espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. no one has been charged with a crime that we know of as of now. this just in, the democratic chairs of the intelligence committee and the oversight committee and the house have written a letter to the director of national intelligence saying they want a damage assessment, and briefing regarding these documents recovered from mar-a-lago, and of course trump and his allies are of course spending and peddling wild conspiracy theories about the fbi search at mar-a-lago. the theories range from ridiculous and laughable to down right dangerous. cnn s daniel dale joins me now to talk about this. trump is saying all the fbi and the department of justice has to do is ask for these documents back, and there would have been no problem at all. all they had to do was ask, and that post on his truth site. does that align with what we know? it does not at all align with what we know, jim. we know there was
on ballots that had been mailed in this the presidential election. he said basically there were a bunch of ballots at that post office that had been sent in too late. they had been mailed in after election day was over, but his supervisor, he said, he heard talking about plans to doctor those ballots, to change the date, change i guess the postmarks on all of those ballots to make it look like they were sent in time, even though they weren t. da da da! very dramatic claim that would be a very illegal thing to do, right? so what did this letter carrier do with this information after he says he overheard this very damning, very concerning conversation that involved his supervisor? well, he went the a right wing activist group, and they drew up an affidavit, a statement that he then signed swearing that what i just described is what he witnessed. signed his name to the bottom of it, and then this right wing activist group publicly released this sworn affidavit as evidence of mas
in the presidential election. he said basically there were a bunch of ballots at that post office that had been sent in too late. they had been mailed in after election day was over, but his supervisor, he said, he heard talking about plans to doctor those ballots, to change the date, change i guess the postmarks on all of those ballots to make it look like they were sent in time, even though they weren t. da da da! very dramatic claim that would be a very illegal thing to do, right? so what did this letter carrier do with this information after he says he overheard this very damning, very concerning conversation that involved his supervisor? well, he went the a right wing activist group, and they drew up an affidavit, a statement that he then signed swearing that what i just described is what he witnessed. signed his name to the bottom of it, and then this right wing activist group publicly released this sworn affidavit as evidence of massive voter fraud. this is like the sw
they had been mailed in after election day was over, but his supervisor, he said, he heard talking about plans to doctor those ballots, to change the date, change, i guess, the postmarks on all of those ballots to make it look like they were sent in, in time, even though they weren t. dun, dun, da! that is a dramatic claim. that would be an illegal thing to do, right? so, what did this letter carrier do with this information after he says he overheard this very damning, very concerning conversation that involved his supervisor? well, he went to a right-wing activist group, and they drew up an affidavit, a statement that he then signed, swearing that what i just described is what he witnessed, signed his name to the bottom of it, and then this right-wing activist group publicly released this sworn affidavit as evidence of massive voter fraud. this is, like, the sworn affidavit thing, this is one of the weird things you kept hearing about from trump supporters and the trump cam
European going on in equities today. Pray much unchanged on the stoxx index, ever so slightly higher, hitting a record high in this session. Sterling, bucking the trend a little bit as other currencies are treading water. The euro hit the 1. 20 handle in this session. 1. 999, and the 10 year yield, down one basis point ahead of the fed decision and Janet Yellens press conference. Lets get the bloomberg first word news. 7. 2 magnitude earthquake has struck mexican city. It is the countrys second major quake this month and came on the anniversary of the earthquake in 1985. This temporarily closed the airports and halted trading on the mexican stock exchange. It plans to open tomorrow. Hurricane maria has strengthened to a category five storm again with top winds reaching, 175 Miles Per Hour, causing at least six deaths on the island of dominica. Warnednt trump has north korea of military action. The arab nations are looking at ways to remove the regime. Trump is said to have told them th