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part effort to overthrow the 2020 election. we will be getting to that, shortly. but, first, do you remember this photo? what you are looking at is a highly sensitive satellite photo showing an explosion at an iranian space center. this photo from an intelligence briefing was tweeted out to the world in august 2019, by none other than president trump. the fact that he gets so rattled intelligence officials and its soon led to internet sleuths being able to identify the u.s. spy satellite that took the photo. there is something about iran that has always fascinated the former presiden...

and both investigations have expanded to former members of the trump administration. former acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, and ex treasury secretary steve mnuchin both testified before the january six committee this week. any day now, the committee could hear from former secretary of state mike pompeo. meanwhile, mike pence's former top aides, marc short and greg jacobs, testified before the federal grand jury convened by attorney general merrick garland, making them some of the highest profile witnesses to testify. they are questioning at those proceedings contributed to the n...

and rea mitchell kicking off a special two-hour edition of "andrea mitchell reports" today. we are in washington as the focus on the classified documents seized from donald trump's mar-a-lago estate is going to shift in the next hour to a courthouse in west palm beach, florida. that's where trump's lawyers and the justice department are clashing over the former president's request for an independent master to go through the stack of files taken from mar-a-lago to see where any might have involved attorney/client privilege. the government says they have already done that and doing it ...

pbs, rick stengel, an msnbc political analyst and gordon chang, "newsweek" columnist. yammish, what do we know about this call between president biden and president xi jinping? >> we know the president for a long time has called china the u.s.'s main competitor and said there is this really tug of war between democracy and autocracy this is really a high-stakes call and also a call president biden is welcoming because he has said diplomacy is the thing america should be known for. he's said over and over again that america is back. there's a lot going on there. we should also note th...

>> john: begin "america reports" with form president trump under investigation by the justice department as the agency appears slow to act on the current president's son, with one republican senator now alleging a cover-up. john roberts in washington. good to be with you again. >> sandra: we made it to wednesday. i'm sandra smith in new york. "washington post" reporting the justice department is looking into the former president as part of a criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. the post says phone records of some trump officials have been seized and witnes...