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theyve uncovered new avenues of investigation, most recently those missing secret service text messages from january 6th. the d.a. inspector general is now launching a criminal investigation into what happened. as a former dhs official quote "almost nothing about this makes sense. at best the loss of these texts is evidence of astonishing incompetence. it is indicative of darker motivations." i want to bring in ali vitali, barbara mcquade is a professor at the university of michigan la...

investigations into january 6th and based on the evidence we saw last night, he might not be the last given that blockbuster hearing from the january 6th select committee in prime time last night. the committee put in place critical building blocks in its case against donald trump having criminal exposure as the leader of the plot against the government he led. in a hearing focused on what was unfolding inside the west wing of the white house on january 6th and in the days immediately ...

federal court. the bottom line is, he is toast! there is nothing he can do -- [laughs] >> i was gonna say screwed. there is a consistency problem here. you can say many times, in public, on television, there was all kinds of things in those boxes. i dont know what was in those boxes. so its very hard to get from -- at and have any idea what was in the boxes, to, i know they planted things. do you agree with that? >> i completely agree. judge dearie is a no nonsense judge. hes not going...

>> if youre interested in reading the report by jimmy and his class, there is the link at the bottom of your screen. bit.l-y/yale.20year war. be sure to tune in saturday, 8:00 p.m. eastern for the one hour special. the news continues. lets hand it over to sara sidner and "cnn tonight." the message behind the special master donald trump asked for in his battle over classified documents is basically this, put up or shut up. and you have a deadline to do so. and that deadline is next fr...

russia. we will look at how the vote could have a real impact on the war. canadians now are preparing for what could be the strongest storm ever to hit the eastern coast of nova scotia. we are tracking hurricane fiona at the cnn weather center. plus. >> walking out on court. having the chance to play with the likes of raf or novak in the past has been an amazing experience for me. >> tennis great roger federer gets ready to say good-bye to the sport. we have a look at the final match t...

hes going to say, as these guys said, prove it. this is a very dangerous scheme for them to play. as nick said, this is just another criminal charge waiting on other criminal charges being investigated. >> how do they play it, than? >> i think they declare victory in some way and get out of this thing, because this is not going to end well for them. this is going to end with perjury charges. its going to end with a hearing being called that they are not prepared for. and if they tried ...

hello and welcome. friday, september 23rd. 9 a.m. here in london. 11 a.m. in ukraine. voting begins today in the four occupied regions on whether to become a part of the russian federation. the areas make up about 50% of ukraines territory. if they join russia many believe that will provide vladimir putin the pretexts to claim russian territory is under attack and escalate the war. its prompting people to flee the country in all directions. a long line of cars backed up at russias bord...

oath keepers. >> so january 6th committee members have made claims that they can link members of trumps inner circle to the oath keepers. and new this morning the justice department firing back at steve bannons sudden about face that hes willing to testify before the january 6th committee just days before his contempt trial begins. trump is waiving executive privilege as he said -- as bannon has said and waiving should certainly be used loosely here, perhaps in quotation marks so tha...

quote, irrelevant to the contempt of congress case against him. that is set to begin next week. the doj wrote, quote, the defendants sudden wish to testify is not a genuine effort to meet obl gigations, but a last-ditch attempt to avoid accountability. >> bannons reversal comes after he received a letter from former trump that waives executive privilege, but new court documents show that an attorney for former president trump actually spoke to the fbi weeks ago and contradicted bannons...

played in trying to overturn the election. >> just to give a historical precedence to the group and how they have radicalized was the propaganda for the keepers. >> lets begin with the latest on steve bannon. saying he is now willing to testify before the january 6 committee jessica schneider is outside the courthouse where the hearing is taking place this morning. the point you made last hour was it was supposed to take place nine months ago so this is the 11th hour appeal. how do we ...