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Welcome to a special edition of cnn tonight. and we begin with the art of the deal that never was. tonight the washington post reports that donald trump rejected efforts by his lawyers to cut a deal with the justice department to avoid his second arrest in just ten weeks. the post reports that one of his attorneys, floated the idea of quietly approaching the feds last fall to take the temperature down on the classified documents case and to try to find a way to avoid charging the former president, but that never materialized because trump listened to other advisers and pundits pushing him to take a much more aggressive approach. now, cnn reported last fall that trump had conservative activist tom fitten in his ear telling him that returning records to the archives was a mistake. and so now as a result of all of that, trump faces 37 criminal counts for allegedly keeping and hiding those documents and of course obstructing the investigation. ....
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Without reform by congress. and now, the justice department is accusing rite aid of knowingly filling unlawful prescriptions for controlled substances. they are talking about opioids. paula reid is going through the filing. what is the justice department accusing rite aid of doing? theyare accusing them of ignoring the opioid crisis in this country. they are saying they filled unlawful prescriptions for controlled substances specifically opioid, an unusually large quantities, and opioids like oxycodone, and fentanyl, and he pointed to a trinity of the dangerous cocktail of opioids and other drugs. and there were rite aid ....
Seditious conspiracy for the attack on the capitol. he is one of 11 people hit with those charges by the doj. the indictments come as the january 6th committee weighs taking a major step in their inquiry, whether to subpoena sitting members of congress. nbc s julie tsirkin is joining us from capitol hill. welcome on this saturday. so, with the doj taking oath keeper members to court and the committee weighing subpoenas, how are these battles playing out? reporter: alex, let s start with the big development coming from the justice department, who charged more than 700 people in connection with the capitol riot over the last year, but this week, bringing their most serious charge against the leader of the oath keepers, stewart rhodes, charged with seditious conspiracy. the justice department accusing him and at least ten others of trying to overthrow the government and more specifically trying to prevent congress from certifying the election and certifying president joe biden s victory ....
Spending was justified. the president also taking aim today at the justice department accusing once again the fbi of stalling the release of documents related to the alleged fisa surveillance and e-mails from hillary clinton s private server while she was secretary of state. joining me now are alexei mccammon, political reporter for axis and chuck rosenberg and former u.s. attorney and fbi officials and natasha bertrand staff writer for the atlantic. great to have all three of you with us. chuck, the president has made a series of tweets about the department of justice s missed deadline to turn over a slew of documents that the house wbr id= wbr11837 /> judiciary committee is requesting. trump tweeted this on saturday. lawyers of the house judiciary committee are angrily accusing the department of justice of missing the thursday deadline for turning over unredacted documents related to fisa abuse. fbi, comey, lynch, mccabe, /b> ....