is seeking to compel a lawyer for the former president to testify before the grand jury. according to a source familiar with the matter. prosecutors alleged in a sealed filing that they have evidence that some of trump s conversations with the attorney were in furtherance of a crime. the special counsel is reportedly asking a judge to invoke the crime fraud exception. and force an attorney to testify under oath about conversations between him and his client which in this case, would be evan corcoran and one donald trump. the new york times which was first to report the news at the special counsel is zeroing in on this quote, whether trump or his associates obstructed justice in failing to comply with demands to return a trove of government material he took with him from the white house upon leaving office, including hundreds of documents with classified markings. one potentially very important piece of evidence determining whether the ex-president or his attorneys obstructe
rocket attacks in 24 hours as the military steps up its assault in ukraine. our reporters are here to cover all of the latest developments and we start there. nbc s richard engel is in dnipro, ukraine, this latest barrage of missiles, give us the latest we know about what s happening on the ground there. reporter: so ukrainians are shrugging it off. they so far say that the russian offensive, which was launched about two weeks ago, is not shaping up to be as devastating as province, the head of ukrainian intelligence earlier today said the russian offensive appears to be of such low quality that some field commanders don t even know that it has begun, that there has been intense activity from the russian side around bakhmut where we have been reporting over the last couple of weeks, but that in other areas, the russians are running so low on ammunition on artillery shells they are now in an ammunition conservation mode. so, yes, they are still able to launch rockets at unde
we ll have more in a moment. the revelation comes the same day that the january 6th committee said it may delay further hearings after the one scheduled tomorrow. the reason, according to one of its members, a deluge of new evidence, in his words. he didn t elaborate, saying that only the new information goes beyond what we learned about yesterday, the existence of a documentary crew s interview with the former president and his family recorded before and after january 6th. those recordings have been turned over to the committee. the report of federal subpoenas comes a day after we learned two vital pieces of evidence. first was testimony that directly linked the former president to the plot. what did the president say when he called you? essentially, he turned the call over to mr. eastman, who then proceeded to talk about the importance of the rnc helping the campaign gather these contingent electors in case any of the legal challenges that were ongoing changed the resul
election. once again in the spotlight, no one other than wisconsin s senator ron johnson. after the committee revealed on tuesday that one of his top staffers messaged an aide to vice president mike pence about johnson passing fake slates of trump electors for wisconsin and michigan to vice president mike pence by hand on january 6th. a pence aide promptly shut it down texting the johnson staffer this, quote. do not give that to him, end quote, but that attempted handoff still begs many questions like what did ron johnson know about the scheme to set up false electors which is under criminal investigation by the justice department. here s johnson on capitol hill dodging questions from reporters. how much did you know about what your chief of staff was doing with the alternate slates of electors? no, you re not. i can see your phone. i can see your screen. did you know what your chief of staff was doing? does your chief of staff still work for you, sir? can you expla
that of overwhelming. the overwhelming nature of the evidence. how in the world can you bring a case like this? so this is an effort to say, you can do it. you break it into bite-sized pieces, and you sort of recognize the phases of what trump was involved in, and you prove that case, and then there are specific acts. we re focusing significantly on the phony elector schemes in seven states and people involved in those and trump s key role in all of that, and that becomes, you know, the basis for false claim allegations. right, and let me just ask you on that in particular, and on the question of state of mind, because, you know, his just trying to channel what his lawyers would argue. they would argue that, no, actually my client did believe that the election was stolen from him. now of course, there was plenty of evidence that he did acknowledge he lost, but there s also plenty of evidence that advisers were telling him that he did not lose, and that the