i want wyoming to be protected and i don t feel that liz is doing that job. she stood up for what she believes in. this primary election is over, but now the real work begins. welcome, it is wednesday, august 17th, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington, 2:00 a.m. in wyoming where voters have spoken handing former u.s. president donald trump and his supporters perhaps their biggest primary victory yet. just a few months ahead of the midterm elections. trump s most forceful congressional critic liz cheney has lost her house seat. well i won t back down, no, i won t back down cheney conceded to her trump-backed rifle harriet hageman, but issued a rallying call to all americans who care about protecting democracy. cheney is vowing to do everything she can to keep the former u.s. president out of the white house. and steer the republican party away from his lies and influence. jeff zelleeny was there and has that report. reporter: congresswoman liz chen
peace out. welcome to the beat. we have a lot going today including giuliani now going under oath after he was targeted for indictment. this was before the georgia grand jury. here was of the scene on a momentous day one many would have not expected years ago given how he was once viewed in the legal community as the once prosecutor had the tables turned arrived in court. the grand jury is a secret. do you believe trump is the target of the investigation? i m not going to comment on the grand jury investigation until i know more about it. what are you expecting to talk about here today? they ask the questions. will you be cooperative? mr. goul making his way inside. you ll know one thing. if you watch the news, and if you re hearing my voice i bet you do, you may recall over all those choppy water, those months of the election drama that giuliani would talk about all kinds of things. out of pocket, dpens his own client s interest. what you just saw was a d
it s now over a week after fbi agents descended on former president trump s florida home. new details are now emerging about the criminal investigation that prompted the search. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is following all of these developments, including the high level witnesses who have now been questioned. reporter: tonight, new revelations that former president trump s two top white house lawyers interviewed with the fbi about classified documents at mar-a-lago. white house council pat cipollone and his deputy pat philbin were trump s designated representatives to the national archives when trump left office. they could have insight about what was taken to mar-a-lago and why 11 sets of classified documents remained there until last monday, when fbi agents searched trump s palm beach home. the new details come as the court fight for more information about the search is looming. a federal judge announcing he ll hold a hearing thursday on whether to publicl
over law enforcement today. mark claxton is here for a special conversation about just comply. that s coming up. before the hour is out, we will hear from the icon fran leibowitz on politics, democracy, and why she says mitch mcconnell is one of the worst things to ever happen to american government. fran doesn t pull her punches, and we will hear from her later tonight. so, i got to tell you, as far as i can see, there is something to get excited about here, and we ll goat all that, but the top story are the new details about trump s national security scandal. and this is one of those stories that actually, i got to tell you, felt slow for a long time women knew there was this clash with the archives. and then we knew the government was viewing trump as holding some important materials that were not his. that s also commonly known as stealing. but that was playing out for a while. it was not until the unprecedented search that blew this up in the public realm and made clear
failed the country. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. we now know why fbi agents searched former u.s. president donald trump s mar-a-lago home and we re learning details about some of the items they took. according to a warrant unsealed friday, agents were looking for evidence of possible crimes including potential violations of the espionage act related to the gathering, loss or destruction of u.s. defense information. property receipts also unsealed on friday reveals that fbi agents recovered 11 sets of classified documents including several marked top secret. they also seized several photo binders, information about the president of france and a document about pardoning roger stone, a staunch trump ally convicted of lying to congress. we explain what the unsealed documents tell us about the ongoing investigation. reporter: on friday a federal court in florida released seven pages of documents that represent that unprecedented search and seizure that took