Erin Burnett OutFront

Poll workers were urged to break the rules by Republican leaders in Michigan. Plus, the DOJ’s huge decision: will they fight the ruling in favor of a special master in the Trump Mar-a-Lago case? Ty Cobb, former White House attorney under Trump, joins. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A judge removed a January 6th participant from his elected position because of his actions that day in a law that hasn’t been used in over 100 years. Could other lawmakers be next? Plus, Trump's former attorney general slams the federal judge who sided with Trump and his request for a special master. Then, we examine views female voters' views surrounding abortion rights. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump scores a legal victory after a federal judge accepted his request for a special master to review evidence seized by the FBI during the search at Mar-a-Lago. Plus, President Biden is on the campaign trail, rallying for Democrats in the upcoming midterms. Also, one of the suspects in the deadly stabbing spree in Canada has been found dead. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New details on what the FBI recovered from Mar-a-Lago last month including dozens of empty folders marked as classified. Plus, two former Trump White House lawyers meet with a grand jury to investigate Trump’s efforts to overturn the election. Plus, a look at Idaho locals pushing back on a library book ban. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former President Trump’s defense team compares classified material at Mar-a-Lago to overdue library books as Trump and the Justice Department square off over Trump’s request for a special master. Plus, President Biden is about to deliver a rare primetime address about the attack on democracy. Also, Trump is considering full pardons for the January 6th insurrectionists if he wins the 2024 presidency. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We break down the stunning photograph of classified material seized from Tump’s home. We also speak with an expert on the Mar-a-Lago property about where those documents were found. Plus, tens of thousands of migrants are allowed in the United States because of a little known exception the government has been making. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Biden takes on Trump by slamming Trump and his supporters for attacking the FBI. This as we’re waiting for new documents from the Justice Department to drop at any moment. Plus, one of the most significant political leaders of the 20th century, Mikhail Gorbachev, is dead at 91. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The DOJ is taking aim at Trump’s argument for a special master and as they sort through the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago. Also, we’re learning the intelligence community has been working with the FBI on the documents since May. Plus, a rioter who came within seconds of Senator Schumer on January 6th was sentenced to prison today. This as Senator Graham predicts there will be “riots in the streets” if Trump is indicted. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Justice Department released the document that paved the way for the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago. Plus, more security concerns at Mar-a-Lago as a Russian-speaking woman who reportedly posed as a banking heiress got into the resort and next to President Trump. The reporter who broke the story is our guest. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal judge ordered the release of a redacted affidavit used to justify the FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. Plus, we’re standing by to hear from the president live in his most significant political speech of the midterms as Democrats gain momentum in key states. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Washington Post reports that the National Archives pleaded with Trump for documents as early as May of 2021. We examine what convinced Trump to hand over some of the documents he took to Mar-a-Lago. Plus, Republicans say it gives away too much while some Democrats says it doesn’t do enough. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona joins to discuss President Biden’s student loan debt announcement. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal judge responds to Trump’s lawsuit giving the former president a deadline to better explain why he wants an independent review of documents taken from Mar-a-Lago. Plus, thousands of migrants from the southern border are showing up by the busloads in Washington D.C. and New York City. Also, it’s Election Day in America as two political heavyweights in New York turn personal and nasty. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Department of Justice issues a new subpoena for documents from the National Archives related to January 6th as former President Trump takes his first formal legal action after FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago home. Plus, witnesses say the Parkland High School shooter’s mother was a prostitute and addicted to drugs when she was pregnant. But, will it be enough to sway the jurors at the sentencing trial? To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN is learning there is deep concern within the White House over the classified material that Trump took to Mar-a-Lago. Could the documents put American national security at risk? What about the material on French President Emmanuel Macron seized by FBI agents? Plus, Rep. Zoe Lofgren of the January 6th committee joins to discuss Mike Pence’s potential testimony. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A federal judge in Florida today released new documents related to the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago, sharpening the focus on former President Donald Trump as a possible subject of the DOJ's criminal probe. Plus, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp is requesting to throw out a subpoena in a criminal investigation looking into Trump's attempts to overturn Georgia's 2020 presidential election. Georgia Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Stacey Abrams joins to discuss. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CNN has learned that some Trump allies are urging the former President to publicly release surveillance footage of FBI agents searching his Mar-a-Lago residence. The footage has been so closely held that a source close to the former President told CNN they're not sure if Trump has seen it in full himself. And, CNN has learned that former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg is expected to plead guilty tomorrow to a 15-year tax fraud scheme. