>> that donald trump is under criminal investigation. i was thinking today imagine if you and i were to discuss today that george w. bush or barack obama was under criminal investigation. like, that is just inconceivable. but we see that donald trump is under criminal investigation and we go of course. because given the amount of evidence, and given the fact that we have hundreds of prosecutions of people who were sent to the capitol by donald trump for his benefit who have been prosecuted, at this point it's really almost only fair that trump is under investigation as well. because, like, who benefited from all those crimes that we know we're committed? >> you think the evidence is so heavy that you go, of course. is that what you believe? >> of course he should be under investigation. i am not prepared to say at this point that he should be indicted or he should be convicted, but if you look at -- you know, it's very important that these two witnesses we know about from earlier this week, pence's former chief of staff, his former lawye

launch a criminal investigation, of donald trump. the leaking from the grand jury, almost never comes from the investigators or the grand jurors, but it usually does come from the witnesses themselves, who have every legal right to reveal publicly everything that happened in a grand jury room or the leaking comes from lawyers for the witnesses or associates of lawyers for the witnesses or friends of lawyers for the witnesses. when prominent people in washington d. c. like marc short testified to the grand jury it's in virtually impossible for that to remain secret the other way we will get strong indicators of the progress of the federal criminal investigation of donald trump, or court filings by the justice department. and so we learned today that federal investigators obtained a second search warrant to look at the contents of the phone of john eastman, the trump attorney who advocated using fake electors to the electoral college, to fraudulently overturn the presidential election. a court filing today by the justice department says

washington post broke the news historic news under the headline, justice department investigating trump's actions in january six criminal probe. that headline will now mark the moment in history when we learned that a former president of the united states is being investigated in a federal criminal investigation. donald trump already made history as the first former president to be subject of a criminal investigation by a local district attorney with fulton county district attorney investigating donald trump for possible criminal interference in the georgia election. yesterday, the washington post published a company of a subpoena to kelly thompson, a republican member of the arizona state senate. in that subpoena, which begins with the words, you are commanded, the justice department commands her to produce any and all communication to, from, with or including any member, employee or agent of donald j trump or any organization advocating in favor of the 2020 reelection of donald trump. that same subpoena also demands any communications with her about trump lawyers john eastman, jenna ellis among other trump operatives,

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but congress was never set up to conduct criminal investigations of and sort or criminal investigationsstice department or u.s. attorney to targ -- effort to target an individual or group of individuals, the enterprise of the january 6 committee is unconstitutional, it is troubling there not a single judge in washington, d.c. not one, who has reached that conclusion. yet this goes to the heart of our constitutional construct. you can't have joe biden making legislation by executive orders by claiming national emergency or congress investigating a not for legislative purposes, but criminal purposes, and to set up individuals and violate the bill of rights, you cannot have the courts legislating and executing, it becomes a mess. that is what the left in this country wants, what nancy pelosi wants, they do not believe in our constitutional construct, 3 separate branches, equal branch, balancing and challenging eachns other, they want to control it all, that is why they to destroy the supreme court. that is why when they are in office they use executive orders like someone handing out legis

congress was never set up to conduct criminal investigations any of sort or criminal investigations ast of a justice department, u.s. attorney's effort, to target an individual or group of individuals. so beyond the outrageous make-up of january 6 committees, entire enterprise of the january 6 committee is unconstitutional. in is not a single judge in washington, d.c. not one, who has reached that conclusion. yet this goes to the heart of our constitutional construct. you can't have joe biden making legislation by executive orders or congress investigating not for legislative purposes but criminal purposes and to set up individuals and violate the bill of rights, you cannot have the courts legislating executing, it becomes a mess, that is what the lift wants. -- what the left wants, what nancy pelosi wants, they do not believe in our constitutional, construct. they want to control it all. they want to destroy the supreme court and pack it with like mind they use executive orders like someone handing out legislation, that is why they use congress as a criminal investigation body, this i

