it, everything that we ve heard late in the broadcast, but first we have some new cnn reporting to bring to you, let s get straight from cnn s evan perez on that. evan, good evening to you, mark meadows i hear responding to a subpoena from the doj, what are you hearing? what are you learning? yeah, don lopez has been one of the big mysteries during all of the recent uptick in activity from the justice department. what happened to mark meadows? now we know the answer. the answer is that he has responded, he has complied with a subpoena from the justice department, part of the january six investigation, now this makes him the highest ranking trump official to comply with a subpoena as part of this criminal investigation. in addition to him, we also know that ben williams in one of his aides, a very top aide, of mark meadows, has also been subpoenaed as part of this big push. we recently reported that more than 30 subpoenas went out in the trump orbit. now with mark meadows, w
as always, a great show. this is don lemon tonight, and i am laura coates sitting in for donovan. there are big developments on the fbi search for documents and former president donald trump s marlowe go home. the wall street journal reporting tonight that an informant tipped off federal investigators that they were more likely to have more classified documents at the property at the national archives. they took away 15 boxes of material earlier this year. an informant amar legault? cnn has not confirmed this part of the story, but we have reported investigators believe down trump has not returned all documents. they also believe that trump representatives are not being entirely honest with them. trump, meanwhile, since to be hiding behind a 5th amendment, which is his right to do, and he did so today during today s admission with new york attorney generals office, who is investigating the trump organization. i will give you my take on that, a little later in the show. for no
But then they found their line in the postelection attempting to throw the results of a free and fair election, declared by chris scripts as the most secure election in american history, it was one of those dramatic things to watch. and vaughn was one of the reporters was on the ground when a lot of that unfolded. when you look at that, you see the arc of at least one possible case, is to charge this. either way that check jack smith did, using the local laws, local activities, which is a long running multi prolong conspiracy. what is the significance, though, of charging conduct up to 2021? i heard the reporting. what does that mean charging the defrauding in a longer time span? again, i want to be very careful we actually have a judge who may give us thoughts on this as well. the documents that leaked which may or may not be a predicate, right? and then, vans reporting that match this. we re gonna learn this together tonight. when you take that to september 21, those are late
That makes him the highest to have responded to a subpoena in the federal investigation back with me to now. our panel ellie, are cut contact with meadows if s former chief of staff feels the heat from any possible legal exposure, is there a chance that he can become more cooperative with the investigators in the future? absolutely, don, that s how people flip. if you gave me as a prosecutor if you said to me, you can have any persons cooperation, full and truthful cooperation in this will matter, i trust mark meadows i think he is perfectly situated if he comes fully clean to be the ideal cooperator. now it s important to know that he is not there. yet this reporting only shows part of the way. according to evans reporting, he s only turned over the same items that he already turned over to the committee when he knows that he was top of cooperation with the. that s not full cooperation. as i know, we don t do partial cooperation.
So, we can only imagine that there was a high degree of vetting and confirmation and in what they presented to the judge, because as we know, the judge read that affidavit and signed the search warrant indicating that he found it credible, that there is was probable cause of crime in the premises. that, ultimately, is the only standard we need to worry about. looking at the screen, we can probably all confirm, you are looking at three skeptics. three walk skeptics walk into a bar, and we will all think to ourselves, why should i trust you, give me a reason to do so. then there is the idea, and i want to rely on you here, elliott, because you have been a deputy assistant attorney general in the department of justice. and let me tell you, we are hearing, from evans reporting, that that seems to be some disagreement, shall we say, about whether to be public or not. some want to go public and make a statement about the search. do you think that is the right