Special counsel jack smith against donald trump. In an interview with cnn, maralago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trumps inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. With loyalty prized above everything. A world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. Now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butlers identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbcs request for comment. In his interview last night, butler says he helped trumps codefendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nations most Sensitive National security secrets. Watch. He followed me. He pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. You noticed that he had boxes. Oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. Thats what i remember. Did you have any idea at the time that there was potentially u. S.
all of the political fallout to come. also this hour, florida federal judge aileen cannon sets a file date for the president s documents case as mr. trump gives his most detailed answer yet since last week s indictment about his handling of america s secrets in response to tough questions from fox news anchor bret baier. why not just hand them over then? because i had the boxes. i wanted to go through the boxes and get all of my personal things out. i didn t want to hand it over yet, and i was very busy as you ve sort of seen. yeah, you tell the aide to move to other locations after telling your lawyers you had fully complied with the subpoena when you hadn t? but i had to take all of my thing out. these boxes were interspersed with all sorts of things. and john durham to the house intelligence committee on the 206-page report that s highly critical of the fbi s investigation into the russian interference in 2016, to the republican intelligence committee chairman,
i don t know what the label thought the first time they heard that song, but if i had been the label, i would have been, like, correct. we ll never be royals thanks so much for joining us. i m alex marquardt in today for fredricka whitfield. we begin with a murder investigation in dallas, texas, where police say that a texas woman was shot and killed by her boyfriend over an abortion. 26-year-old gwas shot in the hed the day after she returned from colorado where she went for an abortion. isabelle gonzalez joins me with more. there was an active warrant from a previous incident involving this couple. what more do you know? reporter: court documents detail a history of violence directed against gabriela gonzalez. she told police, according to an arrest warrant, that she had told police multiple times that she was beaten up by harold thompson. during the time of the shooting, there was an active family violence strangulation warrant against thompson that had to do with
An audit exit if this is put in charge of this years climate complement. And a look at whats happening in the front line town of soledar as russia and ukraine fight for control. Welcome to the programme. We start with the controversy in washington. The white house has confirmed that a second set of classified documents has been found in the garage of President Biden s home in delaware. Its thought the documents are linked to Barack Obamas time in the white house Whenjoe Biden was Vice President. And in the last half hour, us Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of Special Counsel to investigate joe biden s handling of the documents. This Appointment Underscores for the public the departments commitment to independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters and to Making Decisions guided only by the facts and the law. Heres what the us president told reporters a little earlier. As i said earlier this week, and by the way my corvette in a locked garage
don t. attorney general merrick garland facing the self righteous indignation of ted cruz and other republicans. new reporting tension between the fbi and justice department over the mar-a-lago raid. cpac is back, home of normal conservatives nothing more than a clown show. it does reflect the current state of the republican party. and from performative to alarming, republicans and ron desantis s florida are cracking down on lgbtq people and moving to cancel the entire democratic party. we begin tonight with a lingering question from the 2016 presidential election. what was going on inside the fbi? remember, just 11 days before the election, fbi director james comey announced that the agency was reopening its investigation into hillary clinton. effectively costing her the election. the motivation behind comey s move seemed to be coming from the fbi s new york field office, which, according to reuters, had a faction of investigators based in the office known to be host