about this. but the thing is, the committee did a good job. what we re seeing is we re seeing what s going to happen in the future. and i want people to understand the data does react how people are going to react to 2024. i think that s where we need to look. we know how they re going to do things. so, i think we need to look to the future to stop these type of activities going into the 2024 election. more now on all that would come with any decision to charge the former president with legal primes. elliott williams is with us tonight. when someone has been notified by federal prosecutors that they are the target of an investigation, how common is it for that notification to be followed by an indictment and when? extremely common, anderson, and relatively soon that have. it would be highly unlikely for any target to receive a letter and not get charged. what a target letter means is that the justice department has what s called substantial information or substantial evidence linki
smoke because of canadian wildfires. 75 million americans under air quality alert. when will the smoke clear? plus amanda gorman has her book pulled from a miami area grade school because one parent complained. turns out the parent never actually read the book. we begin with the growing legal jeopardy that former president trump faces in the federal documents investigation. a letter from the justice department to the former president s attorneys saying he is a target in a federal investigation. it s often but not always a strong sign that the person in question will be indicted. it is hard to overstate the unprecedented nature of this latest development. kaitlan collins joins us now with what we know. what is the latest on this letter and what is the trump team reaction? we haven t gotten a formal reaction from the trump legal team so far. we do know that justice department prosecutors did inform the former president s legal team that he is a target in that federal investigation
the parent s statement said it includes, quote, hate messages. here are a few of the lines she took issue with. we ve braved the belly of the beast. we ve learned that quiet isn t always peace. and the norms and notions of what just is isn t always justice. and yet the dawn is hours before, we do it, somehow we weathered and witness a nation that isn t broken but simply unfinished. and amanda gorman joins us now. it s so great just hearing you do that inaugural poem again. it s lovely. it s great to have you back. i m sorry it s under these circumstances. when you heard this, what was your initial reaction when you found out that your book was being restricted by somebody who had not actually even read it?
based on the evidence they have the crimes they re charging. if mark meadows did choose to answer questions when he testified before a grand jury, rather than simply take the fifth, what i mean, he was involved in so many different things. what questions do you think are the top priority for the justice department? oh, goodness. there s two big buckets of things that mark meadows could testify about. so, first, on january 6th, he would have been in the oval office with the former president as january 6th was playing out. so, he would have been privy to conversations with the president or overheard other conversations that the president had with other people. and he can testify to that. he can testify as to conversations he had with third parties. and remember that mark meadows is a former member of congress and would have been or potentially could have been a liaison or speaking to members of congress who were seeking to either overturn or disrupt the election. so, there s plenty
objected to that poem saying it contains, quote, hate messages. here is part of that poem, as read by the author. we have braved the belly of the beast. we have learned that quiet is not always peace. in the norms, and notions, of what just is, it isn t always justice. following the complaint, the school district reviewed the poem and decided to move it from the elementary section of the library, to the middle grade section. gorman says, she is guarded by this decision to restrict her poem. the white house condemned the move, and expressed support for gorman. an update on former u.s. president, jimmy carter, receiving hospice care for the last few months. his grandson, jason, is going into the news outlets, under spending their last days resting comfortably in their longtime home of planes, in georgia. it is the longest living u.s. president.