of his cabinet, or a near cabinet level official could authorize other government officials to know the details of those special access programs. even more sensitive than we knew to this point, and, of course, kept in an unsecured facility. if confirmed, it means the documents containing another nation s nuclear secrets and some of the u.s. most highly guarded top secret operations were sitting in an unsecured country club for more than 18 months. after repeated requests to return those documents. and another major story we are following this morning, this one out of memphis, tennessee, the man now charged with the death of 34-year-old eliza fletcher is facing multiple murder charges in her kidnapping and death, expected in court, in the next hour. we re going to bring you updates live, more in a moment. first, we want to begin with our top story this hour, the washington post story reporting a document detailing a foreign government s military defenses including its nuc
highly classified, you go to jail for that. and you go to jail for that. you should know that. classified information. you should go to jail for that for many, many years. lock him up, lock him up. jimmy kimmel with a mashup of donald trump s words concerning other people s mishandling of classified documents. but, wow, meanwhile, stunning new reporting this morning that the nuclear secrets of a foreign government were among the materials seized from mar-a-lago. we ll have the latest on that. plus, steve bannon set to be indicted. how the case related to fundraising shows the limits of the pardon he received from donald trump. and caught on tape, new video shows a fake elector in the 2020 election. escorting members of a tech firm into a georgia elections office on the same day a breach was detected. we ll explain how this ties into the overall election scheme. we re also following the latest in the fight over control in congress. new polling on the impact of the ab
not be upended the way the manafort charges were. and as long as the evidence supports it, i think this case will go to trial and the jury will decide his fate. and the manhattan d.a. s office picked up on this case pretty quickly after former president trump pardoned bannon. former u.s. attorney barbara mcquade, thank you. good to hear before you. mika. also, newly obtained surveillance video from georgia shows a fake elector escorts members of a tech firm into the coffee county election office in january 2021, moments before election day was breached. in the video you can see the then chairwoman of the coffee county gop cathy latham. look up, there s a camera above you. holding, opening the door for members of sullivanstrickler, a data security company hired by
come after bannon allegedly defrauded donors. people will remember, you know, we will build the wall. that whole campaign. people gave money for that. they gave $25 million according to federal prosecutors. where did the money go? so you remember bannon was initially indicted on federal charges in a fraud scheme relating to this fund-raising effort back in august of 2020. he was arrested on a yacht in off the coast of connecticut. prosecutors allege then that they had misled the donors by telling them that all of the money they raised would go toward the construction of that wall, but instead prosecutors said that a million dollars of it went to fund personal expenses of bannon and his co-con co-conspirators. the former president trump had pardoned bannon, just as he was leaving office. and that s when the manhattan district attorney s office opened their state investigation into bannon and into this same fund-raising effort. now, because bannon was not prosecuted, he was indic
really did get anybody else to pay for it. bannon never faced any criminal prosecution from that case because on the eve of trump s departure from office, he pardoned bannon, but bannon wasn t the only person who was accused in the scheme. three others, who were not granted clemency, faced charges yesterday. one of those men, brian, a veteran who lost three limbs serving his country in iraq, pleaded guilty, admitting to taking more than $350,000 in donations for his own personal expenses. chuck is back with us. chuck, other than sort of revealing how gross donald trump s pardons were for people that had committed real crimes for which others are paying hefty prices, what is sort of the what is the significance of the other sort of co-defendants, if he hadn t been pardoned, facing these consequences? yeah. it s a great question, nicole. so, four people were originally