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the historic heat wave and an obama biden reunion, why the former president and first lady are returning to the white house this afternoon. we begin with new developments in the investigations into donald trump and his allies. people familiar with the matter tell the washington post the documents seized by the fbi during a search of trump s mar-a-lago estate last month included information about a foreign government s nuclear capabilities. nbc news has not independently confirmed this reporting. the justice department declined to comment. as the post wrote in its piece, quote, some of the seized documents detail top secret u.s. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. and that quote, documents about such highly classified operations require special clearances on a need to know basis, not just top secret clearance but a trump spokesperson tweeted the washington post continues to serve as the propaga ....
An interest to really state how compelling this case is and how serious it is. you are correct that generally the fbi and the justice department in general keeps its investigations very close to the vest but we ve seen not just in news reports but also in the filings that we ve seen in this case give much more information than we re used to and i think it s just because the stakes are as high as kristen was laying out. this is involving very, very sensitive documents, things that are a matter of national security and can put individuals and national security in jeopardy. that is really important here. i think that s one thing the justice department realizes in balancing that interest. yeah, jackie, how could these leaks potentially impact the investigation? i m not sure it would really impact the investigation. that is a talking point we have ....
Circumstances, what it was supposed to accomplish, has always remained murky. katie benner reporting that pak s resignation was preceded with a contentious meeting in the oval office, with jeffrey rosen and jeff clark, a trump guy who was trying to cast doubt on the election results along with trump, they fought it out. they argued over which should lead the justice department, whether rosen should stay the attorney general, or whether trump should replace him with this jeff clark guy. whether the justice department should look into claim ans that the election was stolen. going into that meeting, several justice department officials were so worried that trump would take rosen out and put clark in ....
Capital to deny a quorum in the house. the texas house democrats are facing arrest warrants sworn out for them last night. we ll be checking in with one of them tonight. but this filibuster is under way in austin. it looks like it may go at least overnight. tonight, as the department of homeland security is warning about the renewed threat of political violence from trump supporters, who believe his claims that there was fraud in the election, and that he will be re-instated later this month. tonight, we re getting the first reporting on what happened behind closed doors today in washington, when a former u.s. attorney, b.j. pak, testified in a closed door session about how trump used the justice department to try to invalidate ....
So what happened here? well, today be jay pat gave his side of the sordid to the senate judiciary committee. behind closed doors. the times is katie benner reports that his closed-door testimony lasted more than three hours. the times report that pack told investigators questioning him of the hearing that his resignation had been prompted by justice department officials warning him that president trump intended to fire him for refusing to say the widespread voter fraud had been found in georgia. as the time put said resigning would preempt a public dismissal. pack also told the committee that trump had been dismays death his office had never investigated allegations of fraud in fulton county georgia and not found any evidence to support those allegations. so, weijia pack resigned rather than be publicly fired, and so it also seems like he resigned at the request at the number two official in the justice department. why would you ask somebody to ....