i join with everyone there and across the country in thinking of those innocent wonderful people gunned down while simply going shopping. may they rest in peace, and may their memories be a blessing. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room". thanks very much for watching. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, indictment warnings. a georgia official warned he could be indicted as part of an investigation into trump's efforts to overturn the election. former attorney ty cobb saying this could pose a serious threat of indictment to trump himself. >> plus, the indiana doctor who performed a legal abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim fighting back after her state's attorney general lobbed baseless accusations saying she broke the law. the doctor's attorney who filed a cease and desist is up next. and a surge of migrants

coming from 100 different countries. this is something border officials have never seen before. let's go "outfront". >> and good evening. i'm erin burnett. a georgia district attorney leading the investigation into trump's efforts to overturn the election, warning a top georgia georgia republican official he may be indicted. willis sending a target letter, a specific word here, to georgia gop party chairman david schaeffer. schaeffer has told the january 6th committee that the fake elector's plat phrot in georgia came at the direction of the trump campaign. and yahoo! news first reported this target letter and is also reporting tonight that several other georgia republicans received similar letters warning of possible indictments. now, of course as we all know, georgia is ground zero for investigators when it comes to trump election schemes. the fulton county investigation was prompted because of that infamous phone call, right, it

was stprtribed when donald trum called brad raffensperger with this request. >> all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. >> one more than we have. well, that now finally could be what it is that puts trump himself into legal jeopardy. in fact, his former white house lawyer, ty cobb, spoke to us tonight. and i want to quote what he said. he said the georgia case, under the control of the fulton county district attorney, appears to pose a serious threat of indictment to the former president. i mean, it is incredible you to stop and think all of this talk and you could be looking at indictment of a former president. it is a major development. it comes as the january 6th committee itself is asking for answers from the secret service

about those missing text messages. saying where are they, where are the text messages. they sent set from january 5th and 6th. the day before and the day of the insurrection, obviously. the inspector general said the messages were deleted, and erp they are deleted after the agency watch dog requested them. so the request comes in. then all of a sudden they get deleted. today we are learning the dhs inspector general told the committee that he went to secretary mayorkas more than once about the lack of secret service cooperation with the investigation. that raises significant and serious questions in and of itself. evan, let's start where i just finished. which is this back and forth between the secret service, inspector general. what more are you learning about this? >> reporter: well, erin, one of the interesting things that joseph cafari, the inspector

general, briefed members today on capitol hill this afternoon. one of the things he said is the secret service, it appears, did not do an after action report january 6th. that appears to have been a surprise to him. instead, what secret service was doing was relying on the inspector general to look into how the secret service conducted itself in the days before january 6th and of course on that day. and so that's one of the interesting things you told the committee. he said that, you know, obviously because he believed they were foot dragging that he wasn't to alejandro mayorkas to try to force them to turn over all of these documents and emails that he was requesting. and he said that, you know, obviously that's one of the things that they're still working to go through. all the documents that they have now been turned over. now, we heard later from members of the committee, erin, and it's clear they're not sure what this

means. they want to hear more from the secret service because they don't know which version of events to believe. we heard from the homeland security department tonight that they say that they're urging and working to make sure that the secret service is cooperating with this investigation. and of course these members of this committee say they're hoping that the secret service can find a way to resurrect some of the messages they believe were deleted as part of this migration of devices, erin. >> thank you very much, evan. now let's go to the reporter who broke the story about the georgia d.a. sending the target letters. michael isikoff. also with me, dana bash, co-anchor of state of the union. and elie honig for the southern district of new york. your report is obviously extremely significant here. you spoke with the fulton county d.a. what more are you learning about these target letters?

what was in them and what was in them, and the fallout? . >> well, yeah, first of all, this is an extremely important development in this investigation. i mean, willis has been the most aggressive prosecutor investigating donald trump and the conduct of his allies after the 2020 election. she's been far ahead of the department of justice in pursuing potential witnesses. and with this latest development, target letters to those who participated in that fake elector scheme on december 14th at the state capitol in georgia, as well as in other states, trump electors met in secret, behind closed doors, kicked the press out, and anointed themselves the bona fide electors from the state of georgia to send to the national archives and to the u.s.

