smoke because of canadian wildfires. 75 million americans under air quality alert. when will the smoke clear? plus amanda gorman has her book pulled from a miami area grade school because one parent complained. turns out the parent never actually read the book. we begin with the growing legal jeopardy that former president trump faces in the federal documents investigation. a letter from the justice department to the former president s attorneys saying he is a target in a federal investigation. it s often but not always a strong sign that the person in question will be indicted. it is hard to overstate the unprecedented nature of this latest development. kaitlan collins joins us now with what we know. what is the latest on this letter and what is the trump team reaction? we haven t gotten a formal reaction from the trump legal team so far. we do know that justice department prosecutors did inform the former president s legal team that he is a target in that federal inve
grand jury. sara murray has that. what have you learned? we have learned that steve bannon has been subpoenaed for documents and testimony. this came about a month ago. and bannon is someone who, you know, was riling up the gop base, spreading falsehoods about the 2020 election on his podcast. he predicted all hell would break loose a day before the january 6th attack on the capitol. you know, this is what prosecutors are focusing on with bannon is the january 6th investigation. you know, according to the book, peril, he was talking to trump in 2020 and urging trump to focus on january 6th, focus on the electoral college. it is an indication that even as the mar-a-lago documents probe may be winding down, there are still witnesses that the justice department, the jack smith team, wants to hear from or try to hear from on the january 6th investigation. so, is there any indication of whether bannon will cooperate or has? well, that s a great question. we ve reached out to him and
based on the evidence they have the crimes they re charging. if mark meadows did choose to answer questions when he testified before a grand jury, rather than simply take the fifth, what i mean, he was involved in so many different things. what questions do you think are the top priority for the justice department? oh, goodness. there s two big buckets of things that mark meadows could testify about. so, first, on january 6th, he would have been in the oval office with the former president as january 6th was playing out. so, he would have been privy to conversations with the president or overheard other conversations that the president had with other people. and he can testify to that. he can testify as to conversations he had with third parties. and remember that mark meadows is a former member of congress and would have been or potentially could have been a liaison or speaking to members of congress who were seeking to either overturn or disrupt the election. so, there s plenty
defying a subpoena from the select committee. he was also, in more ways than just boasting involved in the planning and promoting of january 6th. in their new book peril, bob woodward and robert costa recall a late december phone call he had with the former president. bannon told trump to focus on january 6th. that was the moment for a reckoning. people are going to go what the expletive is going on here, bannon believed. we are going to bury biden on january 6th. blank bury him. woodward and costa also report that the former president called bannon at the willard hotel in washington on january 5th. so you can see why members of the select committee, including republicans liz cheney and adam kinzinger want to know more. as for nearly every other republican on the rules committee today and throughout congress, it s a different story. congresswoman cheney closed her remarks today with a challenge to them which we think bears listening to in its fullness. i urge you to do what you kno
that um it doesn t doesn t seem to change. when you talk about the january 6th committee, i just wanted to ask you about steve bannon, specifically. because i know that you reported that bannon had urged trump to focus on january 6th. and you quote bannon as saying, quote, we re going to bury biden on january 6th. now, bannon we re going to bury him in the crib at the beginning of his presidency. it s one i mean, it s it s bury is a word that has a lot of power, particularly in the days before the violence of january 6th. it absolutely does. and then, i just want to be clear here. bannon has admitted that you and bob costa s reporting was correct. here he is. this illegitimate regime is starting to collapse. you know, there s a quote from me i guess in the book and they re all over about it that i was talking to the president in late january that we could kill the illegitimate biden regime in