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The FBI interviews Trump’s White House attorneys, the two most senior people interviewed into the criminal probe into Trump's handling of documents. Plus, another Trump-related criminal investigation in Georgia is heating up. Then, a special report about Trump allies like Steve Bannon spreading dangerous rhetoric. Also, it is election night in the Wyoming GOP primary as Rep. Liz Cheney hopes to keep her seat. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Justice Department reveals new details about its investigation into Trump as we learn that Merrick Garland reportedly deliberated for weeks over approving that search warrant. Also, a Trump White House lawyer subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury. Plus, Rudy Giuliani is now a confirmed target of an investigation in Georgia regarding the election. Will he turn on the bigger target, Trump? To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We now know the FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home for possible violations of the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice. Trump’s team now blames the government for moving boxes of documents to Mar-a-Lago. Plus, we’ll walk you through the exact rooms the FBI searched and why. Also, there’s been an unprecedented number of threats against the FBI in the wake of the search. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump is now considering challenging the Justice Department’s motion to unseal the warrant used in the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago after Merrick Garland asked the judge to make the warrant public. Plus, details about a suspect armed with an AR-15 style rifle and nail gun who tried to break into an FBI field office today. Investigators are now looking into whether the suspect had ties to right wing extremism. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Wall Street Journal reporting an informant tipped off investigators about more classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. Plus, former President Trump pleads the fifth after being deposed, something he said you only do if you are guilty. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We examine why officials became suspicious of Trump and his associates months ago and why Trump’s aides thought the FBI’s investigation into his handling of classified information had stalled until FBI agents literally showed up at the door. Plus, Ty Cobb, Trump’s attorney during the Mueller investigation, joins to answer why he thinks a Trump indictment is coming. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On Monday, the FBI executed a search warrant at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. People familiar with the situation say the warrant was part of an investigation into the handling of presidential documents, including classified documents. Plus, CNN has learned that Alex Jones' text messages have been turned over to the January 6th select committee. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

China warns the United States of a potential war as it carries out new military exercises dangerously close to Taiwan. Plus, Biden’s agenda gets a big boost as his budget packages are currently on track to pass. Also, Alex Jones was just ordered to pay $45 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sources say Trump’s legal team is talking with key Justice Department officials about the criminal probe into January 6th. Plus, a jury has ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay over $4 million to the parents of a 6-year-old killed in the Sandy Hook massacre after Jones claimed the massacre was a hoax. Also, WNBA star Brittney Griner has been sentenced to 9 years in a Russian penal colony. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The final votes in Arizona’s key primary are being counted right now where one election denier is casting doubt on the results despite being in the lead. Plus, more fallout after January 6th text messages were erased from Secret Service phones. We discuss what action the agency is considering taking. Also, CNN is learning that Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. sat for depositions as part of New York’s investigation into the Trump organization. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chinese fighter jets and warships circle Taiwan as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits the island. Plus, new images and details of Ayman al-Zawahiri’s hideout, the al Qaeda leader who was recently killed by a U.S. drone strike. Then, it is election night in America as voters cast their ballots in five key states. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Biden delivers a rare prime time address to announce that the U.S. has successfully targeted and killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Afghanistan. Zawahiri was one of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists and was involved in the planning of 9/11 terror attacks. Also, the Biden administration is warning Beijing that China better not respond if House Speaker Pelosi makes a trip to Taiwan. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The White House responds here on OutFront tonight to CNN’s exclusive reporting that Putin wants to add a convicted killer to the prisoner swap in exchange for two Americans. Plus, missing texts from the Secret Service and top Homeland Security officials. CNN is learning the Department of Homeland Security inspector general knew of those missing texts months earlier than previously known. In fact, for more than a year. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Federal prosecutors are preparing for battle, trying to force former White House officials to testify about conversations with Trump himself which is the clearest sign yet that investigators are zeroing in on the former President. Plus, President Biden with a major win today and on the cusp of two others. Then, massive flooding in Kentucky with entire towns now under water. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson is cooperating with the Justice Department as we learn that more Trump insiders have been contacted by federal investigators. Plus, emails show the lavish lifestyle of Hunter Biden along with massive debt and tax problems. Then, the Biden administration is willing to carry out a prisoner swap with Russia in exchange for the release of Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump’s former acting defense secretary directly contradicting a claim from Trump about National Guard troops ahead of January 6th. Member of the January 6th select committee Rep. Jamie Raskin joins to discuss updates in the investigation. Plus, a new CNN poll found 75% of Democrats do not want Biden to be the democratic nomination. