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the magic wall. lets go out front. good evening. im erin burnett. out front tonight, trumps lawyers talking. cnn confirming that the fbi interviewed two of trumps former lawyers. the former white house counsel pat cipollone and deputy patrick philbin. they are the two most senior trump officials to be interviewed in the criminal investigation of trumps handling of classified information. this is a significant development. obviously cipollone and philbin know a lot. they were trumps poi...

worlds away from the fighting and the dying. vladimir putin would prefer that we pay less attention to it all tonight. instead, because of just how important it is, that is where we begin the broadcast, reminding you again, showing you again the moments of savage brutality and the moments of hope over the past six months. >> translator: we are all here. our military are here. citizens and society are here. we are all here defending our independence, our state, and it will remain so. gl...

were live with the latest. a deadly strike on a train station. we will have a report on the escalation and fighting as ukraine marks its independence day. we will have more on those stories in just a moment. we begin this hour with more evidence of just how long the national archives pleaded with donald trumps legal team to get documents from the former president. about 100 days after he left office, the archives realized documents were missing and asked for them to be returned. ev...

and criminal investigation, the filing argsing the disclosure would likely chill future cooperation by witnesses whose tennessee assistance may be sought as this investigation progresses as well as in other high profile investigations. in other words, this may not just be about retrooefg docu documents. separately, the department of justice unsealed charges against a pennsylvania man accused of threatening to kill fbi agents after the search. and the former president speaking to fox pr...

investigation. primary elections will soon be held in alaska and wyoming. why a republican trump critic, liz cheney, faces a difficult fight to hold onto her house he. and china has reportedly sanctioned officials in taiwan, claiming, the recent visit by u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi, is a sign of pro- independence activities. live from cnn center, this is " cnn newsroom," with rosemary chance. >> good to have you with us. we begin this hour with a group of growing illegal trou...

justice department says its trying to protect in its investigation of documents taken from donald trumps home at mar-a-lago. in a way, these are the most expansive comments yet from the justice department and they come in a court filing opposing the release of the affidavit that lays out the case for searching mar-a-lago. now, senators on both members of the intelligence committee and media companies including cnn are pushing to see that information. new reporting this morning from t...

document comes out, it will change everything that we know about the search of mar-a-lago. now, there are three relevant documents here, the first two, the search warrant and the property received, those are out in the public. weve seen those. just for the sake of comparison, the search warrant that is three pages. its mostly a form you fill out it tells us where the fbi wanted to search and the criminal laws the doj is looking at. it the property seized. thats also three pages. most o...

>> a fiction you called it. >> yeah. look. its -- if he has declassified hundreds, maybe thousands of documents that he took to the residence because he worked very hard on this at night as we all know, over four years, the media should be filing freedom of information act requests for all documents declassified by donald trump pursuant to this standing order. id love to see what gets produced. >> and we know from seeing the receipt of items taken from mar-a-lago that there was a box l...

at this stage. >> reporter: right. well, it would be rare to make a search warrant affidavit public, but we are at a point where there is a push for transparency, not just on capitol hill, but the media, including cnn. in court the justice department made a set of arguments and really a couple little details about this investigation that theyre saying should keep this affidavit secret, confidential, only for their eyes and for the judges eyes. in their filing yesterday, they wrote if d...

home. "the wall street journal" reports the attorney general merrick garland deliberated for weeks over whether to approve that fbi search. separately, sources tell cnn that trump white house lawyer eric herschmann has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating the insurrection. and in a separate investigation, georgia prosecutors have told rudy giuliani he is a target of a criminal probe into election interference. and in yet another investigation, long time trump organizat...