He faces four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States and to deny voters the right to have their ballots counted. Live now to tim heaphy, former lead investigator for the house january 6th select committee. Thank you so much forjoining us. I think for people who perhaps havent covered every twist and turn of the story, just explain to us why that january 6th select committee was so crucial to what we are seeing now . Facts are what makes cases and determines outcomes, and the select committee uncovered the core facts here. Congress created the select committee to investigate the facts and circumstances surrounding the attack on the capitol, and thats what we did through a series of hearings and ultimately and 845 page report. The committee set forth the core allegations that remain allegations against mr trump, he and his Co Conspirators specifically intended to prevent the transfer of power. So the indictment is built on a determination of fact by the select committe
now. it is turning out to be an unusual news day which may be in part a function of the holiday i don t think so i think it is just turning out to be an unusual news day. this remarkable search and rescue operation is still underway about 370 miles off the coast of new foundland in the north atlantic a sub marine is an autonomous submersible, as opposed to a sub marine, goes under the water but it is not autonomous it has to use a ship or a surface platform as a kind of home base to which it is linked. the vehicle that has been lost, that they are lack for right now, is a submersible. the ship from which it launched lost contact with it yesterday about 1:45 after it started a dive the dive was supposed to be about two and a half hours down. three hours on the bottom of the ocean, and then another two and a half hours back. it was supposed to be about eight hours beneath the waves. about 1:45 into that mission, they reportedly lost communication. on the submersible, there are
ship or surface platform of some kind as a kind of home base of which it is linkedch the vehicle that has been lost, that they re looking for right now is the ship from which it launched lost contact with it yesterday about an hour and 45 minutes after it45 started a dive. the dive was supposed to be about 2 1/2 hours down, 3 hours on the bottom of the ocean, and another 2 hours back. so it was supposed to be about 8 hours beneath the waves, but about an hour and three quarters into thatre 8-hour mission they reportedly lost communication. on thisre submersible there are five peoplesu onboard. the reason they were going down the reason they were in that part of the north atlantic is because they were planning to gotl look at the shipwrecked rus of it titanic. again, it should have been about 2 1/2 hours diving down roughly 2 miles to see the shipwreck, about 3 hours they were down looking at it, poking around, and then another 2 1/2 hours coming up those 2 miles back throug
victor blackwell back with us. um i m so happy to be back for real. this is real. like for good for good. yes i am so happy to be back. we ll talk more about that in just a moment, because there s a lot going on today. there sure is. well, here s what we re watching this morning. when it came through. it sounds like helicopter real real fast, and it came so fast and quick. we can do nothing but get up on the cover. severe storms ripping through parts of the south more than 20 people are dead and more than 100,000 customers without power. one mississippi town described as quote gone are isabelle rose. salas is there another legal blow for former president trump ? some of his closest advisors are forced to testify in two justice department investigations. judge says trump cannot claim executive privilege to keep them from testifying the united states does not does not emphasis seek conflict with iran. but be prepared, frustrate , act forcefully protect our people. president bid
congress that her agency is conducting a damage assessment from the classified documents found at former president donald trump s home. reporter: top intelligence official avril haynes sent a letter to two chairs of committees in the house of representatives where she confirmed for the very first time that a damage assessment will be done of the documents that were recovered from mar-a-lago. let me read for you from this letter. she told the lawmakers, quote, that the department of justice and the office of the director of national intelligence are working together to facilitate a classification review of relevant materials including those recovered during the search. okay. that means they re going to do a review to figure out how classified these documents were. there s a few different levels of classification. and they re going to figure that out first. she went on to say, odni, that s the director of national intelligence, will also lead an intelligence community assessm