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pence’s former chief of staff testifies. Marc Short, who now is believed to be the highest ranking official from Trump’s White House to cooperate with the federal investigation into January 6th, joins Erin to discuss the investigation. Plus, air raid sirens ring out in Taiwan as China threatens the United States. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Steve Bannon is now looking at jail time after being found guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the January 6th select committee. Plus, the January 6th select committee says it has done its job and that it is up to Attorney General Merrick Garland to charge Trump. But, will he? To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Attorney General Merrick Garland makes his strongest comments yet about whether he’ll charge Donald Trump as we get new details about tomorrow’s January 6th select committee hearing. Then, an exclusive look at Russia’s filtration process. Ukrainians rounded up and filtered before being bussed to camps. Plus, due to this heatwave, Greenland is facing 6 billion tons of water from melting ice everyday. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Prosecutors in the trial of Steve Bannon say the Trump insider defied Congress by blowing off his subpoena. Plus, Georgia prosecutors tell 16 fake Trump electors that they are targets in a criminal probe. What does that mean for Trump himself? Brittney Griner’s former coach joins to speak out against the U.S.’s handling of her Russian detention case. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Steve Bannon threatens to go “medieval” as his trial for contempt of Congress begins. What is his end game and will he ever appear before the January 6th select committee? Plus, parents of the victims in the Uvalde school shooting demand accountability at a school board meeting after new body camera video. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Georgia official warned he could be indicted as apart of an investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the election. Former Trump attorney Ty Cobb says 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 fights back after her state’s attorney general lobbed baseless accusations that she broke the law. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A source tells CNN a Washington police officer has corroborated details of the heated exchange Trump had with his Secret Service detail when he was told he could not go to the U.S. Capitol. Then, Erin is joined by a federal judged appointed by George W. Bush who is now standing up to Trump, debunking his election lies point by point. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New details about the Justice Department's investigation into former President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the election. Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the January 6 committee, tells CNN his committee is providing the DOJ with witness transcripts related to the effort to put up fraudulent electors from battleground states that Trump lost. And, Vincent Salazar, the father of Layla Salazar who was one of the children killed in the Uvalde school shooting, on his reaction to the released school surveillance video of law enforcement's response. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New evidence shows that Trump planned well in advance for his supporters to march to the Capitol. This as allegations surface of Trump calling a witness to potentially influence their testimony. Plus, a new video just released from the Uvalde, Texas elementary school shows police waiting in the hallway while gunshots are heard in the background. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Steve Bannon now says he will testify before the January 6th select committee. This as the committee says they will reveal ties between Trump allies and the extremists who stormed the Capitol. Plus, a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals the deepest view of the universe ever captured. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New details about Pat Cipollone’s testimony before the January 6th select committee today. One committee member said nearly 8 hours behind the closed doors with Cipollone provided significant new information. This comes as the FBI director issues a new warning in an exclusive interview with CNN tonight. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New body cam video emerges of a raid on a Trump ally as part of the DOJ’s investigation into Trump’s attempts to overturn the election. Then, the father of the 4th of July shooter defends his son’s purchase of guns as well as his role in helping his son get those firearms. The top prosecutor on the case joins us. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New surveillance video emerges of people fleeing gunfire at the deadly Independence Day parade. The shooter confesses today saying he was contemplating firing on another city, too. Plus, a tipster blows the whistle on people planning another mass shooting in Virginia. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The suspect in the July 4th parade shooting spree has been charged with seven counts of first degree murder with more charges coming. Also, a grand jury in Georgia subpoenas Trump insiders Lindsey Graham, Rudy Giuliani, and John Eastman. How much legal trouble are they in and will this investigation lead directly to Trump? To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two Secret Service staffers corroborate parts of Cassidy Hutchinson’s damning testimony about Trump’s January 6th outburst. Plus, WNBA star Brittney Griner appears in a Russian courtroom as prosecutors lay out their case against her. Then, Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney faces off against her Trump-backed challenger in Wyoming. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sources tell CNN that Trump’s allies tried to influence the explosive testimony from the January 6th select committee’s star witness Cassidy Hutchinson. Plus, President Biden tears into the Supreme Court, now urging Congress to change its rules over the abortion decision. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A major move by the January 6th select committee after the panel subpoenas Trump’s former top attorney, Pat Cipollone, who was with Trump in the White House in the days leading up to and on January 6th. Plus, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson speaks with Erin about the abortion ban in Arkansas now that Roe has been overturned. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices