the house has just sealed a critical win for the democrats. giving final congressional approval to a landmark climate, health care and tax bill and sending it to president biden to sign into law. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re following major breaking news. a federal judge unsealing the mar-a-lago search warrant a little while ago at the request of the u.s. justice department. there s a lot to unpack this hour. let s go to katelyn polance. what does the fbi say they found in the search? i m looking at the itemized list handed to former donald trump s lawyers whenever the fbi left and it is 33 items ultimately that were seized from mar-a-lago as possible evidence of crime. among that list there are 11 sets of documents that appear to be classified or confidential at some level in the u.s. government. in one there s a box of documents noted that has various classified documents inc
Cite as the other crime trump allegedly intended to commit or conceal . And second and perhaps most important, will the jury be allowed to consider misdemeanors as well . I want to bring in nbcs Vaughn Hillyard live outside the courthouse. Chuck rosenberg and Catherine Christian are both with us here in the studio. So chuck, explain how this decision may go and how the judge may frame the instructions, which could be really determinative as to whether a jury that might be confused or conflicted might be looking for an Exit Strategy other than a guilty verdict. So some context might be helpful. The jury has heard all the facts. The judge will now instruct the jury on the law. Itll be their map to apply the facts that they heard to the law as they are instructed. The way the two sides, the prosecutors and the defense sort of fight it out, andrea, to get their preferred Jury Instructions read to the jury. This all takes place at the thing thats about to start, a charging conference. A lot
Situation room. The lead with jake tapper starts right now cnns Breaking News welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We are following Breaking News out of Donald Trumps Hush Money Cover Up Trial in New York City were right, this i mean, it Michael Cohen is facing an incredibly aggressive crossexamination so far, trump attorney todd blanche has gotten cohen to confirm that he wants to see trump convicted in this case, that he makes money off of his antitrump social media posts and even sells merchandise showing trump in jail. Earlier today, prosecutors had cohen explained why he felt there was the Pressure Campaign to keep him from turning against trump. And how and why he eventually flipped from a loyal confidant to a cooperating witness. Prosecutors also tried to get ahead of the defense by having cohen admit to multiple lines. He has previously told including his plea of not guilty his plea of guilty to the tax charges the sent him to prison cohen also owned up to the fact that he lied
Dont go anywhere. I will be back with Rachel Maddow and the whole gang for special Coverage Of Trump On Trial that starts right now. The expresident of the United States. Two american courtrooms. Facing Criminal Trial in one. I will go in now and sit. And making a desperate case to avoid justice in the other. We will hear arguments this morning in trump versus the United States. Tonight, new testimony of the alleged criminal conspiracy to help elect donald trump. Reporter trump turned to the business at hand and asked david pecker, how is our girl . As his argument for absolute immunity finally goes before the Supreme Court. This court has never recognized absolute criminal immunity for any public official. A private attorney who was willing to spread false claims of Election Fraud what was up with the pardon for president nixon . If everybody thought president s couldnt be prosecuted, what was that about . If it fails completely it is because we have destroyed our democracy. Tonight,
that donald trump and those around him may be facing which is january 6. this is not an investigation we were talking about recently and trump s lawyers thought it stalled out and taken aback by mefr rick garland and we have been learning about the investigation around january 6 and that conversation died down talking so much about this but we know that donald trump has a lot of legal issues potentially on the hands now and needs a lot of lawyers to be untangling exactly what may be lying down the path for him. the people and him, the phones seized. john eastman who was an elections lawyer for him. jeffrey clark at the justice department and wanted to make into the attorney general. there s a privilege fight in court regarding the presidency