been talking to the special counsel, and jack smith responds to trump team s efforts to delay the documents trial. also tonight, how conservative republicans managed to attach restrictions on abortion access to a key defense bill, and what that could do to the chances of getting it through congress. later, without being able the say who left a pact of cocaine in the west wing, the secret service still says case closed. why? good evening. jack smith decides to charge the former president for his role in trying to overturn the election, being able to show his intent will be critical. and showing a ten could hinge on whether or not he believed he had won. tonight there is new evidence that smith is thinking along those lines, and is looking for evidence for people who know or heard him indicate he d lost. jared kushner and hope hicks have both gone before the grand jury, and some of the questions asked was whether the former president was told he lost the election. other mem
Allowed the doj to continue its probe into the handling of classified material while the special master reviewed thousands of other documents. judge cannon also ruled that trump did not have to officially declare in court whether fbi agents planted items at mar-a-lago, something trump and his al plies have repeatedly said in public. the special master had requested trump prove hiss claims, but cannon stepped in and stopped it. judge cannon has not responded to cnn s request for comment on her decisions, but when asked in 2020 during her confirmation if she had any discussions about royalty to president trump, she unequivocally wrote no. do you think she has any bias toward trump? i don t think she has any bias at all. reporter: jason mendra worked with cannon a decade ago. we never talked about politics or judicial philosophy because it wasn t relevant to what we were doing. i still don t know anything about her politics today. reporter: she wasn t overtly political? no.