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Just in to cnn, the justice department says the former president trump cannot claim total presidential immunity in civil cases related to january 6th. >> the doj is urge ing an appea court to reject the claims and let some lawsuits move trd. evan perez is joining us with this report ing. tell us about this doj brief. >> this is a big deal. the justice department is saying the former president is not entitled to complete an absolute immunity with the lawsuits. these are lawsuits filed by democrat...

Washington. glad to have you. here right now in south carolina, there are major developments in alex murdaughs double murder trial. the prosecution now respond ing after the defense presented its closing arguments yesterday. defense attorney jim griffin made an emotional plea when wrapping up his presentation. >> there are two words that justice demands this thises case and those two words are not guilty. the oath you have taken in this case it requires a verdict not dwlt. on behalf of alex, of ...

Special counsel investigation, ten days ago the fbi conducted its own search of the wilmington house. it lasted 13 hours and did uncover additional classified materials. so it was very much expected that the fbi would also go back to the rehoboth home and the big question today will be will they find additional materials. we know from sources that investigators are still going through everything that they retrieved from the wilmington home. as of right now, it appears that does dozens of documen...

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Breaking news, the white house slamming china for helping russia push lies about its invasion of ukraine. the press secretary tweeting we took note of russias false claims about alleged u.s. biological weapons labs and chemical weapons in ukraine. we have seen chinese officials echo these conspiracy theories. it comes as china faces growing scrutiny for pushing anything the russians have alleged. they even refused to publicly call the invasion an invasion. theres one chinese reporter whose unpre...

Kristen: thank you for joining us today on this interactive show -- world tonight, several breaking he headleans as we come on the air. the major outage for hours affecting millions of facebook, instagram and whatsapp. what the kcompany is saying tonight. what were learning at this hour. and it comes after the facebook whistleblower revealed herself on "60 minutes," revealing thousands of pages of internal documents. what she says facebook knowingly does involving its users. facebook respondin...

>> reporter: and david, tonight, a promising sign. for the first time since mid-august, the report report ing under 200,000 covid cases in children. 173,000 last week. still considered high, but the numbers seem to be trending in the right direction. david? >> erielle reshef, thank you. now to the deadly shootout onboard and amtrak drain in arizona. a d.e.a. officer killed, two others wounded. heres abcs kayna whitworth. >> reporter: tonight, a d.e.a. officer is dead and two other members of l...

If it was, however, an effort to stall and push back and minimize what the fbi was telling the white house, well, thats -- im not using the word criminal in the criminal-legal sense, but thats criminal in terms of the type of behavior that would be protected. >> we know from plenty of reporting thats been done that rob porter was relaying his version of events to both chief of staff kelly and white house counsel don mcgahn. first and foremost to white house counsel mcgahn, so i do suspect it was...

Reporting on this as well and was talk to go rob at the time as to expanding his possibilities, maybe becoming deputy chief of staff, maybe taking on some other role. this is why he was brought in. i guess my question is, is his personal involvement clouding his judgment or ability to hit the brakes, take a breath, call everybody in, find out if a timeline can withstand scrutiny, know that they can turn a page when this has dominated headlines for a week. >> presidents do that as a last resort a...

Holder said, i am not surprised, i am disappointed. and i am concerned with how this sets a standard for what is or isnt acceptable as society navigates how to handle domestic abuse moving forward. they could have handled all of this differently. i think this will be the latest example that falls under that bucket. >> its a difficult one in the sense that rob porter worked for the white house. the president has publicly defended him. but should someone at the white house reach out to these women...