back at home, new developments into the investigation of former president donald trump s handling of classified documents. another grand jury is expected to convene in the case where they are asking what could this mean? and then chris christie expected to throw his hat into the ring tonight. meanwhile, authorities in california are investigating two private planes carrying migrants from the border and dropping them off without warning in california. we will talk to the state s attorney general that says this could mean criminal charges. in florida, calls are growing for the arrest of a woman that shot and killed her neighbor. she knocked on the door, unarmed, no weapons, just wanted answers. we begin this hour with breaking news out of ukraine. overnight an explosion destroyed a critical dam in russian-controlled territory that is threatening tens of thousands of people. ukraine officials are urging residents to evacuate with water levels reaching critical levels withi
john trump is a sexual abuser. six men and three women found him liable for sexually abusing e. jean carroll at a manhattan department store in the 1990s then defaming her about it on his social media site. the jury took under three hours to reach their verdict and award carroll approximately $5 million in damages. in a moment we ll be joined by jessica leeds who testified during the trial that a young donald trump groped her on a flight in the 70s, his lawyers neither put on a defense or called him a as witness leading the plaintiffs to play damaging portions of his testimony and heard the access hollywood tape where he said you could grab women by the genitals and doubled down on that in the deposition. historically it s true with stars. that they can grab women by the if you look over the last million years that s been largely true, not always but largely true. unfortunately or fortunately. and you consider yourself to be a star? i think you can say that, yeah
right as he got in job and he was working as a war crimes officer. jack smith is a career prosecutor. he spept time heading the justice department s public integrity section, and he s experienced in the kind of case he s looking at now. different from mueller who had amazing life experiences, and not the kind of prosecutor that jack smith is. he s from from all of my reporting, he s hands on in the investigation, and very aggressive. the attorney general, merrick garland, said that jack smith is going to make the charging decisions in particular about whether or not to charge former president trump. the only rule garland has is to block any decisions he has outside the bounds of public
right now we know they are under seal but george santos, this republican from new york represents long island and queens, he does face criminal charges that are being brought by federal prosecutors and there are a lot of potential things that he could have what they say is exposure on, but we do know a little about this investigation, we know the federal prosecutor is out of the eastern district of new york so long island that they were investigating him and also people from the justice department s public integrity section and so, anderson, that indicates that it s very likely that he could be facing some liability here related to campaign finance specifically what he was telling the federal government in campaign finance disclosures and there have been lots of questions about the brokering of a major yacht sale between donors, some money that he had loaned to his campaign $700,000 or so that no one really knew where he got that sort of wealth and so there are a lot of questions aroun
mar-a-lago case. joining me right now is ken dilanian. both bill barr and rod rosenstein seem to think a case is likely here. what can you tell us about special counsel jack smith and the job he s now tasked with? jack smith is first and foremost a career prosecutor. he s not a household name. he s not famous, obviously. he began his career in the trenches as a line prosecutor in new york and he worked his way up the chain. he eventually became head of the justice department s public integrity section which is the anticorruption unit and that means he s very familiar with filing high-profile charges against famous politicians, including a case where he prosecuted or he led the prosecution of former senator john edwards over alleged campaign violations and edwards was famously acquitted on one count and there was a mistrial on the other counts in that case. that was a failure for the doj. it showed that he was willing to bring a high-profile marginal case. he thought it was importan