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and whether his client wants to see the former president indicted. mr trump has been seeking donations. as you know, from his supporters fundraising off his claims he was going to be arrested this past tuesday and in a new series of statements on the social network is calling the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg, quote, danger to our country and to quote animal he s also linked to an article with a photo of bragg next to a photo of himself with a baseball bat looking like he s ready to take a swing. brags office, meantime, sent a letter to house republicans who are seeking to investigate the investigators. the letter says. house republicans only got involved quote after donald trump created a false expectation that he would be arrested the next day, and his lawyers reportedly urged you to intervene. neither fact the letter continues is a legitimate basis for congressional inquiry. here s how speaker mccarthy s reply. impossible. i don t understand why he only just poli
political ones development as well on the federal side. lawyers for the former vice president were in court today behind closed doors, trying to block a grand jury subpoena for his testimony in the january 6th case, and in the classified documents case. tomorrow is the day the former prisons attorney , evan corcoran, is expected to give additional testimony and turned over documents after the d. c district appeals court. upheld. the judge is incredibly rare decision to set aside attorney client privilege under the crime fraud exception. now we have reporting tonight on all of the above cnn s kara scannell on them and hadn t case and kaylen poland s on the federal action caress canal starts us off. so any idea why things have slowed down with the grand jury in new york. this grand jury has been hearing evidence in this case since january. we ve seen a number of the witnesses close to this david pecker at the national enquirer. um michael cohen, who is trump s fixed or the man
decision very, very shortly in that discussion to authorize the strikes against these particular targets. is there anything you can tell us about the u. s contractor killed. i m afraid not. i mean, we re trying to give the family some time and in space here to grieve. they just got devastating news yesterday. we do know that he was an american citizen and a contractor working for us at that particular base. but again , poppy, i think you can understand where we re going to give them a little bit of privacy right now, just to follow to poppy s question there. what are the things that us can the us do anything to help keep the personnel and u s contractsafe tre? well, the actions that we took yesterday are part and parcel that effort, don, i mean we re going to work to protect our people and our facilities as best we can. it s a dangerous environment. you said it at the top were there to defeat isis to ensure the enduring defeat of isis. they are still a threat in syria. they a
hello and welcome to the cnn newsroom. boris sanchez, everyone boris great to be with you. i m jessica dean and we begin with breaking details another major legal blow to former president donald trump. on the day his attorney had to testify before a federal grand jury. in one case. we re learning. in a separate case, his former top administration aides have now been ordered to testify, and that includes his past white house chief of staff mark meadows. this specific investigation is the federal criminal. probe into donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election loss. cnn senior crime and justice reporter caitlin poland s is with us live standing outside of the department of justice on a rainy day. caitlin tell us so much about this development, the claim of executive privilege by the former president thrown out by this judge. right so this is another attempt where donald trump was coming into court secretly behind closed doors and trying to say that people around him sh