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and this matter complicates potentially other ongoing criminal investigations that the secret service has of their own. because it's raising questions constantly about their competency and their competency to retain items of evidentiary value. acting quickly and with full transparency is essential for the secret service right now in cooperating with the 1/6 committee. >> you're right. what does it tell you that marc short, the former chief of staff to then-vice president mike pence, now we have learned testified last week in front of a federal grand jury investigating the january 6th insurrection? >> well, wolf, this is a significant step forward for doj's investigation. marc short is the highest ranking and i think best placed person who we know of who has gone into the grand jury so far. and marc short sort of has the two things you really look for in a key witness. one, he had access. he was inside the white house. he was one of the people who stood strong with mike pence against the pressure campaign, and the second thing is based on what we have seen of marc short testifying in t

an ongoing criminal investigation. that's right. an ongoing criminal investigation. all of these developments coming to light thanks to the house select committee's quest for accountability. a number of these bombshells dropping during the panels primetime hearing thursday night. the committee, taking nearly three hours to trace what the associated press calls, quote, an arc of carnage rot by trump. we're going to talk about all of this a little later in the hour. in case you missed it, we are going to re-air thursday's primetime hearing in its entirety, top to bottom, so you can see that arc for yourself. that's going to begin tonight at 7 pm eastern. let's turn, first, for access to reproductive health care. a month after the supreme court's ruling overturning roe versus raid, the battle over new abortions restrictions are leading to confusion and new obstacles for doctors and for their patience. for now, abortion access remains legal in kentucky. friday a kentucky jog ruled new abortion restrictions violate right to

you're criminal investigations, mr. morris or i want to thank you for being here today, and i also want to thank you for your willingness to take this investigation on that. the conclusion of viewing the 2 videos, i will share a few comments and open up the press conference for questions. please keep in mind that as you ask your questions, mayor organ and 9 may not be able to answer your question. first and foremost, we may not have the information. secondly, we don't want to do anything that directly impacts the credibility in dependency of this investigation. so we'll go, we're going to both be mindful of how we miss hall. since i just arrived here in ohio 10 months ago, there may be questions that you have the no, i will defer to war cities, g prosecutor, mr. craig morgan, we're deputy police chief ryan horton. at this time, we're going to play the 1st video, which in turn of know, described to you. we thought was video provide content and details to the terminal. on monday, june 27th. 2022. at 12 30 in the morning, a

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a grand jury that is preparing as part of a criminal investigation for the possibility of charging people with crimes. >> so, carroll, in your peace you described two tracks of investigation in your report. attract leading to potential's seditious his verse each arduous and in obstruction of an official proceeding on the one hand and another related to fraud regarding the fake electoral scheme. do we know which track the justice department's gathered more infamous evidence and information, and is leading predicting one way or no they're, can we tell from their question? >> there are three different offices burrowing into these specific tracks. i don't know the answer to your question, i sure wish i did. but i would imagine they are steaming full steam ahead on all of these tracks and obviously, based on the grand jury witnesses who were brought in, the fake electors piece is perhaps further along than any other. keep in mind that when the justice department considers conspiracy, conspiracy can be an agreement between any number of people to try to accomplish some nefarious scheme using fr

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your poor reporting says the doj is investigating trump's actions as part of its criminal probe into the attempt to overturn the election. it's clearly not something that happens overnight. can you walk us through your reporting on how this particular angle on the doj investigation is come about? >> yes, happy to do so. my colleagues and i learned some really interesting things about that roadmap of what i call team trump investigation. as you know, very well, the department of justice began almost on january 7th investigating the attack on the capital, starting with the rioters who breached the building and stormed the capitol, who assaulted law enforcement officers, who broke in essentially, they were a mixture of trespassers and seditious conspiracies according to the department of justice. but the criticism of merrick garland, our attorney general and also the department of justice has been the glacial case with which it is a turn its attention to another potential crime. that is, the way that donald trump and his allies appeared at least on the face to be using fraudulent informa

this is now a criminal investigation.he perspective of the january 6th committee, they want to know what was going on, what was going on in those communications, on those key days. because again, there are things that we still don't have answers to about what the vice president, what the security around the vice president was dealing with, at the capital, versus what the president was trying to do, trying to come to the capitol, as part of the large protest, fred. >> evan, let's shift gears a little bit and now talking about steve bannon, former strategist for former president trump, now found guilty of criminal contempt of congress, that happened just yesterday. through his attorney, and he, they say they want to appeal. so now what? >> yeah, they said they're going to appeal, which means that this is a process that could take into next summer. we know that he is scheduled, bannon is scheduled to be sentenced in october, but they say this is far from over. and of course, you know, fred, that he has tried to make this a b

