search warrant served on monday. that s right, victor. we didn t expect attorney general merrick garland to come out today but he is going to be making a statement from the justice department building in downtown washington. they haven t disclosed yet exactly what it is going to be about, but you re right, there has been pressure building in recent days since this search on monday, this unprecedented search of a former president s home, that we are watching to see whether garland may want to make a statement about this. now, this isn t something that the justice department typically would comment on. it is an ongoing investigation. we don t believe that there have been charges brought at this time. we haven t seen any emerge from this. it s also about national security issues. on top of that, garland is not the type of attorney general that makes a lot of public statements, does a lot of press conferences, even whenever there were charges for seditious conspiracy, another u
a newly unsealed document shows the agency is looking into several crimes which include the, quote, willful retention of national defense information. that revelation does a couple of things, one, it intensifies the focus on former president trump as the possible or a possible subject of the investigation. trump has claimed a standing order to declassify documents he took from the white house, but in a cnn exclusive, 18 former top trump administration officials tell us they never heard of any such order issued while trump was in office. it also may be key that that law, willful retention of national defense information, it may not matter if the information was classified. we will dig into that more deeply. as the spotlight brightens on trump the doj continues its fight for some secrecy. the department expressed serious concerns that releasing the affidavit behind the search warrant could impede its investigation, also might endanger witnesses. still the judge appears to be
the most attention for critical elections that could reshape some of the most powerful roles in congress. hello, everyone. sandra smith in new york. john, hello to you. john: sandra, great to see on this tuesday. i m john roberts, this is america reports. maloney and time to an end. new york democrats facing off in the newly redrawn 12th congressional district. one of the most hostile races of the year, with maloney questioning nadler s capacity to serve another term. sandra: and john, in florida, matt gaetz goes up against two challenges in another test of the former president s influence. and marco rubio will see who he will face in november. john: and aishah hasnie is in clearwater, florida. sandra: bryan in new york city, 17th congressional district received the attention of democratic party superstars. yes, good afternoon, it has. the one hand, representative alexandria ocasio-cortez endorsing the progressive candidate, state senator alexandria biagi, an
A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. Levelling at Robert Mueller. Its much more personal than it has been in the past. The president used to sort of question the genesis of the Mueller Investigation, suggested there were a lot of conflicts of interest among his team. Now hes really going after mueller. This is of a piece with a decision that were told will be coming very soon in which the president and his legal team are likely to say and theres always a chance it could be different but were told they are likely to say that there will be no interview with Robert Mueller. The president has got the final say, but theres pretty much unaminomt. There was question that i was going to ask at the Press Conference had i been called on. The two people that were called on did not bring it up. Theres reasons why, a multitude of reasons why the president s attorneys believe that he should not sit down with him. First and foremost, they believe
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attack on his character. he can t control what happens in the hearings. bret: either shows up or doesn t, but has a little more leeway if he is not working for the federal government and they would have to go down the subpoena route to get him there and i think he s suggesting he wants to negotiate to see how the hearing ends up. john: see if that works. wall street journal yesterday in an editorial dinged fauci for conflicting messages and said this, whether you met him personally or not, he has touched all american lives with his work. president biden said monday about fauci s resignation. that s true enough, the editorial board says but legacy will be that millions of americans will never trust government health experts in the same way again. as he s on his way out the door, and not there yet, conflicting messages over masks and the evolving messages over the virus, the origins of the virus, is that forever tainted his