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good evening, everyone. so glad you re with us. i m poppy harlow in tonight for erin burnett. outfront tonight, faceoff, the justice department taking aim at trump s argument for a special master. today, announcing fbi agents have already sorted through those documents and weeded out any material that may be covered by attorney/client privilege. trump s team has argued much of the seized material contained presidential communications and therefore in their view is protected. the former president s attorney today making it clear that trump is not leaving it up to doj to sort the documents. listen to this. now, they are trying to suggest with this pleading, judge, don t be surprised we have already taken care of all this. nothing to see here. well, we re not in a position where we can really have a lot of faith in that. we still need judicial intervention. we need a judge to monitor our access to these documents. also tonight, another court deadline looming. this ....
relevant? this has been a rapidly developing internal investigation. they had been doing a very rigorous probe, according to a letter sent from the secret service to the house select committee. telling them all of the way thaz were trying to abide by the house select committee s subpoena on july 19th, the secret service told investigators they planned to conduct forensic examinations of available devices that were used by the identified individuals, additional follow-up interviews with the identified users to determine if messages were stored in locations that were not already searched by the secret service. the reality here is all of those efforts have to stop because as cnn first reported yesterday, the dhs inspector general has told the secret service, this is now a criminal probe. stop investigating yourself. so there s a member of the january 6th committee, zoe lofgren, democrat of california. she says tony ornoto, robert engle, and the driver of trump s presid ....
states. with nearly 110 million people under alert. we re tracking the extreme temperatures and the dangerous conditions in this country and in europe. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, the leaders of the january 6th select committee are expressing concerns about the u.s. secret service s handling of cell phone data after the agency turned over only one of the text messages requested by the panel. let s go straight to our congressional correspondent, ryan nobles. he s up on capitol hill for us. ryan, tell us more about the statement released by the committee just a little while ago. wolf, there s no doubt the committee is very concerned about the physical data that may be lost as it relates to the secret service and what they knew on january 5th and january 6th. but now their concerns are expanding. they are also just concerned broadly about the way the agency handled t ....
investigate vote fraud essentially, and so he was one of the persons who was at that what people call an unhinged meeting in december of 2020, and he is obviously s ly somebody ws sympathetic to this idea that the former president was not being served by his lawyers, by people inside the white house who were telling him this is not legal, this is not how you do things. finally, breaking a few minutes ago, business insider issued a freedom of information act request to the pentagon and found out that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff was finding out about the attack on the capitol from tweets being sent by me and phil mattingly and manu raju, that that was how the chairman of the joint chiefs was finding out about the attack on the capitol. you tweet well, so that s good. but this is not how the joint chiefs of staff should be getting information, and it s clear from these records that were released to business insider that there s a lot of emails and message ....
forward. what do republicans have to say? the republicans offered a bit of a muted response. many not defending donald trump s actions, not yet criticizing what the justice department is doing, taking a wait and see approach. one of those republicans, lindsey graham of south carolina, who told me earlier today that he does not think that trump should be prosecuted. that s just ridiculous for me to comment over what some grand jury may be looking at. i don t see anything to prosecute him over. now, graham himself has come under scrutiny for phone calls he made to the georgia secretary of state in the aftermath of the november 2020 elections. the georgia prosecutor looking into donald trump s actions, has asked for graham to come before the grand jury and testify there. graham himself has said that he will not do that, he s trying to fight that subpoena. nevertheless, you re hearing some defense from republicans but most are saying they re going to take a wait and ....