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committee members making it clear they want the department to act. >> i hope they have a criminal investigationo donald trump. >> reporter: meanwhile, an investigation in georgia is lurching forward. the district attorney dealt a blow today, a judge blocking her from investigating state senator burt jones who is running for lieutenant governor. while the d.a. can gather evidence about his role as a fake elector, she cannot make him a target of her probe because she hosted a fundraiser for his opponent. but another major witness, governor brian kemp did cooperate by submitting a video statement to the grand jury. kemp resisted pressure from trump to stand in the way of the certification of the election in georgia. kemp's office declined to comment on the message, the governor shared with the jurors. there is no time clock on the investigation that is greatly expanding by the department of justice. the same cannot be said for the january 6th select committee. conventional wisdom dictated they would wrap things up by the election but committee members are now saying they may continue their work pa

for january 6th, we're learning the doj is probing donald trump's actions as part of its criminal investigation. the questions they're asking >>> president biden testing negative for covid, leaving isolation after six days how he's feeling. >>> just in, the major reversal by senator joe manchin, weeks after he appeared to dash the democrats' agenda. the breakthrough deal just announced >>> the record breaking heat in the pacific northwest. and remembering one of the most beloved big brothers in sitcom history.

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we have now learned that there is a criminal investigation involving them.it to have a criminal investigation into something involving the secret service like this? >> yeah, well, it is very unusual. look, i think this -- this goes back to early 2021, where the -- where the inspector general was notified by the secret service that these messages were accidentally purged for lack of a better word during the data migration process. so i think as this kind of moves over to a criminal investigation, by the ig, i think there is a big conflict of interest right now on the part of the ig. i think the secret service is prepared to make that case, based on the on and off requests from the ig about wanting this information, then saying that they didn't, and then turning it back on, and also the very late nature of the letter from the ig going to congress to say that the secret service wasn't being cooperative. i just don't know if that narrative is 100% accurate, and so i think as a result there is a conflict, if there is going to be a criminal investigation into the

this is a wide ranging federal criminal investigation. they're looking at the events of january 6 and fake electors to try to throw the election from biden to trump. that's no surprise. they're asking questions about trump. of course they are. to pete's point earlier, we think the january 6 committee is moving faster but that's because it's publicly and the justice department doesn't work that way. >> right. >> we worry and wonder if they move at all. of course they are. trump and the people around him within the scope of the investigation. the justice department didn't use this word. that makes them subject. someone within the scope. so you ask questions about the people. nothing about this should be surprising. some of this should be comforting to people thinking the justice department was doing nothing. i was never one of those people. i'm not surprised they have a wide ranging criminal investigation. >> there is a pressure campaign on the attorney general and justice department. at least publicly. this perhaps lets the air out of that

investigation tells nbc that while it's correct the doj is looking into trump's actions, there's no criminal investigation of him specifically. what the post reports is that the doj investigation now appears focused on two tracks, the first a seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct a government proceeding, the second is potential fraud corrected to the effort to submit fake electors. and on that second topic, we've also got some interesting new reporting from "the new york times." the "times" has reviewed dozens of emails sent by trump allies that actually use that term, "fake electors" and one even admitted the plan was simply to send them to pence and hope that someone in congress would use them as a way to dispute the count. so after months of pressure on doj to move the ball, we have this exclusive new interview where nbc "nightly news" anchor lester holt asks attorney general merrick garland specifically about trump. >> the indictment of a former president, of perhaps candidate for president, would arguably tear the country apart. is that your concern as you make your decision down the road h

that there is abundant factual predicate for criminal investigation. today we have reported by the washington post, that apparently, they are doing just that. donald trump is being investigated as part of a criminal investigation, what is your response to that? >> well you know, it's hard to read too much into what the washington post disclosed. it said that witnesses are being asked questions about the president's role. that doesn't necessarily mean the president is under an investigation. you would expect that witnesses would be asked of interactions with anyone involved in the plot to overturn the election. but look, i think the attorney general today was saying all the right things. and i notice a difference at least i perceived a difference between what he had been saying earlier about focusing on all those involved in the attack on january six and now talking more broadly about the overall plot to overturn the election. so i would hope that if the department is truly following the evidence wherever it leads, it will recognize it is leading to dona

