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justice. plus, joe bidens primetime punch. the president tonight will use a national address to warn republicans are actively working in his view to undermine american democracy. and sarah palin loses in her alaska comeback attempt. a democrat won the special house election. so did advocates of what is called rank choice vote. a first for us, though. a court showdown next hour over the fbis search of donald trumps mar-a-lago. the justice department says it did everything by the book an...

doj could not be sptrusted to v the documents. >> trumps attorney said the filter team at the fbi is using the review the seized papers has virtually unchecked discretion in addressing potential privilege disputes. the judge was appointed by former president trump and has already indicated that she is leaning toward a special master. now, that was before the explosive brief from the justice department. it laid out the months-long effort by federal investigators to get back the governme...

hard virtual learning was, math and reading scores plummeting to their lowest levels in decades. ♪ ♪ welcome to "the lead." im kaitlan collins in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and the florida courtroom showdown unfold thing afternoon over the classified documents found at trumps mar-a-lago home. the hearing ended a little over an hour ago, with no immediate decision from the judge on whether or not to appoint a special master in the case. a special master would...

in support of the request for a search warrant that gave the fbi legal license to enter mrara lag on. on one side of this dispute the doj strenuously opposing the release and on the other side donald trump and a media of organizations including nbc news urging that the affidavit be made public. there was little to no chance that the judge reinhart would approve the release of the affidavit and at the conclusion of todays hearing that judge reinhart was, in fact, open to releasing a red...

due to the coronavirus pandemic. republicans, remember things very differently. white house correspondent peter doocy joins us tonight from philadelphia with a preview of speech. >> good evening, bret. president biden is at joint base andrews air force 1 is about to take off for philadelphia where president biden launched his presidential campaign last cycle and where he plans to launch new attacks on republican lawmakers who he is going to claim want to tear up americas foundational d...

house counsel pat cipollone and his former deputy, patrick philbin. coming up on thursday, the federal magistrate judge who approved that search will hear arguments for and against unsealing the search warrant affidavit. cnns jessica schneider joins us now. so what do you know about the fbis interviews with pat cipollone and patrick philbin? >> reporter: yeah. anderson, we know that the most senior former trump officials to be interviewed in what we know is really this ongoing criminal...

congresswoman cheney is the last of the so-called impeachment ten, those are the ten house republicans who voted to impeach president trump after the insurrection. seven of them have either lost their primaries or chosen not to run for re-election. two of them won, and then theres cheney. you may remember congresswoman cheney was booted from her leadership post in the republican conference more than a year ago after trying to warn the country about the threat she believes donald trump ...

january six committee is going to make the case that she is at the beginning of the battle. and she is going to drop a blunt message, a warning, a message warning about the danger to america from this misinformation and. why remove what she told cnn earlier this month from the threat from the former president? here it is. >> if defending the constitution against the threat that he poses means losing a house seat, then thats a sacrifice im willing to make. i do not intend to lose. but, ...

all right, this is the big news tonight. cnn projects that vocal trump critic liz cheney has lost wyomings gop primary. well go straight to cnns jeff zeleny hes, in wyoming for us. also king at the magic wall. lets go to john first. john, liz cheney losing her primary tonight. what are the numbers? showing >> their showing, don, look at the numbers right here, not quite 2 to 1. but harriet hageman, the trump backed challenger to liz cheney is winning, and winning convincingly. many vot...

30 minutes ago, flanked by his attorney from new york, bob costello, and as he exited the vehicle, i was able to ask him a couple of questions, including if he lied to georgia lawmakers when he appeared before them three times in the wake of the 2020 election. listen to his answers. >> mr. giuliani, when you met with georgia lawmakers, did you lie to them? >> we will not talk about this until it is over. it is a grand jury and grand juries as i recall are secret. >> do you believe pres...