congress, providing material -- grounds for vice president pence to reject the real electors who were voted in by the voters and substitute these trump electors. as we reported today, willis has sent target letters to at least some of those fake electors, and they're pretty significant players. among them, david schaeffer, chairman of the georgia republican party. he presided over the fake elector meeting that day in the state capitol on december 14th. and burk jones, republican candidate for lieutenant governor. >> right. >> running mate of brian kemp running against stacey abrams. this is an extremely high-profile race. aside from the legal

complications, it is clear this has major political implications as well. >> elie, focus for a second on the legalism indications, right. these target letters going out, how significant are they? talk to me about where this, you know, where this goes down a track from here. >> well, erin, it's a big step and one that prosecutors never take lightly to issue a target letter. in any investigation from the prosecutors' perspective, there are basically three categories of people involved. the lowest level, your witnesses, which is exactly what it sounds like. somebody who witnessed something but had nothing to do with the criminality. the middle level is subjects. that's somebody who could be within the purview of the grand jury. and the highest level is a target, somebody prosecutors believe they have significant evidence linking that person to a crime and may well end up as a defendant. short of an actual indictment itself, getting a target letter is the worst thing someone can receive. >> obviously, elie is making it

clear that there is a lot of evidence to back it up. you have a prosecutor making this decision, dana. she is a democrat. the people she is sending letters to are republicans. the one michael just mentioned on the ticket is republican nominee for lieutenant governor burt jones. his opponent has been running on the fake elector scheme and jones's role. i point out a lot of facts go into this. they are trying to get jones disqualified now. ty cobb is trump's former lawyer. and this is an experienced prosecutor. does all of that political layering hurt her? >> well, certainly it makes it easier for republicans from their perspective to fund raise off of this, to try to attack

here and try to undermine the case by just saying it is purely political. it's kind of the oldest trick in the book when somebody is up against the wall legally in a case like this. the reality is that a d.a. is, for the most part especially in this case, is somebody who is a partisan. that's why you have different layers and different levels of investigations. and what i mean by that is this is a state investigation, which michael said absolutely right, it seems to be way ahead of what is going on here in washington. >> right. >> and is extremely significant nonetheless. but there is another track, actually multiple tracks going on here in washington. the most important of which is the department of justice. and there, just this week, we know that the committee, the january 6th committee turned over documents about this very

topic. >> yes. >> -- to the justice department. about this fake elector scheme. i guess it's a long way of saying is, yes, they can call it political on the state level because of the players involved. but, first of all, to get to this point, as elie said, you do need it to go beyond politics. you need a pool of people who see this and see potential facts and potential crime to get to this point. >> right. obviously it is significant. the context you put in is important, right. what we understand, bennie thompson said specifically, the fake elector scheme is what the doj is pursuing first and foremost. so it fits with that. i have heard again and again from lawyers who have been involved at this or looking at it, this is the crucial situation that they are looking at for a potential indictment of a former president. and ty cobb said, quote, the georgia case appears to pose

serious indictment to the former president. do you agree, elie? >> well, first of all, i agree with michael isikoff, this is the investigation that seems to be moving the most quickly of the various ones out there. i do agree that of those investigations, we don't know where any of them will land. but the one that is most likely to result in an indictment of donald trump himself is this fulton county investigation. but, erin, it's so important that people understand, if there is some day an indictment, it is a long and difficult road from indictment to conviction, not least of which because of the factors that we just talked about, a county level prosecutor trying to indict and imprison a former president. there will be challenges to that constitutionally in federal court. and if you ever do get to a jury, it is not majority rules. you need unanimity. that gets more difficult when donald trump announces his candidacy. >> that is the context in which

