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3:00 p.m. eastern and we expect the former president to plead not guilty either today or in a separate formal arraignment. well find out. much of the republican party has been rallying behind trump. >> they are trying to utilize the d.o.j. as an influence operation within the campaigns within elections. >> america is seeing a double standard. perhaps president trump should have gone after hillary clinton. he didnt. should joe biden be allowed to aggressively go after the former preside...

fires, drought , and deaths. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." we begin with missing evidence in the january 6th investigation. the u.s. secret service failing to find text messages sought by the select committee. and thats fuelling more questions about whether the texts were inappropriately deleted. heres jessica schneider. >> tonight, key secret service text messages from the day before and the day o...

following the headlines. natasha, first to you. this is a change from the white house. the white house is pushing back very hard on what it says is inf en inflammatory behavior by china. >> they said please dont up the ante here. now theyre making public the fact that they have in fact summoned the chinese ambassador to the u.s. to the white house to essentially give him a dressing down about chinas provocations against taiwan in recent days. they had said numerous times that they expe...

growing cancer on our nation. right wing extremists now targeting the lbgtq community, and not just in idaho where 31 of them were unpacked from a u-haul and arrested, and the first polls are close right now in a south carolina primary as trump seeks revenge against two incumbent republicans. steve kornacki will join us from the big board. and first one of the big misconceptions from the trump presidency, that there were no adults in the room. thats not true. there were plenty of adu...

jail. that is, unless this man can save them thats attorney david shown who will speak to live in just a moment. look, its been what, two years now since bannon was convicted of contempt of congress for defining a subpoena from the january 6 committee. remember that his excuse back then, his lawyer at the time, robert costello, remember him from the hush money trial. one witness is calling the defense. while the time he said i didnt have to comply because he thought trump would assert ...

Listen the cases even before the cavoli and in the liquor vole case in 1961 case that nicholas says he was following the defendant was permitted to testify as to his reasons at the governments behest. this department of justice he has bannon was barred from testifying. costello was barred from testifying about what happened and what their reasons were. and the jury was told they may not consider the reasons remember, castello got the subpoena, not bannon costello as the experienced lawyer told b...

About their potential criminal exposure here? >> yes, pretty clearly. the trigger is quite obviously the subpoenas of cipollone and philbin because the law is clear, doj, if they testify, and they will, although it may be delayed, they can provide, they have to provide all kinds of confidential communications with trump, the privilege doesnt exist or it yields. and that means all the things that cipollone declined to talk about, and before january 6th committee, theyre going to say, and thats go...

Havent waived such a claimed relationship, the privilege doesnt attach if youre engaged in crime and fraud, and we laid out all of the crimes that we saw at that point that donald trump had been engaged in, and judge carter accepted that analysis and repeated those crimes, and he said he thought it was likely that donald trump had committed federal criminal offenses so weve already committed ourselves to that proposition, but i think the ambiguity is theres not some kind of statutory formal stru...

Now its a matter of not getting the information for the first time but now can you confirm what we already know, and it will be very very curious to see whether these people will follow the steve bannon and mark meadows route and try to fight it knowing privilege doesnt exist anymore or simply say, listen, i know you already have information, what do you now want to know? >> right. youve got the corroboration, seemingly, especially with these documents now. now you still need the added cooperati...

To "the new york times," the meeting was to discuss media strategy, not to overturn the election. the position jim jordans spokesperson has take own behalf of jim jordan is he wasnt involved in a coup. why wouldnt he call liz or adam or chairman thompson and ask to go explain that, david jolly? >> well, youre exactly right. to daniels point, there are privileges that exist with members of congress, much like the president of the united states is trying to exert executive privilege wrongly or not...