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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 ....
day, there is another question. do you indicted former president? what will that do to the country? what kind of precedent will that set? i don t want to see him indicted is a former president. but i also think they will be under a lot of pressure to indict him, because if anybody else would have gotten indicted, why not indict him? the justice department does have to decide by friday if it will accept a judges order to appoint a special master in the case or file an appeal. the doj appears to be widening its separate investigation into events leading up to the capitol riot. according to the new york times the fbi is looking to talk to more people, including william russell, a former white house aide who continued working for trump after he left office. the times said russell has been subpoenaed. it has been 20 months. tweet think about that. 20 months since the rioters stormed the capitol. today in an alarming report shows the extremism behind the insurrection. it is ....
the social media chaos machine? the 11th hour, wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. as the former president faces ongoing mar-a-lago investigations, steve bannon is expected to face a new indictment just hours from. now one of that his lawyers says that the onetime trump s trump strategist is on his way to surrender to manhattan s district attorney in the morning. washington post said this case probably similar to ban in federal indictment in a fraud scheme to build trump s border wall. but those charges never stop. trump pardoned abandon on his way out of the white house. bannon of course is now facing sentencing next month after defying a subpoena from the january 6th committee. trump himself may will be considering his next move in his battle with the department of justice over those classified documents he has been keeping down at mar-a-lago. he may want to pay close attention to the latest warning from his former attorney general, bill bar ....
of dollars of fines. this is not something that s going to happen immediately. the judge has set october 21st as the sentencing date. it will be a few months before we know what sentence is going to be handed down. it s been clear from bannon s attorneys throughout this trial that they do intend to appeal. because these are misdemeanor charges it s very possible that we could see the judge delay any kind of, you know, whether bannon has to serve any kind of sentence until after they go through that appeals process. we just don t know that yet. what we do know is this is a big boost to the house select committee. this is a reaffirmation of their investigative power, of their subpoena power, at a time when they re wrangling with a bunch of different witnesses. peter navarro is another person who defied his subpoena and is poised to go to trial over that. it s a win for the justice department. they ve come under a lot of scrutiny, criticism in terms of how they re investig ....
one of the revelations in this wide-ranging report on the uvalde massacre. it describes widespread failures, egregious poor decision-making that resulted in more than an hour of chaos in the, quote, lackadaisical approach by those sent to help. the report states law enforcement failed to prioritize saving innocent lives over their own safety and failed to adhere to active shooter training. the police chief failed to assume his responsibility of incident command, the report says. the report says the robb elementary school lockdown was likely delayed by poor wifi connectivity. and the school also had reoccurring problems with maintaining its doors and locks, those are just a few of the revelationes in this report. and uvalde s mayor is releasing dramatic new video showing the first moments that officers arrived on the scene there at the school. shots fired. get inside. go. go. go. the new body camera footage gives a close up view of the action, but mainly the inacti ....