Social media. Hello, well come everyone, sandra smith in new york. We have made it to wednesday, rich. Rich we have indeed, im rich in for john roberts. According to documents, white house officials asked facebook if it could provide special access to tools that would target users hesitant to take vaccines and spreading misinformation. Sandra also show Biden Administration officials berated facebook employees for not sharing enough data and alluded to the site being more difficult to deal with than other social media platforms. Rich Hillary Vaughn is live on capitol hill. Hillary, did the white house try to have more control on covid content on facebook than it originally claimed. Thats the big take away from the documents that we obtained. Really publicly the white house was claiming they were just trying to help facebook combat misinformation on their platform. Behind closed doors, it is clear that white house officials were trying to have much more influence on the platform and get
more inside as to what led to the approval for that search warrant and the what the underlying basis for this criminal investigation is. abby, we ve just hit noon. we re expecting more activity on the court s docket very shortly. we ll keep checking it and get back to you as soon as something is filed. jessica, stand by. we ll get back with you as soon as you have that document. joining me around the table is elliott williams and cnn legal and national security analyst carrie cordero. while everybody is hitting refresh right now, we have a moment where the judge in this case has said, government, i agree with your decision to redact certain elements of it, but yet he still sees fit to release this document. elliot, what sddoes that tell y? it s important to take a step back and what the law governing all of this is. in criminal proceedings, documents are presumed proceedings are presumed to be open, right? that s put in the constitution. things should be open. we have a
Hello, everyone. Im kate baldwin, with john berman in new york. Sara sidner is in jerusalem. House republicans are headed back Behind Closed Doors. Again, trying to fix their mess and come together after no House Speaker for three weeks. Were on day 21 without a speaker of the house. Theres eight republicans left or still vying for the job. There really is no clear path at this moment for any of them. What is clear, is that republican lawmakers, some of them, are exhausted by the chaos and getting an earful from constituents back home. I think people are so discouraged the last few weeks, they want to come together. We have to act like mature adults and come to a conclusion. I think with can. I think half of them can get their agent together. We need to get it done. New developments out of israel. A top u. S. Marine general is now on the ground advising the idf. You see james glen right there. They had troops waiting to cross the border at a moments notice. They might be able to delay
alleged mishandling of classified documents. rich. rich: busy day in the neighbor hoard. what are we hearing about the president s son and what he s going through with this latest plea deal? well, we are getting a look, actually, at the plea deal itself, rich, and it certainly could bode worse for the first family s legal woes, particularly hunter biden, specifically in it i can show one quote from exhibit 1 in the plea deal says this, during calendar year 2017 biden, meaning hunter, earned substantial income including just under 1 million from a company he formed with the ceo of a chinese business conglomerate, 660,000, and 64,000, 500,000 in director fees from a ukrainian energy company, 70,000 relating to romanian business and 48,000 from the
by the former president and his allies is that this is all political, that he is being targeted. yet, the facts and the timeline show that they were given a lot of time, that they were given a lot of communication, and the documents were not returned. pam, stand by for us. cnn s kaitlin collins is back with us now. kaitlin, there is an interesting and notable letter at the end of this document. what is in this letter? yeah. for people who are reading at home, it s in exhibit 1. it s a letter from trump s attorney, evan corcoran, who is still representing him right u to jay bratt. jay bratt is the lead justice department official on this case. he was there, presenting the day of this search. he was the one who actually contacted trump s attorney and asked them announced that they were there, asked them to turn the cameras off and asked which attorneys were there on the ground to greet them. so on may 25th, jay bratt gets a letter from evan corcoran. that is about a week before jay