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smoke because of canadian wildfires. 75 million americans under air quality alert. when will the smoke clear? plus amanda gorman has her book pulled from a miami area grade school because one parent complained. turns out the parent never actually read the book. we begin with the growing legal jeopardy that former president trump faces in the federal documents investigation. a letter from the justice department to the former president s attorneys saying he is a target in a federal investigation. it s often but not always a strong sign that the person in question will be indicted. it is hard to overstate the unprecedented nature of this latest development. kaitlan collins joins us now with what we know. what is the latest on this letter and what is the trump team reaction? we haven t gotten a formal reaction from the trump legal team so far. we do know that justice department prosecutors did inform the former president s legal team that he is a target in that federa ....
Congress. contempt of congress, yes, sir. and i think, anderson, with bannon, i call him the four horsemen of the grifter verse. you have steve bannon, alex jones, and mike flynn. they practice good operational security. the thing we re going to find in the data is that their assistants did not. a lot of times the people working for them are making calls to individuals that could be pretty dark or nefarious. i think bannon could be in trouble again. we had access to massive amount of data. the doj, the fbi, they have access to data that i used to use when i was back in the intelligence community. anderson, i m not telling people to be overly positive. it s been a long time. but i do think when you re looking at these individuals being called in, there are data threads that have been pulled. and i do really want to thank the team that i have, the forensic team. they really are the anonymous heroes. it was hurtful what happened right when i came out to talk ....
And fbi. it s obvious to point out here, not being told that you re being indicted is not the same as not receiving a target letter. you would get the target letter before the actual indictment, what happened. and trump also spoke to maggie haberman of the new york times. he denied he s been told he s being indicted. that s different than saying you have not gotten a target letter from the doj. i should also remind viewers that earlier this week, trump s attorneys went to the justice department to meet with justice department officials. they were in the fourth floor of that building. jack smith, the special counsel, was in the room for that meeting. but i m told he did not say a word in there. he walked in there, he said hello, he said good-bye, but he did not have anything else to say in that meeting, which was more of the trump team airing their grievances, their complaints about the special counsel s investigation. in term of a time line or next steps, it could be very quick. ....
Mishandling of classified documents, of course an investigation that we ve been tracking closely here at cnn. the reason this is significant for people sitting at home is that this could mean that the special counsel s investigation is moving closer to a possible indictment of the former president. it s not guaranteed, of course. and i should note that we have several sources on this. they have not directly seen this letter, anderson, but they have been informed of it and its contents. so, this is a troublesome sign, obviously, for the former president s legal team. i spoke to one person in their orbit who said, yes, everyone is alarmed by this. it s a great cause for them. the question, of course, what happens next, remains to be seen. it doesn t mean he will be indicted, but it s not a sign and not a letter that any legal team wants to get. and has the former president himself addressed this somewhere? he s writing on truth social today. he said earlier, quote, no one has told me ....