said so himself. the department does not take such decision lightly. where possible, it is standard practice to seek less intriewfn means as alternative to a search and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken. sean: so in the eyes of the doj trump is below the law. he says it s standard practice to be less intrusive. there is nothing more intrusive than having 30 agents in your home for nine hours. it obviously wasn t narrow in scope. they turned his mansion upside down. raided his wife s closet this was calculated. they were looking for
Promised to help. During the campaign, President Elect trump put out a list of promises. He put out his contract for American Voter and in it, very specific promises for his first 100 days. Lowering taxes and tax reform. Free and fair trade deals to protect American Workers and their jobs. Fixing our nations infrastructure and sending education back to the states and school choice. Repealing and replacing obamacare. Affordable child care, pulling a border wall, keeping community safe, rebuilding our nations military and doing what he calld draining the swamp. If he can keep those promises come of this country will be in a much better place one year from now, two years from now, four years from now. So on the eve of this inauguration, my advice for the incoming president is very simple. Dont let the washington establishment, republican establishment, democratic establishment, Media Establishment that in the way of
but i think we will get there and i think this very much is a new beginni
and if you coconspirator five, first electors to support the 2020 election in a previously unknown came to light in last week s criminal indictment. prosecutors are portraying that memo as a crucial length in how the trump team s efforts involve into an actual criminal conspiracy. according to a copy of the memo dated december six, 2020, which was obtained by the new york times. she s burrowed lined that plot with detailed instructions and a messaging strategy that cited the work of his former harvard constitutional law professor, laurence tribe. professor tribe is gonna join us in just a moment. but she s burrow was working as tribes resources and while he was a law student. and later helped him represent al gore during the 22,000
it s outrageous. i can t believe that this is going on. this has been happening for eight years to president trump. and every single time over and over he has proven innocent. and the american people will not tolerate. this i mean, look at jack smith. he is such a lousy attorney. he has got overturned cases, mistrials and judicial rebukes. and he has his target set on president trump it s all to basically change the 2024 election. laura: do you think it s election interference. i do. it s the same with the hunter biden laptop. they want to control the narrative in the news. they believe if they can paint president trump guilty of some kind of seditious conspiracy they believe they can convince the american people that they can t elect president trump and that they have to reelect joe biden. laura: how significant is this problem of that entrenched bureaucracy of career civil servants working and burrowed in against any i don t care if it s trump or desantis or someone else, w