this is all going to play out. and the former president indicating he's going to run again and when he is going to announce that and that whole cat and mouse game he's playing. willis told you she is requesting that he testify under oath to the grand jury. she has spoken to his lawyer as recently as yesterday. can you give more context to that conversation with her? >> this was an interview that my colleague dan and i had just yesterday. i asked a question, almost a throw-away question. will donald trump be asked to testify? are you considering asking donald trump to testify. she was pretty blunt. she said, yes, we are weighing that. then they pointed out she had spoken with the lawyer that donald trump has retained in georgia to represent him in this matter as recently as yesterday. so it does -- one way of processing that is that trump

may actually want to go before that fulton county grand jury. somehow he thinks maybe he can woo them or persuade them that he had legitimate grounds for questioning the results of the election. we don't know that for sure. all we know is willis said she is contemplating doing it. and so that's definitely a space worth watching. . >> dana? >> it's definitely space worth watching. and if you talk to people who are in and around the former president still, i talked to somebody who talks quite frequently to him this week. and it's -- what we are seeing in georgia, what we are seeing at the doj, most importantly, what we are seeing in the united states house of representatives with these hearings, is trump is fixated on it. and he's thinking about his 2024 run through the prism of that.

not whether he will run. all indicators is he does plan to do it. but when he wants to make that announcement. he's thinking about it when it comes to the timing of these, about the narrative changing. and even the political peril he is in about trying to get out ahead of things potentially getting even worse by putting his candidacy out there. >> thank you all very much. and to everyone, don't miss dana and state of the union this sunday. she is going to be joined by the arizona governor doug ducey and congresswoman aloria. up next, the doctor fighting back after completely baseless accusations that were completely easy to check. biden said he would make the saudis pay after the death of jamal khashoggi. today he was fist bumping the

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tonight cease and desist. an indiana doctor who performed a legal abortion is fighting back against accusations that she broke the law, accusations that are completely fabricated like this one from the attorney

general for the entire state of indiana. >> we have this abortion activist acting as a doctor with a history of failing to report. so we're gathering the information. we're gathering the evidence as we speak. and we're going to fight this to the end, including looking at her licensure, if she failed to report in indiana it's a crime to intentionally not report. >> okay. well, we have the document. cnn has the documents that show dr. bernard reported the abortion procedure to the indiana department of health and she did it on july 2nd, 2022. that is three days after the procedure was performed. and that is consistent with the law in the state of indiana. so here in new york we were able to look at the documents and read them and see she was fully compliant with the law. how does the republican attorney general in indiana not have the ability to do that? obviously, i'm asking the

question hypothetically. it's obviously absurd. a 10-year-old child in ohio who was raped and forced to cross state lines did so because of the strict six-week abortion ban. no exceptions for rape or i incest. when republicans heard 10-year-old rape victim they questioned whether she even existed. now a suspect police say has admitted to reigning her is behind bars. "outfront" now, kathleen delaney, the attorney for dr. bernard. and, kathleen, i really appreciate your time. so i want to start with the cease and desist letter tonight that you sent to mr. akita. we have literally seen the documents. we have them here in new york. they show your client reported the procedure. she did so exactly as she is required to by law. what does your new legal filing hope to accomplish? . >> well, first of all, erin, thank you for having me and for

paying attention to this very important case. we're hoping to accomplish a couple of things with our letter. first, we want mr. rikita to stop lying about dr. bernard and smearing her reputation and making ridiculously unsupported accusations when, even the bearest minimum homework on his part would have found the work had been timely done. we want him to stop the smear and this dangerous rhetoric where he is whipping people up into a frenzy at a very unsettled time in our nation's history. we want to make sure our client stays safe >> are you prepared to take stronger action against the attorney general? has your client been receiving all sorts of threats because of what the attorney general has said? . >> well, she has security at her home. and we are doing what we can to make sure she's protected.

and in terms of what we're going to do next, we're going to do the opposite of what the attorney general did. we're going to take our time and gather the facts and research the law and put together our case thoughtfully and deliberately. we're not going to shoot from the hip and start throwing accusations around when they have no basis in fact. >> so your client is a doctor who is in her office with a 10-year-old girl in this horrific situation comes in. and she helps her and performs this abortion and reports it as she is supposed to. she sees this innocent child. and yet some republicans and right-wing media questioned whether this little child even existed. here some of them are. >> so, dave, have you had anybody come to you in your state to say we're looking into this, a police report was filed?

