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
Breaking news this morning. Five americans are on a plane, one step closer to their freedom after being wrongfully detained for years in iran. We are live in qatar which is their first stop and where they are expected to touchdown any moment. In georgia, a hearing a under way for one of Donald Trumps codefendants where one of the defendants is asking his case to be moved from a State Court Into Federal court, and will it fail like mark meadows did. And how, a irs agent is saying that his rights were failed. With kate bolduan and sara sidner, im john berman and this is cnn news central. Five prisoners in iran wrongfully detained are expected to arrive in qatar by jet. And talking ging about siamak , emad sharghi, morad tahbaz and two other Unidentified Americans will be headed to america. And now 6 billion will be available to iran for humanitarian reason, and five iranian held prisoners will be released as well. Becky anderson is in doha, and what is the very latest that you are hearin
another. obviously, we have to look at this more closely. but that seems to be who they are describing. the thing to watch for is whether there are additional charges. stay with me. ken dilanian at the department of justice with more information. ken? reporter: i think what you just read is very significant aspect of this indictment that we didn t see coming. the january 6th committee had a whole hearing about this. one of the most compelling days with senior former senior justice department officials testifying about this scheme to use the justice department and this letter that was drafted by jeffrey clark, a lower level official at the justice department, that he wanted the justice department to send out i believe there was one to georgia, but others to other states, saying we, the justice department, have found fraud and we have significant concerns about fraud and we think you should call your legislature into special session. many observers said had that letter gone out on just
testifying to the january six investigation, his name is jeffrey clark. former trump justice clark, you might remember, he s the one that trump reportedly tried to install as attorney general. the best we can tell from public reporting, trump seemed to like the cut of his jib, after jeff clark drafted a letter that he insisted must go out on justice department letterhead, to some of the states that trump lost, including georgia. this letter, that was reportedly drafted by jeff clark was addressed to the state government instate georgia, and was going to be sent to other states as well, the letter falsely stated that the u.s. justice department was investigating serious credible claims of fraud and the election. that the state legislator, there, should consider holding back jeff crowd drafted this letter
from our states, five states, after that happened, at least one trump loyalist at the department of justice, the u.s. department of justice, was aware that republicans had done this in multiple states. now, one of the trump officials who has pled the fifth, invoked his fifth amendment rights against self-indiscrimination to avoid testifying to the january 6th investigation, his name is jeffrey clark. clark, he s the one trump reportedly tried to install as attorney general right at the end. best we can tell from public reporting, trump seemed to like the cut of his jib after jeff clark drafted a letter that he insisted must go out on justice department letterhead to some of the states that trump lost, including georgia. this letter that was reportedly drafted by jeff clark was addressed to the state government in georgia, it was reportedly going to be sent to multiple other states as well.