good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, there are tapes. cnn learning that some trump allies are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of fbi agents searching his mar-a-lago home. we don t know what is on the tapes or not on the tapes. the footage has been held so close to the vest that a source close to the president tells cnn they re not sure if trump himself has even seen the whole thing. now, trump s son, eric, has been happy to talk about it, saying they re ready for the whole world to see the tapes. you still have the surveillance tape, is that correct? are you allowed to share that with the country? absolutely, sean, at the right time. absolutely, at the right time. well, the context here is we are awaiting a key decision on the mar-a-lago search. in just hours, the judge who approved the fbi search of mar-a-lago is holding a hearing, and the hearing is specifically on the merits of unsealing the affidavit. that was the affidavit that wa
he s thumbing his nose at a congressional committee. he talked about afghanistan and he talked about the border, bringing in all kinds of other things that had nothing to do with january 6. he s defying, openly defying the committee here, and not to pay a consequence for it. right now it s a voluntary request, but a subpoena is on the horizon. michael flynn is now suing the january 6 committee. he s the eighth person to do so by the way, including trump himself. so what s the strategy here, are they hoping to bog down the committee and run out the clock? it s really delay and trying to slow things down. there aren t many useful lawsuits that somebody can bring to go after the committee. what they re doing is challenging and saying it s not an official, again, duley exercised or duley authorized
thank you for joining us. why do you feel so compelled to raise the alarm? wolf, thank you very much for inviting me. the intent of the op-ed is to bring up the possibility that the armed forces of the united states could be infected by what we are watching develop in the republican party. we tend to be a conservative lot. the military installations have a constant feed of fox news going in there, and what we have got is an opportunity for the republican party, 39% who don t believe that joe biden is the duley elected president of the united states, 17% of the republican party espoused the use of violence in a future election. we ve got 10% of those charged during the insurrection on 6
duley note for the members, it s my understanding we re going to have two recorded votes at 12:00. my intention is to start the closed hearing immediately after the second vote. and we would like to make some closing statements. i do want to take the the subj conversation in the closed section. would you share for them who khalid sheikh muhammad is, and nasari? shareman, thank you. khalid sheikh muhammad was the architect and master mind of the 9/11 attacks. his nephew, ramsey yusef, was behind the 93 attack on the world trade center, and sheikh muhammad financed that
all career people who care about their reputations and don t want to be known for defending donald trump in a duley instituted investigation, they re not going to do this. so he s got to clear out the whole leadership of the justice department if he wants to get rid of mueller, the way nixon did in the saturday night massacre. i said in the open he s in that territory. we all know that s what he wants to do. the issue is what s holding him back? because he does what he wants to do. the only thing that s holding him back midterms. i think it s more congressional republicans, just by a thread they are telling him you can t do that. that is a red line. and as soon as they start to go shaky, he will do it. okay. i have the code of the federal regulations on the firing of the special counsel, title 28, chapter 6, part 600, section d. there it is. special counsel may be disciplined or removed from office only by the personal