>> not a whisper. i know our prosecutors and cops in our state. there isn't one who wouldn't be turning over every rock in their jurisdiction if they had the slightest hint that this had occurred. . >> tweeted it was a lie -- >> the news story, yeah. the real story is this is a heinous crime by an illegal immigrant. and i hope he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. >> do you regret saying it's a lie, though? . >> why did the biden administration repeat a story about a 10-year-old child who got pregnant and was not allowed to get an abortion when it turns out the story was not true? >> it's amazing. just absolutely amazing. you look at things like that and how are we living in a world where people can say those without impunity do not say, i made a mistake. obviously, all those things were false, every one of them.

what was dr. bernard's reaction to this, all of this going on out there when she is the one sitting in that room with that little girl? >> well, the part here that is so remarkable from our point of view is that republicans want to pretend there is no 10-year-old rape victim, they want to pretend that dr. bernard made the whole story up because this case shows in full color the harm that is caused by abortion bans. the abortion ban in ohio is why the child had to travel to the state to get necessary medical care. it's outrageous, and it's one of the most poignant examples we've seen recently of how bad these bans are. >> yeah. we should say -- >> they don't want to talk about it. . >> the person who admitted to reigning her, at least he's put behind bars. and one of those sound bites, not a whisper of a police

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facing questions about this photo, the fist bump, that was quickly released by the saudi government. the very person that biden said he would make a pariah when he was campaigning for the white house. biden telling reporters after the meeting with mbs today that he brought up the murder of "washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi with the crown prince. . >> i raised it at the top of the meeting, making it clear what i thought at the time and what i think of it now.

i said very straightforwardly, for an american president to be silent on an issue of human rights is inconsistent with who we are and who i am. . >> and of course then it's the definition of, you know, what is silence, what is taking action? phil mattingly is live "outfront" from jeddah tonight. phil, there were a lot of questions whether he would confront the crown prince about khashoggi's murder. what more can you tell us about that conversation and what went on behind the scenes to even get to that point? >> reporter: yeah, erin, what's most interesting, the reason there were questions is because officials, including the president, declined to say explicitly he was going to do so. officials i have spoken to made it clear they long viewed it a necessity, not because of the message delivered to the crown prince and his top advisers, but he would have to describe what he said in that press conference

later. we saw that the president ended up holding. u.s. officials know this is going to be a closely watched moment and one they are criticized for. they also view it as integral in their efforts to move forward in this region. certainly on the issues of oil with gas prices soaring in the united states but also more broadly in a region that is both dynamic and shifting dramatically. that's worth noting they weren't the only ones trying to get a message out. you hit on a critical point. it was minutes after that the saudi press agency was tweeting out videos, pictures. they also did something the u.s. president also didn't have access to. they had videos from inside the bilateral meeting with the crowns prince and his advisers. they also had the crown prince giving fist bumps to the entire team. national security adviser, secretary of state, down the line, making clear to get that image out, an image the u.s. press wasn't allowed to do. >> it is amazing how they would do that and give the fist bumps.

there's just something about it, right, the chummey it applies, the bro culture. it's all of it. as they are facing major challenges at home, senator joe manchin, again, the extremely powerful democratic senator from west virginia putting the nail in the coffin for biden's domestic agenda. he is not going to support the climate provisions in the economic package. he's not going to support the tax provisions, including taxes on the wealthy. what's biden's response? >> you know, it's worth first taking a step back. this president came in office with the most bold and sweeping climate proposals to put on the table than any president in history. . >> yeah. >> reporter: none of them are going to move in the united states congress based on what senator manchin did. manchin kept the door open on lowering preparation drug costs. the president said take that deal, move forward. in a statement he said if the