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we begin with the criminal investigation into january 6th. the top aide to former vice president mike pence has confirmed he testified before a grand jury investigating the attack on the capitol, a potentially major development. >> i can confirm that i did receive a subpoena for the federal grand jury, and i complied with that subpoena. but under advice of counsel, i can't say much more than that. that was my only appearance before the grand jury. i'm not going to comment on what others had to testify or not and what they testified to. >> he's the highest profile witness known to have testified and signals prosecutors are moving beyond the rioters into looking into the trump administration itself. "the new york times" and "the wall street journal" are reporting that a second aide to pence greg jacob testified as well. he countered efforts to persuade pence not to certify the electoral results. let's start with evan perez. quite significant developments here. >> reporter: absolutely, bianna. this is criminal investigators reaching into the tru

>> well, certainly, it's an indication that they're moving along with a criminal investigation. and i think what it also exposes, wolf, is how many different angles there are to this now. this started as an investigation into wrongdoing on the day at the scene of the capitol, expanded into false electors. now there is this secret service element of it that might involve obstruction of evidence or obstruction of justice. there is a reporting in the "washington post" about the fact that it is becoming a personnel matter because of how vast this is given how many targets and subjects are being investigated. >> nia malika, i'm curious to your reaction of him saying he doesn't remember that conversation. >> you know, it's a convenient answer, right? i don't recall. i think at some point he said if i had the conversation, i don't recall it. and he said this over and over again. he of course is not cooperating with the committee. cassidy hutchinson has said plainly he had concerns and made calls to her about trump coming up there. we know she was a point person for that white house and

what does it say to you we're getting all these new details right now about this federal criminal investigation? >> well, this is really a dramatic change from what we knew for sure just a few days ago. there had been hints that this investigation has been going on for months. but now we know for certain. and this is a very different investigation than the one that brought hundreds of people to be prosecuted for the actual invasion of the capitol. these are crimes, if they are crimes, that took place in the white house, in the oval office. these are investigations of the president and the people immediately around him. that's clearly now going on. whether there will be crimes disclosed, whether there will be indictments is a separate question, but there can't be indictments without an investigation, and we know now there is an investigation. >> laura, according to both "the washington post" and "the new york times," federal prosecutors are asking specific questions about former president trump himself. how significant is that? >> it's very significant. normally we're talking about asking questi

said, you know, we don't know exactly how the justice department has been conducting its criminal investigation so far. grand jury investigations are by definition secret. we, as journalists, try to find out what's going on and we find out some things, but they just happen to see the -- the pence officials coming out of the grand jury yesterday. but we don't know what they have been doing. and now clearly they are investigating the white house, and it is also worth remembering a year and a half, two years to indictment, that's what it took in iran/contra, that's what it took in watergate, these white house scandals take a long time to do a criminal investigation. >> wise words, jeffrey toobin, thanks very much. >>> at any moment former vice president pence will speak to young conservatives in washington. >> let's bring in cnn's kristen holmes. you've been covering this for some time. his remarks come right before president trump's speech, also his return to d.c. at the america first summit. tell us what the two messages are expected to be from the former president and the former vice president.

so, you don't know for sure the criminal cases that you can make. but you investigate all the players. and that takes personnel. so, this is an issue for merrick garland and it may well reach the point where he has to look at the u.s. attorneys -- there are 93 of them across the country -- he can go to his extra large and his large offices and say, i'm going to need you to, say, give me your top public corruption or white collar crime lure to devote to this case, because doj has a lot of witnesses that they have to work through, a lot of areas of investigation to complete -- and they have to do it quickly. it is more important that doj put its resources against this situation than it do other cases that might be done out in the field. i know that that will make me popular with my u.s. attorney colleagues in the biden administration. >> yes. >> but at some point, you've got to set aside doing a large quantity of cases intern in favor of doing a more significant ones. >> yeah. and there is some precedent for that. obviously, merrick garland has some experience, having be

