Special counsel jack smith against donald trump. In an interview with cnn, maralago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trumps inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. With loyalty prized above everything. A world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. Now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butlers identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbcs request for comment. In his interview last night, butler says he helped trumps codefendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nations most Sensitive National security secrets. Watch. He followed me. He pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed that he had boxes. Oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember. Did you have any idea at the time that there was potentially u. S.
public reporting and witness accounts indicate some individuals and groups engaged in efforts to gather information about the layout of the u.s. capitol as well as the house and senate office buildings in advance of january 6, 2021. they re talking about tours like the ones referenced by congresswoman sheryl in the days just after the insurrection. it was a shocking allegation in those ensuing days and one that raised some of the earliest questions about premeditation of that brutal attack on the capitol. the questions about whether or not sitting members of congress were involved in any way, shape or form in this nearly unprecedented attack on our country. here is congresswoman mikie cheryl back then. those that i saw on january 5th. those members of congress that incited this violent crowd. those members of congress that attempted to help our president undermine our democracy and i ll make sure they are held accountable and if necessary make sure that they don t serve in
Day. yeah, actually, i was handed some more breaking news, dan goldman. this will go to you. to what care leonnig is saying, let me read it to you first. politico just dropped a story that says this. congressional investigators have obtained a batch of official white house photographs, including images taken on january 6th, 2021, according to two sources familiar with the evidence. the previously unreported cache which arrived via the national archives may provide the committee with realtime visual evidence of former president donald trump s actions and movements as a mob of his supporters battered their way into the capitol and threatened the transfer of power to joe biden. at least some of the photos were taken by official white house photographer craighead, the sources indicated. committee chairman bennie thompson confirmed that the panel had obtained some of craighead s photos. though he declined to describe their content.
Times. peter baker, care leonnig, pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter for the washington post , and frank figliuzzi, former assistant director of the fbi for counterintelligence. good evening and welcome to you all. elizabeth, i d like to begin with you. given that you are in management at the paper and given that this is something we struggled with in our own newsroom today and tonight, how do you go about explaining a day like today? it fits no known norms. there is no story file we can reach for, and i know on the conference call every day and every night, new york gives you a certain amount of space in the print edition and on the website. how did you determine how to put what we witnessed today? well, thank you for asking that question. there was a lot of discussion today. i think one of the most extraordinary things i heard today before i completely answer your question is when the president said to jeff mason, are you talking to me? i ve never heard a president of