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back to mexico. the countries we are receiving now, the nationalities, are flying in, arriving to the border and, you know, having to be processed. there are just so many of them it is posing a challenge to the workforce. >> reporter: authorities can turn back migrants at the southwest border, back to their origin countries. it doesn't apply to everyone. with countries like venezuela and cuba, keeps the u.s. from removing certain people, meaning they might be released while going through immigration proceedings >> with technology and resources not only for our agents but the overall mission, former surveillance systems, we continue to add to the processing and the humane care of the migrants in custody. wrap-around medical services, food contracts to make sure we've got plenty of food to be able to take care of those in custody. >> reporter: the pace of people journeying north presents a

steep challenge for president biden and one he raised with the mexican president this week. >> one of those is migration. at historic levels throughout our hemisphere. like us, mexico has become a top destination of migrants. and here's what we're going to do to address it together. >> reporter: the u.s. has looked to countries further south for help, including costa rica, where many migrants travel through. an agreement between the two obtained by cnn outlines commitments to strengthen enforcement, exchange information on migrant flows, and stabilize host communities. biden continues to face political pressure from republicans who say he is not doing enough. arizona governor doug ducey signed legislation to shore up funds for border security. and following the example set by texas, he has sent 25 buses with migrants to washington, d.c. even so, people continue to come with hope of a new life on the horizon.

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united states. bannon calls it the precinct strategy. . >> we're going to take over everything from school boards all the way up to the house and the senate. >> he is really talking about from the ground up, remaking a party that is trump loyal, maga loyal kind of party. . >> i want to start with dan schultz. >> reporter: the author is a local, a local arizona attorney. >> if we don't take over the republican party, we are going to lose our republic. >> reporter: his step-by-step tutorial for taking over republican politics is almost gospel, inspiring thousands of believers of the election lie to get involved. gop leaders in 20 counties in mostly battle ground states told cnn they have spine a spike in participation. >> the precinct committee

strategy. dan schultz. oh, my gosh. did you know we had a precinct in my neighborhood? i'm the committee person now. just feeling library, hey, i'm actually doing something. >> reporter: they are all doing something because of bannon. jodie is a long shot running for stacey abrams' old seat in the georgia house of representatives. wendy is running for georgia house district 52 and may actually win. stacy is now a republican precinct chair, registering voters and recruiting poll watchers. >> i'm a precinct committee person. my friends and i decided we don't want to sit around anymore. it is time to take it back. that's what we're doing. >> reporter: without exemption, they believe joe biden lost in november 2020. and the election was stolen. >> did biden get more than obama? no way. >> no way. >> he got the most votes of any president ever.

and i just remember the energy around obama. and there was -- >> there's still energy around obama. . >> oh, yeah. . >> i just didn't see that lining up. >> for me, my thing with it is i just would like to know what happened. and i do think that the evidence is there and it's not being seen. . >> this is the belief is still there. it's just so powerful to see it as you have those interviews. this ultra maga takeover of the republican party, people like bannon are orchestrating and selling to people who believe it is happening. on a broad basis, a lot of people don't realize it's going down. do you get a feel for how far the plan is on taking us? >> reporter: i think it's well advanced, i've got to tell you. when we go across the country to these county kind of republican conventions, they are filled with people who are detached

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the "new york times" said police were investigating whether miss trump fell down the stairs of her home yesterday. they married in 1977, of course had three children, ivanka, don jr. and eric. she was 73 years old. thanks so much for joining us. ac "360" begins now. good evening. new information to report on the january 6th investigation starting with those missing secret service text messages dating from january 6th and january 5th. now, we've learned the january 6th committee now wants to meet with officials from the secret service. today they were briefed by the inspector general who oversees the agency. and a source familiar with the briefing said they made a number of allegations including, according to the source, the inspector general told the committee that secret service did not conduct its own after-action review about the january 6th. instead, they were relying on the