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addicted to drugs even when she was pregnant. but will it sway the jurors? lets go "outfront." good evening, everyone. im kate bolduan in for erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, breaking news. cnn learning exclusively that the department of justice issued a new subpoena to the national archives for more documents related to its investigation into january 6th. according to sources, the request for additional material pertains to both before and after the insurrection. its a possible sig...

Before filing this lawsuit. and really what -- there are some valid points that the president could have made two weeks ago. he makes this argument that the search warrant was overly broad. he says that a third party here could review these things to make sure that the prosecutors at the fbi arent looking at material that is privileged. all of these things they could have made a point of asking a judge more than two weeks ago. now we know that the justice department has had two weeks to go throu...

Such transcripts are typically stored and why instead the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature and the person says this was done multiple times. out front now chief political analyst gloria borger, david gregory, and former director of the national intelligence robert lit and ann millgrim. ann, youre with me. nancy pelosi says it was a cover-up. it was a cover-up. does this look...

Point. robert, thank you very much for all of that. >> thanks for having me. >> coming up, president trump is set to meet with the ukrainian president tomorrow. so just who is volodymyr zelenskiy? that story after this. er this.

Obama administration, robert lit. mr. lit, what is your read as someone who had this job as general counsel for dni of what the law requires here? >> well, ive written a couple of pieces on the law fair block about this, and id have to respectfully disagree with congressman schiff who spoke earlier. i think its entirely appropriate for the director of national intelligence to get legal advice as to whether or not hes obligated to furnish this complaint to congress, and if he doesnt think it meet...

Anyway. kelly odonnell, thanks very much. the whole episode raised a ton of legal question. julian epstein is a former democratic chief counsel, went through impeachment wars of the late 90s. robert lit, former general counsel for the director of national intelligence. basically, theres nobody like bob litz. i was told book him again. julian, bob, yquestion for you both. bob, start with you. how does new reporting change the brewing legal battle here where it seems as if theres a line here, the ...

Is unfair. that is at the core and its documented and thats what happened. now, lewandowski said he didnt think the message was illegal and he did not deliver it, but we all knew that from the report. the reason he didnt deliver it and it was supposedly completely innocent and i want to play a part of the exchange for you, robert? i never delivered the message. >> you chickened out. >> i went on vacation. >> how long was your vacation, mr. lewandowski. >> it was lengthy. at least two weeks. >> b...

Discussions in hush terms about whether or not he hurt himself legally, whether he said anything today under oath that contradicts what he said before under oath. unfortunately, we dont have those transcripts the last time he office capitol hill so its hard to really know, but what he really cares about is the president of the united states. he would walk through fire for him and today he actually did that. i dont -- first of all, even if there is another witness that would be compelled to testi...

That this is his m.o. he doesnt care. it is an audience of one. we maybe overuse that term in the trump years, but corey lewandowski didnt need to be given the script because he could write the script and it flows through his veins how to talk in the trump language and how to speak trumpese and he went in there fully intending to do just that and not just pleasing the boss, but also about pleasing the boss base in the state of new hampshire where he is seriously considering a run for the senate....

Whistle-blower case could reach into the oval office about something vital to national security. so there is a deadline tonight and the dni is the deadline and they have to turn over a whistle-blower complaint and this to the house intelligence committee and chairman schiff told cnn about who the whistle-blower could be and i want to play it because its pretty important. >> someone above the dni. there arent that many above that category and they also suggested that there may be privilege issues...