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hello again, everyone, thank you so much for joining me. im fredericka whitfield. this just in to cnn, sources confirm a lawyer for former president trump signed a letter in june asserting there was no more classified information stored at his mar-a-lago resort in florida. but when the fbi executed a search warrant on monday, agents recovered 11 sets of classified documents with at least one marked as top secret/sci which is one of the highest levels of classifications. the newly unsea...

but first, to highly -- this afternoons highly anticipated fifth public hearing of the january 6 committee. well hear testimony from three high ranking justice department officials who led the department in the final days of the trump administration including the former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen. he will make clear the doj saw no evidence of widespread fraud sufficient to overturn the election. which unindicated that. and well detail how he and others resisted trumps pressu...

two months after the attack in which he defended the capitol rioters. and video of then vice president mike pence reacting in realtime to congressional calls for him to invoke the 25th amendment to remove donald trump from office just days after the insurrection. also featured interviews with ivanka trump and jared kushner including the first daughter claiming that her fathers goal was to have every vote counted, even as he was trying to do the exact opposite, trying to overturn the e ...

on what came of this meeting and whether the president did all he said he would do. jacqui heinrich in jeddah with more. jacqui? >> hi, neil. this controversial fist bump has drawn condemnation from across the political spectrum, across the media, "the washington post" publishers condemning it and saying it gave mbs basically the approval that he had so desperately been seeking from bidens visit. the president holding that press conference and affirming that he did bring up jamal khais...

today. >> you wonder if these people were not in the positions they were at the time, what would have heaped to democracy, wolf? these top-former doj officials described how they were essentially the guardians of democracy. relentlessly pressured by the former president of the united states, donald trump, to use the power of doj to overturn the election results even after doj had investigated the fraud and found there was no widespread fraud. he here is a clip of the remarkable exchang...

but american executives argue that biden should look stateside for solutions to gas prices. a controversial greeting with the saudis featuring fist bumps by biden at his senior administration officials in a contentious meeting with the crown prince. we start there tonight. jacqui heinrich is traveling with the president enjoins us from saudi arabia. hello, jackie. >> good evening to you, rich. president biden didnt directly respond to criticism. his fist bump the cia blames for a grisl...

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rushdie, the target of death threats for decades, airlifted to the hospital. news coming in on his condition tonight and what played out in front of those in horror in the audience. also breaking at this hour a major victory for president biden just moments ago. house democrats tonight passing the $740 billion bill. the biggest investment in fighting climate in u.s. history. lowering health care and prescription drug costs. taxing corporations and lowering the deficit. mary bruce at...

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this month. until a neutral special master can be appointed. the attorneys assert the sets of documents taken from the residence were presumptively covered by executive privilege and the trump team wants a detailed list of the documents taken and the former president, wants them back. correspondent david spunt is at the justice department tonight with this late-breaking story. good evening, david. >> this is a significant filing. in the filing, the former president of the united states...