manhattan d.a. alvin bragg taking legal action agains republican jim jordan, and president biden s latest comments on his plans for 2024 let s take a look at some of the week s top stories the manhattan district attorne leading the prosecution of donald trump is now suing a to house republican alvin bragg filed the lawsui against judiciary committe chairman jim jordan yesterda in response to what bragg call a brazen and unconstitutiona attack by members of congres on an ongoing criminal prosecution. bragg has come under increased scrutiny to put it mildly by the ohio republican since it became lightly that the former president would be charged i new york city. calling on the game solved t testify before congress, jorda issued a subpoena last week, ordering a former prosecutor i the case to appear before th judiciary committee. in the new lawsuit, the de asked a court to block tha subpoena, arguing that it coul cause irreparable harm to th case if certain secret materia is dis
i m taking charge of my cholesterol with garlique. well good evening everyone, i am laura coats and this is cnn tonight. now president biden is responding this evening to the discovery of at least ten classified documents in his former private office. people know i take classified documents, classified information seriously. i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any duck government records taken there to that office. but i don t know what is in the documents, my lawyers have not suggested i ask what documents they were. i have turned over the boxes, they have turned over the boxes to the archives and are cooperating fully, cooperating fully with the review which i hope will be finished soon. well the documents were discovered on wait for it, november 2nd. from joe biden s time as vice president, including with any u.s. intelligence memos and briefing materials about ukraine and iran in the uk. we are learning exclusively at cnn that a cou
significant leak really in terms of opening a new can o concerns here, you have a very youn individual who has access, somehow, perhaps through a burned back, perhaps through his duties in the i.t. world but then he is picking it, tearing it out, a photocopying it, and putting it in privat chat rooms that is a tough problem to crack from a counter intelligence perspective and i think a pentagon spokesman is right need to focus on the fact that this is a insider threat all of this sophisticate counter cyber surveillance would not have stopped this. what would stop it is tracking who has that kind of access. it is more of a human personal problem then it is a surveillance problem, willie yeah, and the fact that h even had access to it at 2 years old as an internationa
that is according to what we know from the media reporting and what the white house counsel set, is what happened. i want to still see what comes out more details wise i m, not just taking their word for it but if that is what transpired here than in terms of at least joe biden, he s in the clear. he did what you are supposed to do. donald trump is the case study in how to get yourself into more trouble when you didn t have to be and how to take off the justice department. on that point, the idea that we are thinking about not taking one s word for, spoken like a true lawyer, i m not going to take your word for it, i wonder if you are looking at this in your trying to think about how to evaluate and assess ones accountability, or to trust somebody, he could easily say i didn t know. and some talking points already saying, isn t that what trump would say? why is this so different? how do you see it? from a counter intelligence perspective, laura, you are looking at the material it
know the answer to that. i think he should release it. i think we should know that answer. at the white house, communications director kate benningfield said this about donald trump s request. so what i would say about that is what kind of american, let alone an ex-president thinks that this is the right time to enter into a scheme with vladimir putin and brag about his connections to vladimir putin. there is only one, and it s donald trump. joining me now is peter strzok, former deputy assistant director at the fbi counter intelligence division. he led the fbi investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. he s also the author of compromised counter intelligence and the threat of donald j. trump, i took a bite of lentils during the break, and they re getting stuck in my throat. i apologize. let me ask you about where we stand right now right now with russia from a u.s. intelligence perspective, from a counter intelligence perspective, what