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restored the news continues right here on cnn outfront. >> next, breaking news, the jury asking questions, sending notes to the judge. i watched them in the courtroom today. >> the men and women now deciding trumps fate, telling the judge they want to rehear testimony from two key witnesses, plus justice alito defiant tonight, refusing to recuse himself from cases guides january 6, blaming his wife again and again in a rare letter to congress ill talk to congressman jamie raskin he say...

right here on cnn outfront. >> next, breaking news, the jury asking questions, sending notes to the judge. i watched them in the courtroom today. >> the and in women now deciding trumps fate, telling the judge they want to re-hear testimony from two key witnesses, plus justice alito defiant. tonight refusing to recuse himself from cases guides january 6, blaming his wife again and again in a rare letter to congress, ill talk to congressman jamie raskin. it says he knows how force alito...

>> outfront. next breaking news, the jury letter to congress, ill talk to congressman jamie raskin, he says he knows how to force alito to recuse and fear of a terror attack in new york, police ramping up security tonight as isis case suggests, it may targeted stadium that holds up to 34,000 people. lets go out and good evening. >> im erin burnett outfront tonight. the breaking news, the jury sending out notes twice late today asking crucial questions as donald trumps fate tonight hang...

Now he has the duty step aside , if he doesnt, i think other steps need to be taken >> lets talk about the other steps, including possibly the action that the supreme court can take itself. is there any logical outcome? is there any self policing that might actually happen at the court? >> well, a chief justice roberts has taken -- that recusal is general -- that the justices could decide for himself or herself. if the justices could vote on the covid recluses, the might pick each other off in p...

Particular cases. i think theres something to that notion. but i think, you know, if you compare this for example to our recusal issue involving justin -- justice -- who was a hunting body of cheney, and george washington -- s and the question -- the question -- is it whether the social involvement was enough for -- it in which cheney was in a lawsuit in his official position, that is nothing compared to this. justice scalia felt the need to write an opinion explaining why he was it recusing him...

Miles to go in this investigation. anybody watching it, seeing all the leads that are uncovered, the additional witnesses that he is using are and hes using rick gates because obviously the agreement with manafort fell apart for his cooperation. but 60 days is in my view just the beginning. and the reason why its so important is it goes back directly to the lack of a specific commitment, ironclad and strong commitment that he would protect against any attempt to restrict subpoenas or witnesses, ...

Telling what the timeline is. >> exactly. and ive been saying for some time that robert mueller has miles to go in this investigation. anybody watching it, seeing all the leads that are uncovered, the additional witnesses that he is using are and hes using rick gates because obviously the agreement with manafort fell apart for his cooperation. but 60 days is in my view just the beginning of the amount of time thats necessary. and the reason why its so important is it goes back directly to the la...

California joins me now. schiff and his democratic colleagues sent letters requesting information on whitakers involvement with that companys advisory board. lets start there, congressman schiff. what are you asking for? what are your concerns about whitaker? >> well, our concerns are that at a time when he was a paid advisory board member, this company is alleged to have been engaged in criminal conduct, were talking about the chief law enforcement officer of the country, if he was aware of thi...

History that an attorney general was even remotely appointed in this way was back in 1866, when he held the position for six days. but whitaker is not out of the woods yet. house democrats are preparing to investigate whitakers role on the advisory board of a company accused of scamming millions from its customers. congressman adam schiff of california joins me now. schiff and his democratic colleagues sent letters requesting information on whitakers involvement with that companys advisory board...

And im just going to stay in charge of this. and so then, of course, it becomes an issue for people outside. and whether or not they want to pressure him to do it otherwise. but really, its going to be up to him whether or not he wants to listen to the ethics office. in the case of jeff sessions, he was part of the campaign. there was an obvious conflict there. and sessions has said it millions of times. he said, i had no choice. the president didnt really seem to buy that. but sessions really h...