into potential efforts to obstruct the probe. abc news reports, quote, special counsel jack smith in recent weeks transmitted a target letter to the staff are indicating that he might have perjured himself or made an appearance before the federal grand jury here in evidence that the document probe. targeted letters to the employee, which was the trumps organization handling at the surrounds footage and and version two sharing it with investigators. msnbc news has not independently verified that reporting. i should note here, a target letter does not mean that you have been charged with a crime or de necessarily he will. instead, lets the subject at the investigation know that there are a target, facing the possibility of an indictment. abc reached out to the employee to ask about the important target letter. he told them, quote, it s none of your business, which will maybe be dike s until he is efforts arched. new york times reported that jack smith s team has been zeroing
service and fbi have come up empty, failing to find fingerprints, video or dna to link any individual to that small bag of cocaine found in a west wing lobby. another massive hack from china on u.s. organizations, reaching as far as the in box of the secretary of commerce, even as secretary of state blinken today was trying to warm up relations with a top chinese official in indonesia. i will get reaction this hour from senate intelligence committee chairman mark warner. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell back from the nato summit in lithuania. president biden continuing his foreign trip in finland today, nato s newest member. was pressed whether the allies could trust the u.s. to remain in nato despite opposition by trump republicans to remain in the alliance. president biden also was trying to patch over differences the u.s. has with allies, including great britain, our closest ally, over not giving ukraine a clearer time line of when it could join nato once the wa
senate confirmed directors, and those directors all have a few things in common. they are all white men. they all favor a clean cut look, and each and every one of them, every senate confirmed director since the dawn of the fbi has been a republican. that includes current fbi director christopher wray, who was appointed by donald trump. but you would not get that impression, given the way director wray s fellow republicans attacked him in his agency during a hearing today on capitol hill. when the court says the fbi misled, that s a nice way of saying they lied. how many individuals were either fbi employees, or people that the fbi made contact with, we re in the january 6th entry of the capital? i m going to make the assumption that there is more than one, more than five, more than ten. i will say this notion that somehow the violence at the capitol ungenerous six was part of some operation orchestrate by fbi sources and their agents is ludicrous. your job s review w
ahead on cnn newsroom, an intense heat wave is scorching the u.s. this weekend with some temperatures topping 110 degrees. parts of europe bake under their own heat wave. we take you live to rome for the latest. it s a demon that walks among us. a predator that ruined families. officials announce a breakthrough in a series of unsolved decade s old murder cases. how police found him. seeks to join one of the most exclusive clubs on the planet. the race to the moon. we begin with a dangerous weeks long heat wave that s getting worse this weekend as a heat dome intensifies and reaches peak strength over parts of the western united states. 85 million americans are under heat alerts after the heat dome expanded into california, which is now experiencing its first extreme heat wave of the year. it s already been dangerously hot for weeks in texas, florida, and arizona, where phoenix is in the middle of a record-breaking streak of consecutive 110-degree days. the intense hea
investigations into the current president s family. ted lieu, democrat of california, set to orient facts as they exist on earth one. watch. let me ask you a series of basic questions to get facts out to the american people about our system of justice. trump adviser roger stone was convicted in a federal court, correct? that s my recollection. trump donor elliott brady was convicted in a federal court. correct? also my recollection. the attorney general at the time for those two convictions was bill barr, which president nominated bill barr for attorney general? president trump. you were the fbi director for all of those cases at the time. which president nominated you? president trump. okay. what these facts show is we don t have a two-tiered system of justice. we have one department of justice that goes after criminals regardless of party idealogy. all of these folks were convicted under the administrations of three separate republican attorneys general. i