criminal probe. according to the posts reporting, investigators are honing in on trump s pressure campaign on mike pence to overturn the election. and would instructions trump gave his lawyers and advisers about fake electors and sending electors back to the states. now, on wednesday, cassidy hutchinson, the january 6th committee s super star witness, was the next to name whose name was what came out cooperating with doj investigators. late last, night the washington post dropping another bombshell. text messages during the lead up to january 6th from donald trump s acting secretary chad and cuccinelli are missing and likely to get recovered. the missing texts were reported to the dhs inspector general in february. but cuffari did not press the department leadership at the time to explain why they did not preserve those records, nor seek ways to recover the lost data, according to the four people briefed on the watchdogs actions. cuffari also failed to alert congress to t
had been rescued. some had scrambled on to their roof tops and some just ran for their lives. we ve never seen something like this. folks who deal with this for a living have been doing it for 20 years. have never seen water this high. we still can t get to a lot of people. there s so much water, the current is so strong, it is not safe for some of the water rescues that we need to do. we ll be in the search and rescue certainly today and tomorrow and then we ll be looking at a year s worth of rebuilding. president biden has declared a major disaster across eastern kentucky and the national guard is helping to rescue people. joining us now from clay county, what is the situation where you are? reporter: well, fred, it is really hard, still, to get to the worst of this. this is an ongoing situation. we re not really in the aftermath yet. my cnn crew dave and chris pulled over on the side of the road to talk to you and catch you up on what we are seeing so far. the import
to do so. in the meantime, we are learning more about just how long the national archives worked to retrieve government documents from the former president before the search of mar-a-lago. an email made public shows requests for the return of presidential records were happening even before donald trump left office. okay, let s go to cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider, so, jessica, the doj has submitted their proposed redactions. what happens now? reporter: well, now, we wait, and unfortunately, we don t know h how long we are going to be waiting for. like you said, the filing from prosecutors that came in under seal, so not revealed to the public, just before that noon deadline, and right now, the judge, bruce reinhart, he s reviewing what doj has said they believe is okay to make public. now, it s very likely that most of this affidavit is blacked out with doj s recommendations, because they have made very clear that there is little, if anything, that can be r
document comes out, it will change everything that we know about the search of mar-a-lago. now, there are three relevant documents here, the first two, the search warrant and the property received, those are out in the public. we ve seen those. just for the sake of comparison, the search warrant that is three pages. it s mostly a form you fill out it tells us where the fbi wanted to search and the criminal laws the doj is looking at. it the property seized. that s also three pages. most of those entries just say box of documents. but the affidavit, the affidavit is a game-changer. this is a narrative document that the prosecutor has to write out. i have written more of these than i can even count. they re dozens of pages wouldn t at all surprise me if this were 50 to 100 pages. they list probable cause, you have to list specific evidence. you bring it over to the judge. we know the judge in this case reviewed and approved it. just to make an analogy to prove it. back when w
fbi agents are facing an increasing number of threats as republican leaders stay mostly silent about the danger dangerous rhetoric coming from the right. plus, a preview of liz cheney s primary in wyoming where maga supporters seem to punish here for telling the truth about donald trump. i m tiffany cross in tonight for joy reid. we begin with significant developments and a number of investigations involving former president donald trump. today a federal grand jury investigating the january 6 report has subpoenaed eric hirschman for documents. this makes him the third lawyer along with white house counsel pat sill loney and patrick sylvan. their testimony was featured throughout the january 6th hearings. what this means to donald trump according to andrew weesemen that there is no question that trump is the target of the federal january 6 probe. he added, correct move here, lock people into the grand jury. meanwhile in georgia, have the investigation into trump s alleged