been forced to camp out on city streets joining me now, sam brock, live from el paso, texas, and phil ruckerical analysts what are you seeing at this hour, sam? >> reporter: the images, chris, that you showed were from overnight and it's family getting stuck in the middle. we are outside of a church here in el paso it's the church right now, chris, handing out hot coffee and protein and they are so grateful to receive that i was speaking with a mother who has five kids under the age of eight, and instead of a school or daycare, they are all in the flu and living with that on the streets right now. this is the supreme court, expected to weigh in one way or the other today. on what could be decision day for title 42, there are signs of distress all over the streets in el paso and thousands camping out. it's clear not just from their faces or blankets or scars, and it's the battle scars. caesar said the mexican cartel was trying to extort him for money as he was waiting to cross over he says an opportunity to come to america legally on december 21st would happen, and on that date the expiration

phil rucker, these are for me like a strobe light. i can't figure out where to look.l of new pieces not just of color but of really damning evidence of the way some of those people closest to trump testified and the depths of commitment really to the coup plot itself. >> i think that's right. and what's been striking looking at these transcripts is just the breadth of the work of this committee. they didn't just -- >> yeah. >> -- get to a couple front people here and there, but they were talking to people from the inner sanctum of trump world, and to read the transcripts you see how they think, you see how they're processing information, how this dialogue is taking shape. it's like the kind of material that those of us who cover the current presidency would have only dreamed of having in real time in those real moments and now for the benefit of history we can really piece together in as thorough a way as possible what was happening on the 6th and the run-up to the 6th and as best as we can what was going on in the former president's mind. >> yeah. i mean, they get us

joining me now, phil rucker, suzann craig of the "new york times," and andrew weissmann, former fbi generaldrew, what the d.a. said about it's an ongoing investigation in answer to why isn't donald trump himself a target, what do you infer from that? >> well, for many months, when d.a. bragg said that, particularly after the two top prosecutors on the trump investigation left the office shortly after the d.a. started, when he said the investigation was ongoing, i think a lot of people, including myself, somewhat skovscoffed at that an thought, technically it's true, but does it mean anything? i think with this verdict, with the bringing on of the senior doj and new york attorney general prosecutor, i think that there are more people looking at the manhattan district attorney's office saying that this chapter may not be over, that there still may be more to come. particularly, i would be focusing on what might happen to the cfo who you referred to. because he is about to get sentenced. it will be really interesting to see whether additional charges are brought against him to really have him

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joining us now "washington post" phil rucker, david jolly and ki atkins.s on donald trump and his ego. has trump lost altitude since announcing his campaign with all of the problems that he's experienced on the legal and personal front in just the last month. >> i think so. we can't ever predict what's going to happen in the game of politics with donald trump. he certainly has a strong well of support out in the country and with republican voters. what we have seen in the months since he announced his presidential campaign, he's not really done anything to expand his political appeal and has been on the defensive with the series of investigations, not only the justice department's appointment of a special counsel to investigate the classified documents mishandling at mar-a-lago and the fake elector scheme, but we're seeing the house committee's work this week. in recommending the criminal indictments for the former president. and now this new material coming out in the transcripts. we have also seen the house vote to make public the years of tax returns he