number two, we have the criminal investigation that is occurring simultaneously. we're ask anybody with any video surveillance they may have, please review your cell phones if you were standing in the area of 2nd and central today. that could help investigators. they may see something in there that may be useful and allow them to proceed further with the investigation. any business owners in the area, please review your video surveillance. if you have any video surveillance of the area at that time, even if you don't see anything in there, we would love to take a look at this so we can further our investigation. the fbi is working in con conjunction with us. so it is very active. it's going to remain very active for the time to come. i'll try to answer some questions that i can. but again, please understand we can't give away certain aspects of the investigation. we want to arrest the offender and hold him accountable for his actions. >> was the building sealed where the rifle was recovered? >> i'm not sure of that right now. >> is there any address online or socia

investigation, telling lester that it won't matter even if mr. trump decides to run again for president. >> we will hold accountable anyone who is criminally responsible for attempting to interfere with the transfer, legitimate lawful transfer of power from one administration to the next. >> reporter: at a rally on tuesday in washington, the former president said the investigations are politically motivated to stop him from running again. >> they really want to damage me so i can no longer go back to work for you. and i don't think that's going to happen [ applause ] >> reporter: and in one of the latest steps, investigators are seeking to look at the contents of the cell phone of john eastman, the lawyer who pushed the idea that the vice president could overturn the election results. >> pete, let's drill down a bit here. does this mean the former president is actually under investigation and how soon might we hear about charges, if any? >> reporter: no, it doesn't mean that the justice department has opened a criminal investigation of donald trump it does mean, though, they are looking at his actions as part of the efforts to salvage his election, an

stand by for exclusive new details on this new phase in the criminal investigation. >>> and it's official, the u.s. economy shrinks again. raising fears of a recession. but the white house is pushing back. i'll speak with former treasury secretary larry summers, who sounded an early warning on inflation last year. >>> also tonight, there's growing frustration inside the biden administration right now, as the kremlin refuses to engage with a u.s. offer to exchange brittney griner and paul weelan for a russian arms dealer. i'll speak with a key white house official john kirby. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> let's get right to cnn's exclusive new reporting on the u.s. justice department's criminal probe into january 6th. federal prosecutors preparing to fight in court to force former white house officials to testify about their conversations with then president trump. our senior crime and justice reporter kaitlan po lance helped break the story here in the situation room. this could be the clearest

we also learned greg jacob testified before the grand jury in that criminal investigation. according to the chairman of the january 6th committee, garland's investigators at the doj are focusing on trump lec ele electors. the breadth of that scheme is being laid out. there are newly disclosed emails obtained by "the new york times." this is an email send to trump adviser boris epstein from a phoenix-based lawyer. the phoenix lawyer writes, quote, we would be sending in fact electoral votes to pence so that someone in congress can make an objection when they start counting votes and argue the fake votes should be counted. team trump saying the quiet part out loud, admitting their plot was fake. in a follow up email, the lawyer follows up, pps alternative votes is probably a better term that fake votes, smiley face. now the january 6th committee is showing how wide ranging the plot was involving fake electors from 12 states. even the president was aware of the fact elector scheme. today the former president returning to washington to distract that his plan to cling on to power

they call this an ongoing criminal investigation. this comes as the inspector general has directed the secret service to stop its own internal investigation into what happened to these texts. whitney wild joins us live. how big of a deal is this investigation? it's criminal? >> reporter: this is a big deal. this is certainly complicating matters for the secret service in the short term. because as you know, they have this house select subpoena that directed them to conduct an internal investigation. the inspector general came back to them today to say, in effect, stop what you're doing. here is a quote from that letter, to ensure the integrity of our investigation, the secret service must not engage in any further investigative activities regarding the collection of the evidence that they are discussing earlier in this letter, including immediately refraining from interviewing potential witnesses, collecting devices or taking any other action that would interfere, jake, and this is crucial, with an ongoing criminal investigation. agai

