including at the end of this hour, the kind of story that everybody in washington is dreaming about this summer. as you know, the town fills up with insurance in the summer. we are going to have a senate candidate joining us at the end of the hour, who began her career as an intern in the senator s office. the senator who she is trying to replace, that senator is going to be leaving the senate and she is going to maybe be the next senator, and that s the dream in washington. to go to senator. as someone who started his career as an intern in washington, i m looking forward to that. you have a great show my friend. it s a great story. thank you. we have breaking news tonight in jack smith s investigation, special prosecutor s investigation of donald trump s possible illegal possession of government documents. the department of justice has made its first discovery delivery of information to the trump team. and that discovery that has been delivered to the trump defense team
more. including at the end of this hour, the kind of story that every intern in washington s dreaming about this summer. as you know, the town fills up with insurance in the summer. we are going to have a senate candidate joining us at the end of the hour, who began her career as an intern in the senator s office. the senator who she is trying to replace, that senator is going to be leaving the senate and she is going to maybe be the next senator, and that s the dream in washington. to go to senator. as someone who started his career as an intern in washington, i m looking forward to that. you have a great show my friend. it s a great story. thank you. we have breaking news tonight in jack smith s investigation, special prosecutor s investigation of donald trump s possible illegal possession of government documents. the department of justice has made its first discovery delivery of information to the trump team. and that discovery that has been delivered to the trump defe
thanks, the news continues right here on cnn outfront. next, attorney general merrick garland and republicans go head-to-head, flashing over trump s conspiracy theories, including the former president s baseless claim but the fbi was trying to assassinate him. plus breaking news, we are now just hours away from the us, mexico border closing after biden issued strict new border the rules. but why now we re live at the border and hunter biden s laptop and his own words taking center stage in court today. let s go out front and good evening. i m erin burnett outfront tonight. i will not be intimidated. those are the exact words of attorney general merrick garland, who came under withering fire from republicans today. these repeated attacks on the justice department are unprecedented, and they are unfounded. i will not be intimidated and the justice department will not be intimidated. we will continue to do our jobs free from political influence, and we will not back down fro
whether it comports with the transcript or whether it reveals things about his capacity or his veracity, or anything else that comes from his demeanor as he as he is interviewed congressman, do you think the audio should be released absolutely not. it is a preposterous proposition to say that congress has some legitimate legislative purpose to obtain in the audio when it has the substance of the interview in transcript form, they cannot enumerate any reason for congress not necessarily the media, which is a separate issue, or the special counsel who obviously had the audio and was the one who was evaluating his demeanor to make the decision the prosecutor and he had concerned about he had concerned about the president s mental capacity. so that s why people want to see your democratic colleague in the senate, mark
prosecutors, that tiny fraction of them have talked their way out of an indictment, i would suspect the vast majority still get indicted. and of course the government would love it if a defendant or a prospective defendant came in to tell their side of the story. we will wait there with pencils and pads ready to take down notes, because they might get something useful. so donald trump benefits himself not at all if he were to go in and talk to federal prosecutors. instead, he would prefer an arena where he controls the narrative, like a rally, like going on fox news, like doing a town hall. where he can control whether he chooses to answer questions or not. but as i hope his attorneys have explained to him, and i m sure they have, anything you re going to say at a town hall, at a rally, are words that can be written down in transcript form and used against you, and believe me, if the government can, they will use those words against you. barbara, just looking at the track record of t