From House Democrats. Its such a body blow to our democracy. Just how far reaching was this effort by the Justice Department . Hello, im dana bash in washington where the state of our union is trying to mend fences and build bridges. As President Biden is welcomed back to the club at the g7 summit in europe, he is also preparing for a closelywatched summit with russian president Vladimir Putin as tensions between the two countries continue to rise. The president will take questions from reporters this hour. We will bring that Press Conference to you live when it happens. In the meantime, the president s priorities here at home from infrastructure to Voting Rights have run smack into the reality of a 50 50 senate. And late this week, a stunning new revelation prompted an uproar on capitol hill and beyond. We learned the trump Justice Department seized Cell Phone Data from the former president s political enemies including members of congress. And joining me now exclusively is the House
throughout at least early tuesday morning. we re keeping our eye on the storm and keep you updated on that. stay safe, everyone. american warriors taking action launching a fresh round of air strikes to protect u.s. navy ships and merchant vessels in the red sea. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: good morning. i m bill hemmer. they canceled a golf tournament at pebble beach because of the storm. that never happens, right? you have the dramatic video showing the moment u.s. warships unleash a barrage of missiles at iranian-backed houthi targets in yemen getting ready to launch missiles. the white house warning they re not done yet. dana: republican lawmakers are slamming president biden for his slow response saying we need to turn the heat up on iran. here is lindsey graham. hit something they value. soleimani was killed with a single strike. there was nothing left but a smoldering car and ring finger. the tactics works. minor areas,
server room at trump s mar-a-lago, the same servers storing the security surveillance video from trump s resort. this as mr. trump s lawyers meet with justice department officials today. then, come on in, the water s fine. the 2024 race set to grow by three more candidates as governor nikki haley lands her sharpest blow yet on the republican front runners. plus military fighter jets going super sonic when a private plane doesn t respond while flying near the nation s capitol. investigators are trying to figure out what went so horribly wrong. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper, apologies for my voice. we start today with the law and justice lead and serious questions as to whether donald trump could face his first federal indictment ever. today, lawyers for the former president met with justice department officials here in washington for 90 minutes, a possible sign that special counsel jack smith s investigation into how trump handled classified documents and whet
after a 20-page limit was not enough. let s begin with what we learned. they clearly think they need double the pages. what will they tell us? this will be the justice department s first response of the legal merits whether a special master or a third-party individual should be appointed in this case. they previously said, given the judge s status report, that they will provide in court more detail today under seal, their forthcoming filing. but the privilege review team identified a limited set of materials that contained attorney/client privilege information. today, they are addressing the legal and the factual information that was raised in trump s request for the special master. they are asking for double the amount of space which is unusual. it must indicate they feel there is a lot in the record they want to address. and get to the issues of executive privilege, which trump is claiming he wants a special master to review this. trump s legal team will have until tomorr
what if the main goal of all of this was just to get that stuff out of mar-a-lago? well, i think that s a question that s on everybody s mind and certainly from where the justice department sits, this was these are these were top secret, classified documents, some of the nation s most, you know, privileged, sort of secrets about national security and military matters and the justice department s top priority in this case was just getting those back. and it s sort of an open question where the investigation heads now but we know that investigators are just beginning to sort of look at the stacks of documents that they have, they have more than 20 boxes to go through so this is going to be a process that takes quite some time. sand it would make sense that they were so worried because this is not really a secure facility. you have had arrests there of foreign nationals who were up to questionable activities. well, you know, one of the main questions that the justice d