thanks >>> this evening, new calls by members of the january 6th committee for a criminal investigation of donald trump after last night's explosive testimony. here's kristen welker. >> reporter: tonight, january 6th committee members are intensifying pressure on the justice department to investigate former president trump after its high-stakes hearing thursday night. >> i sure as hell hope that merrick garland has an open criminal investigation into donald trump. >> reporter: it all comes amid new revelations at the hearing overnight including these outtakes of taped remarks from january 7th when mr. trump refused to say the election was over. >> but this election is now over. congress has certified the results. i don't want to say the election is over i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, okay >> reporter: and the chilling testimony of an anonymous white house security official who said members of former vice president pence's security detail were afraid for their lives. >> there were calls to say good-bye to family members, so on a

it is not clear whether clark himself is the subject of a criminal investigation. clark, though, did plead the fifth more than 100 times before the january 6th committee. so, there's that. speaking of the january 6th committee, that brings us back to someone else about to sit down with the panel. former white house counsel pat cipollone allegedly threatened to resign in an oval office meeting that took place on january 3, 2021, when donald trump threatened to replace his then-attorney general jeffrey rosen with clark. cipollone's name has surfaced over and over and over again in these hearings. he was a critical member of trump's inner circle. he was present for the most private of conversations. allegedly, many of those conversations disturbed him so much in the weeks leading up to january 6 that he almost walked out numerous times. that's something that trump's son-in-law and former senior adviser jared kushner did not deny when he was asked about it by the committee. but you may recall, he did dismiss cipollone. >> i know that, you know, he was always -- him and

moscow criminal investigation, how did you get here? gardener where it means well, let's go, i'll suit you a place rona tell me, please, how did it happen that the children's red mitten, which according to the documents should be kept with you, turned out to be in the universe you don't understand what you are talking about now? no time to work. you have to come back another time. you fool me. don't turn it on. i'll blow your brains out in no time. i 'm more polite than you, which hurts, hear the garbage on petrovka, you'll be right to swing, and here the bream does not last long into the ground. vasilinka, banged in the morning, if i'm something dig up, then dismissal i get off you sit down. i guarantee it to you, what smells. i’m happy with you, yes, i sold the mitten to vasilenko and asked frankly to find it. well, if you threw the tread from another car into another, they moved it. judging by the wheelbase, it’s some kind of jeep, or rather, i won’t say a little about the interior, i looked at the fingers, there weren’t even any fin

bribery, the embezzlement, according to the investigation , caused damage of at least 56 million rubles . earlier, the former ceo was arrested in the same criminalorshenev foundation and head of procurement department viktor nikitin as the investigators established, the companies with which the fund entered into contracts were supposed to complete the construction of housing complexes scotland and the shcheglovskaya estate, but in fact they did not. these amateur shots were filmed by the equity holders of the ghost house themselves. without repair, damp walls with fungus all around construction materials, now we will see what condition our apartment is waiting for us in, and at this time, the fund employees, who actually should help equity holders , helped themselves according to the data. media at denis chibisov two apartments and two premium cars were seized. and such a problem, alas, in many regions of the country, developers freeze objects and disappear with money, and equity holders for years, sometimes for decades, cannot call into their apartments. and such painful long-term construction was repeatedly told by our colleagues from the inve

criminal investigation, what problems do you know? it ’s vanya kovrov, it seems that he is on the map behind his head, he quickly put his hands behind his head so that i can see who anton is, where did you come from, by chance the bandits didn’t know. well, let's report lately. well, what did we manage to do, we went to the addresses there smelyansky lawyer, but kovrovo was not found anywhere. most likely he went on the run. that is, uh, trying to leave the city, we contacted colleagues from the transport police. i hope they help us, uh, intercept one of the guards. uh, in court, leonov, uh, has a large loan in the bank , it is difficult to return it, so he needs money, therefore, he can be easily bought. do you think it was he who gave the knife to the carpet, well, it is possible. i think he knows where this kovrov is. okay, let's develop. leonova there will be some thoughts, therefore, about it, but i think that kovrov could not pay you salty before escaping, which means that he will try to do this, if we follow leonov now, we will

so, at what stage is the criminal investigation in this case now ? h is currently being considered in the european court of human rights, but the main court to which attention is drawn is an investigation in the netherlands, it takes place in a specially equipped complex with a hip hall near the airport of the same name, the proceedings there have been going on for several years and we expect that this year, closer to the end of the year, the process will come to an end and we will hear the verdict. at the last meetings, the defense spoke, which contested some of the arguments of the prosecutor's office, voiced the motions. that is, these are mostly technical meetings and at the end of autumn or at the beginning of december, we are waiting for the last meeting at which the verdict will be announced. that the actions of the four suspects not only led to the downing of the plane and the death of 20,098 people, but also left deep scars in the souls of those who live. the prosecutor's office asked for life imprisonment for all four accused and added that

