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buddies and allies to overturn the 2020 election. as we reported on this program at this hour yesterday, mark short, hes of course the former chief of staff to former vice president mike pence, testified before a d.c. grand jury last week. now according to new multiple reports, we also know that a second senior pence aide also testified. that would be greg jacob, pences legal counsel. both men, of course, had a front row seat to the extraordinary pressure campaign on mike pence by trum...

not a fishing expedition. it is up to them to be able to share with the american public that logic behind what they did, the fact that they had, what caused them. releasing the affidavit would be important. >> we also have new information on a personal message donald trump reportedly sent to merrick garland. back to the fbi top secret documents from his home. were gonna talk about this in a moment with january six committees members. the this hour, the last stand for another january 6t...

violence. lets go straight to more, tracking so much of what has done said on line. death threats have been out there, some general like social media posts urging people to kill all feds. but there have also been very specific threats, in particular aimed at the attorney general, merrick garland, and the florida judge who signed and then unsealed that search warrant. how concerned are federal officials about -- about this going from online threats to actual violence? >> reporter: yeah....

your show, alex jones on the stand today, when he found out, he was like, do you know how we got your text messages? and he was, like what? >> man -- >> that was some you know what. >> if this script scripted, i would have been like, thats not gonna happen. but then you look back to the lawyers who were sort of like chewing on a thumb nail at that moment. i want to know what that conversation was like after, but not because im sympathetic in some way to somebody who would torture those...

that had -- couldnt even get an abortion after being raped. and then went to indiana, brought to indiana, and got her health care there, and then the doctor that performed the procedure got in trouble, or at least didnt really get in trouble, didnt do one thing wrong, but the attorney general starts looking into her. when you hear stories like that, voters here it, regular people hear it. and i think thats what was resonating with them. they want to be able to make their own decisions ...

its an issue that had never really been seriously considered and decided one way or the other before the justice department was confronted with it urgently during the nixon administration. but thanks to this, again, sort of odd series of things happening all at once in the early 70s, the vice president, spiro agnew, maybe going to prison, the president, richard nixon, making being removed from office against his will by impeachment. thanks to those things coming together all at once in...

attorney for palm 3w5beach coun. where is this investigation potentially headed? >> good morning, erica. i think this provides further evidence that the department of justice is investigating donald trump. the doj clearly wants to learn what trump said and did on and about january 6. remember, they already interviewed marc short and greg jacob and now they want the two pats. last week we had reports that do skrchlt was trying to block the claims of executive privilege the reason why is...

information. >> not where you want that information. good morning, and welcome to "way too early." on this tuesday, august 23rd. lets start with the news. we begin with that reporting on what sparked the fbi search for classified materials at mar-a-lago two weeks ago. sources tell "the new york times" the government has recovered more than 300 documents marked as classified from donald trump so far. those documents returned in january included more than 150 classified documents. accord...

how washington is working on a plan b to the agreement between russia and ukraine, we will take you live visit to ukraine, london, and nairobi. the fbi raises a red flag over chinese telecommunications equipment on u.s. shores. cnn has an exclusive report. >> we begin with the scorching temperatures across the northern hemisphere as heat waves blanket china, europe and the u.s. in california, a wildfire raging has burned through more than 15,000 acres, hundreds of firefighters are wo...

federal offenses, obviously the state did not and that explains how determination in this case. >> were also on veterdict watc in texas. jurors are deliberating how much alex jones should pay the 6-year-old sandy hook victim for pushing his lies after the massacre of 20 first graders and six adults did not happen. the judge in the case denied jones request for a mistrial after it was revealed that his lawyer mistakenly sent two years of jones cell phone records and text messages to the...