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let s get right to the just released report by the special counsel john durham in its conclusions about the trump/russia investigation. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez has been going over the roughly 300-page report. evan, give us the top lines. reporter: well, wolf, this report contains a lot of harsh criticism for the fbi, especially former fbi leadership that oversaw the trump/russia investigation. in the end john durham spent four years in this investigation. this is a 300-page report. he concludes that while the fbi had reason to launch, perhaps, an assessment or a preliminary investigation, much lower-level investigations, he believes that there was a lot of exculpatory evidence that the fbi was ignoring and that they should not have launched, essentially, a full-blown investigation. i ll read you just a part of what he concludes as part of this report. he says that the fbi discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support t ....
another trump investigation heating up the special counsel in the mar-a-lago classified documents case right now, coming through notes, texts, emails and even photographs. it s new evidence. so how significant is it? and who is the judge? trump claims hates him. we have a special report. let s go, outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight. trump s back in new york, and this is video just in to cnn of trump arriving at trump tower right here in new york, his former home. it is there where the former president is said to be huddling with advisors ahead of tomorrow s arraignment, where he will spend the night and, of course, then he will get up and go downtown in new york city. this is the building where he is expected to surrender in the manhattan criminal courthouse. unclear exactly what time tomorrow how early it will be. right now we are standing by for what could be two major developments at any moment. the judge in the case is expected to side whether ....
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They brought the charges they did and what the underlying significance is bringing this case now, some. six or seven years after these hush money payments were initially made, erin all right, kara, thank you very much, and i want to go now to trump tower. jeff zeleny is outside there. and what are you learning, jeff? erin. we re learning tonight that the former president after he arrived here , he met with his political advisors as well as his legal advisers. and for all these circus like atmosphere, and for all the spectacle that indeed has been surrounding this, the former president his team are taking this very seriously. that was underscored today by the hiring of a new criminal defense attorney also underscored by the fact that tomorrow i m told his lawyers are going to do via talking. the former president of at least is not scheduled or expected to speak here about the charges. he s going to save that, of course, until he returns to mar-a-lago in florida tomorrow evening, but for ....
But i think worth merited meriting a mention one. quick final point. lenny, you told dana bash my friend yesterday that both michael cohen and david pecker from the national enquirer provided evidence about a hush money payment that could be illegal made on trump s behalf to karen macdougal, a former playmate. play playboy model in the summer of 2016, so that would have been before the payment to stormy daniels. are you aware of any evidence on this that would implicate donald trump directly? well, i was you summarize what i said correctly , erin, but i was quoting from the wall street journal article. i can t reveal what i heard and saw in the room when michael was interviewed the documents and clearly there have been public reports that mr pecker was granted immunity and that michael cohen pled guilty to two crimes. one was the stormy daniels hush money paid. the other was his facilitation of an arrangement between mr pecker and mr trump for the buying of silence of karen mcdougal. s ....