Retrieve clearly relate to that time period, right around the election. All those materials could be relevant. Its fairly typical for prosecutors to obtain social media from the platforms like twitter, like facebook and others. I think the only reason this is getting so much attention is that they resisted in this case, and it had to go to the Appeals Court to get timely compliance. But clearly the evidence here that is important to jack smith in the investigators. So im sure well see pieces of that during the trial. Thats right. Twitter, elon musk, resisted, and the company was fined 350,000 bucks for delaying the execution of that Search Warrant. Were also still learning more on the previously secret memo laying out a plan and a roadmap for the fake electors scheme that was to overturn the 2020 election. Theres a lot in this memo, and i think with the memo really does here is contextualize all the events we have been getting, from the january six subcommittee, and from this indictmen
Night. Good evening once again. Im stephanie ruhle. We begin this evening with the scope of the Special Counsel jack smiths investigation into donald trump and new signs that it is still growing. The latest revelation that investigators executed a Search Warrant of Donald Trumps twitter account and the company had to be held in contempt by a federal judge before handing over the material. Here is one former prosecutor on the kind of evidence that they must have been looking for. The twitter files that the Justice Department wants to retrieve clearly relate to that time period, right around the election. All those materials could be relevant. Its fairly typical for prosecutors to obtain social media from the platforms like twitter, like facebook and others. I think the only reason this is getting so much attention is that they resisted in this case, and it had to go to the Appeals Court to get timely compliance. But clearly the evidence here that is important to jack smith in the invest
lawyer is the least experienced lawyer in the case and has never handled high pressure federal litigation. the new york times reports that the 34-year-old lawyer, sasha dadan, quote, has limited experience with the federal courts. her name doesn t appear at all in pacer the nationwide database federal cases. but she has handled numerous local cases in fort pierce, florida. that is where judge aileen mercedes cannon, who is overseeing mr. trump s prosecution, is based and where the former president s trial with mr. nauta will eventually be held. ms. dadan has been active in republican politics mounting an unsuccessful campaign for the florida house in 2018. the application for search warrant of trump s florida home, that reveals that before he was codefendant walt nauta, the justice department and fbi referred to him as witness five. the revelation came after judge bruce ryan how reinhart unredacted more sentences of the affidavit used by the justice department to obtain a s
very good thursday morning to you. i m jim sciutto. i m bianna golodryga. right now the biden administration intensifying its efforts to slow the spread of monkeypox. starting monday, hhs will make an additional 1.8 million vaccine doses available. the administration also taking steps to offer protection for the most vulnerable populations, making more vaccine available for places hosting large lgbtqi events. this comes as the cdc reports more than 13,500 monkeypox cases across the country. we re following a critical day in court in south florida. federal judge will consider requests to unseal investigators probable cause affidavit for the fbi search of former president trump s mar-a-lago home. the doj opposing its release saying that keeping the information secret is vital to this investigation. let s begin today in south florida, cnn s senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz is there, covering this for some time. we spoke to a lot of lawyers leading up to thi
justice department s opposition to a judge appointing a so-called special master to examine some of the government records seized by the fbi at donald trump s florida home. neal katyal, andrew weissmann, and matt miller will give us the expert analysis. the most important thing to keep in mind, the single most important thing to know about the trump lawyers filing tonight is that it does not say one word about something included in the justice department s filing last night. it could get some of the trump lawyers indicted for obstruction of justice. one of the very important pieces of evidence in the justice department s filing last night is a copy of an under oath affidavit written by one of the trump s lawyers, inside and signed by one of the other trump lawyers, swearing under oath on that day that at that moment they were handing over to the fbi and a federal prosecutor a trump s home, all of the government documents that were at donald trump s home at that time, everyt