look, it is a criminal investigation. it is an investigation potentially into criminal behavior. important for a couple of reason reason, but one is that it really shows how aggressive and potentially important this investigation is. remember of course in florida the former president famously asked top elections official to just find him somewhere shy of 12,000 votes. but they are also pulling this people from out of state and apparently looking at the connection with what was happening this georgia and what was happening in other states. we've talked a lot about what the justice department is going to do if they are going to act, when they will act. this shows that criminal investigation of a sizable breadth is moving ahead regardless of what the u.s. department of justice is doing or its timing. >> to the toxic political climate, we all feel it, hear it, know it, receive our own voice miails about it, but adam kinzinger shared what he has received. let's listen to a little bit. >>> he tweeted out sort of a link to this compilation without the bleeps. we have bleeped it out. but

inquiry is related to the probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election, results and not a criminal investigation of trump himself. and there is a little bit of distinction here between whether somebody is a subject of the investigation or target. i wonder, chuck how much does that distinction matter, how much should we be thinking about that in this context? >> let me start with the definition chris. subject is somebody simply within the scope of the criminal investigation. meaning, that you have not decided yet whether that person is going to be a defendant one day, or maybe just merely a witness. a target is a punitive defendant. somebody likely to be charged. but these categories are not immutable. you can move from one to the other. people often do. and so early in an investigation, you are more likely to have a number of subjects, because you have not resolved their status affiliate. at the end of the investigation, you have your targets who become defendants who often become convicted felons and incarcerated inmates. and so, it is not immutable, it's not surprising that he would be within

those are people whose conduct falls loosely within the parameters of the crime investigating, they may actually be criminally responsible for that, you don't know for certain, that's why you're investigating, and then there are targets. those are people who you have evidence against, and who you intend as prosecutor to bring charges against, so you're looking at all of that as a prosecutor, investigating conduct to determine who's responsible, and who should be charged. >> we'll have to leave it there, former u.s. attorney joyce vance, thank you as always for your time, thank you for explaining all that for us, thanks. >> good to see you. >> new developments tonight in the case of wnba star brittney griner, who's facing ten years in a russian prison, the deal may be the key to bringing them home, that's next. your record label is taking off. but so is your sound engineer. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire and it's easier than ever to get your projects done right. with angi, you can co

it is now apparently a criminal investigation. that's according to two sources familiar with the matter who tell nbc news the department of homeland security's inspector general has launched that criminal probe. let me bring in nbc news investigative correspondent julia ainsley with the latest. you're behind this reporting, along with our colleague pete williams. tell us what you know. >> well, hallie, we are now learning that as of last night the secret service became aware that the investigation into those missing text messages by the dhs inspector general is a criminal probe. when exactly it turned criminal, we're not sure. but the secret service learned about it last night. they received a letter telling them to preserve the communications, of course, and to stop trying to do internal investigations. in other words, they needed to not get in the way of what the dhs ig is calling an ongoing criminal investigation. i have to point out that just because it is a criminal investigation does not necessarily mean that there is, a, ev

right now -- donald trump is the subject of a criminal investigation in georgia.the phone call to georgia also involves possible federal offenses of election interference. so, would i am wondering is, would a full indictment of what this committee has developed -- which included one hearing that was about what happened in georgia -- would possibly include the charges that barry and we're neal talking about, in relation to january 6th, in addition to possible charges involving what donald trump did in the attempt to interfere in georgia? >> the answer is yes. i think every state in which donald trump attempted to interfere represents part of a multi pronged, octopus like plan. it couldn't have had more tentacles. but all of them are relevant. and the whole he's greater than the sum of its parts. when the jury -- virtually any jury -- hears and sees what we have all seen, and even if you win that wow to the evidence that might not a [inaudible] criminal trial, it will really have no alternative but to conclude that donald trump is an ongoing danger to the republic.