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also new this morning, surrounding new details surrounding former president trump s efforts to overturn the election, a georgia district attorney tells 16 so-called fake electors they are now targets of this ongoing criminal investigation in fulton county, georgia. it is a notable escalation. we ll explain why. and it comes as another election denier just secured the republican primary for governor in maryland. trump-backed candidate dan cox known for encouraging former president trump to seize voting machines will face off against the democratic nominee there in november. let s begin with the single text exchange that the secret service has provided to the january 6th committee, our justice correspondent jessica schneider is with us. just one back and forth, that s it? that s it. the committee members here continue to be dissatisfied with the secret service response. what we learned from this letter overnight, obtained by jamie gangel, the inspector general request ....
surveillance video of the actual fbi search of his home. now, in a separate case, moments ago, allen weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of trump s family business, he pleaded guilty to a 15-year tax fraud scheme. we ll have more on that in just a moment. let s begin with katelyn polantz. katelyn, set the scene for us here. reporter: this afternoon, kate, we re going to be listening for justice department prosecutors and how much they re willing to say about this ongoing investigation into the handling of classified material, potentially kept at mar-a-lago after the trump presidency. it is going to be about this affidavit, but this say court hearing over secrecy. the justice department says that this is a serious ongoing criminal investigation. it implicates highly classified materials, and that they need protections of confidentiality to keep their investigation going, to keep doing the work that they need to do to decide whether there should be a charge ....
griner s case disgusting. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight above the law. federal prosecutors making a simple case tonight against steve bannon who they say is guilty of blatantly defying the january 6 committee. if convicted he s looking at jail time. the man once dubbed donald trump s brain, bannon leaving court after the first day of testimony, lashing out at the january 6 committee and at its chairman, bennie thompson. he s too gutless to come over here himself. he s made it a crime made it a crime, not a civil charge, of wanting my testimony, but a crime. and he didn t have the courage or guts to show up here and he sent a staffer. now here is the thing. bannon now suddenly, right, after all these months, says he s willing to testify before the january 6th committee. but according to thompson, bannon hasn t even handed over the documents they ve demanded in advance of an appearance which he has refused to do until ....
seconds, ago lawyers for the former president took the next step in the effort to force an independent review of materials taken from his florida mansion. they are court. filing, which we just got our hands on a second ago, caps a day of reaction to a justice department filing. and the picture, this one in attachment f, it shows highly classified documents that the fbi says it s found despite written assurance two months prior according to doj. that none remain there. cnn s learned that trump attorney and former ankara christina bob, was one of the people giving that assurance, signing a letter saying. so the doj filing goes on to say the documents were quote, likely concealed and removed from a storage room at mar-a-lago as part of an effort to quote, obstruct, unquote the fbi investigation. it says that some recovered items were so highly classified that even some fbi counter intelligence personnel and others needed additional security clearances to review them. so, t ....
very political nature in this case. i don t think we need any of those things. you have norm eisen filing a brief in the case. he s been all over anti-trump stuff forever. just play it straight. if the documents are as the government says, they re going to have to be a lot of answers provided. and here now is the aforementioned norm eisen, former house judiciary special counsel and donald trump s first impeachment trial, as you heard, norm filed a brief in opposition to trump s request for a special master. thank you for being with us. your name was invoked. your response. well, john, this is such an important case that not me, i was just one of the lawyers for the case with the distinguished group of co-counsel, but seven leading gop legal voices, from every administration prior to donald trump s going back to the reagan administration put together this brief because they wanted to say to the judge, and there is not a political word in it, it is about the law. and ....