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no indication. >> where celebration was he contemplating. >> some event in the madison area. >> he planned this for several weeks, for the highland park shooting. any last questions for the state's attorney? all right, folks. this is probably going to conclude our formal press briefings on this matter. if there is breaking news or anything major that does develop, we will call a press conference. otherwise, i would not anticipate major press briefings like this. investigators have months to go continuing their investigation into this. we'll be collaborating very closely with the stat...

>> what do you think are the chances you can get an acquittal? >> i would not comment. >> reporter: she was detained on february 17th. prosecutors claiming she was carrying two vaping cartridges with about .07 oil a crime in russia that can carry a sentence of up to ten years in praise colony. the u.s. considers her being rong wrongfully detained. >> wrongful detention is unacceptable where ever it occurs. the united states government, at the very high e est levels is working hard to bring mi miss griner as well as all wrongfully detained u.s. citizens safely home. >> reporter: her t...

the committee may be flexing its oversight power to illuminate what happened on january 6th. but the d.o.j. is apparently investigating the president himself. key aides to mike pence and his lead counsel have already testified in front of a federal grand jury. pretty high up. they asked hours and hours of detailed questions about meetings that trump himself led, one that was described to the january 6th committee. remember this? >> mr. eastman came in. he said i'm here to request that you reject the electorate. i said we would lose 9-0 in the supreme court, wouldn't we? he started, w...

over to cnn tonight. >> everyone now hates this whole thing. is there a caramel burrito coming at some point? if the push pop goes, i'm out of here. thank you so much, everyone. that just ruined our day. thank you, anderson cooper. we appreciate it. i am laura coates and this is cnn tonight. so, for everyone out there wondering which came first, the chicken or the egg? or maybe the doj or the committee investigation. it might become more clear. the committee maybe flexing its legislative and oversight powers to illuminate what led up to and what really happened on january 6th. but th...

statements or about holding a press conference. the justice department declined all of those requests that i was just referencing because we did not think that they were appropriate based on the facts and the law. >> repeated attempts to over turn the election. much of yesterday hearing focused on jeffrey clark who played a central role in pushing trump's false election frauds and who trump wanted to install as the acting attorney general. just hours before yesterday's hearing, federal agents raided clark's home. we'll have much more on what led them to do that. >> our panel of exper...