New: The US military did not use bunker-buster bombs on one of Iran’s largest nuclear facilities last weekend because the site is so deep that the munitions likely would not have been effective, the US’ top general told lawmakers. w/@NatashaBertrand

cnn.com/2025/06/27/pol… The comment by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine, which was described by three people who heard his remarks and a fourth who was briefed on them, is the first known explanation given for why the US military did not use the MOP against the Isfahan site.

US officials believe a significant quantity of Iran’s already-enriched uranium was stored at Isfahan deep underground.

Officials from Delaware County, Pennsylvania are pushing back on claims from the Trump campaign & the RNC that ‘voter suppression’ occurred after an incident Monday at a local polling site -- saying a woman was removed because she was “disruptive, belligerent, and attempting to influence voters waiting in line.” According to a statement from a county spokesperson a woman was arrested & removed from the building after she, “according to multiple eyewitnesses, was disruptive, belligerent, and attempting to influence voters waiting in line.”

“Her behavior prompted several complaints from those in line. Delaware County Park Police—who provide security for the Government Center Building—were on-site and responded promptly to the disturbance,” the statement continued.

New: Under oath in a court deposition earlier this year, Michael Flynn for the first time on record acknowledged there was no evidence to support a key part of some election fraud claims.

We have the video.

w/ @Tierney_Megan & @emsteck cnn.com/2024/10/24/pol… MORE: CNN also obtained a November 2020 email chain that Flynn forwarded to a member of Trump’s National Security Council.

The email, which Flynn did not write, calls for the immediate arrest of a then-Dominion exec based on same baseless claim about 2020 election: cnn.com/2024/10/24/pol…

News: The US government has concluded the Iranian government is behind the hack & leak operation targeting Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, & also attempted to target Biden-Harris campaign, the FBI & other US intel agencies said Monday. 

More tk w/ @evanperez & @snlyngaas The FBI in recent days briefed Trump on their preliminary findings, after news organizations reported receiving docs believed to have come from an account belonging to a senior Trump campaign official. VP Harris’s campaign has said the hackers were unsuccessful in their attempts.

Fmr Trump 2020 campaign official Mike Roman has been subpoenaed by officials in Arizona as part of ongoing criminal investigation focused on efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s election win, 2 sources tell me, confirming @OliviaRubinABC.

Roman is 1 of Trump's co-defendants in GA. Sources tell CNN a charging decision is expected soon in Arizona's criminal probe.

CNN previously reported Arizona prosecutors have issued several grand jury subpoenas in recent weeks to people connected to efforts by Trump & allies to overturn 2020 election results there.

New: Fulton County DA Fani Willis & her top prosecutor received an onslaught of harassing phone calls over the weekend after their personal contact information was cited in legal paperwork from Trump’s defense lawyer in GA case, sources tell me, @CNNValencia & @JMOCNN.

(1/3) Willis & Nathan Wade both changed their phone numbers b/c of an “explosion” of calls in recent days, one source told CNN.

The wave of calls came after an unredacted version of the motion -- including exhibits -- was shared w/ counsel on both sides.

New: Nathan Wade, top prosecutor in GA election subversion case, is trying to block his former law partner from providing additional testimony behind closed doors to judge who will decide whether to disqualify Fulton County DA Fani Willis, per new motion filed today.

In the motion, Wade objected to in-camera examination of Terrence Bradley, his fmr partner who also represented him in his divorce case, arguing it could disclose communications protected under attorney-client privilege.

Bradley had been billed as defense’s “star witness.”

Lawyer for Misty Hampton, former Coffee County election official charged along with Trump for trying to overturn 2020 election results in GA, appears to confirm his client has rejected plea offers from DA’s office saying she has not received a deal she is “willing to facilitate.” This amid news that more than 15,000 emails & documents connected to Hampton were discovered this month by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation – after attorneys for the rural county’s board of elections claimed the information had been lost.

News: Sixteen fake electors who signed certificates falsely claiming President Donald Trump won Michigan in the 2020 election have been charged with crimes, the state's Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Tuesday. Each of the 16 fake electors are facing 8 charges, including multiple felonies, per Michigan AG Dana Nessel.

More w/ @MarshallCohen, @HBRabinowitz & @SchneiderCNN

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NEWS: Special counsel John Durham concluded that the FBI should never have launched a full investigation into connections between Trump's campaign & Russia during 2016 election, per a report compiled over 3 years & released Monday.

me w/ the team

cnn.com/2023/05/15/pol… Durham's findings are at odds with a previous DOJ inspector general investigation, which identified problems with the FBI's Russia probe but concluded in December 2019 there was sufficient justification to open the inquiry.

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Scoop: Trump's former national security adviser Robert O’Brien has been subpoenaed by special counsel Jack Smith in both the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation & probe related to efforts to overturn 2020 election, source tells me.

He previously testified before 1/6 committee. O’Brien has been asserting executive privilege in declining to provide some info prosecutors are seeking from him, the source said.

Trump's former acting DHS chief Chad Wolf was interviewed by DOJ lawyers in recent weeks as part of special counsel probe, 2 sources also confirm.

DOJ tells top lawmakers on Senate Intel Committee (Warner & Rubio) it is "actively working" with ODNI to enable sharing of info about Trump/Biden classified docs "without harming the ongoing Special Counsel investigations," per letter obtained by CNN. DOJ letter responds to Senate Intel Committee's August request for info "about the potential risk to national security" posed by documents recovered from Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence & follow-up inquiries re classified material found Biden properties.

Authorities say former FBI special agent in charge agreed to provide services to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, including investigating rival Russian oligarch in return for concealed payments.

Deripaska's name emerged in Mueller probe due to longstanding ties to Paul Manafort.

https://twitter.com/DOJNatSec/status/1617564201987317760

"McGonigal & Shestakov were aware that their actions violated US sanctions because, among other reasons, while serving as SAC, McGonigal received then-classified information that Deripaska would be added to a list of oligarchs considered for sanctions ..."
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NEWS: 1/6 committee member @RepRaskin is now outlining criminal referrals for former President Donald Trump. “Ours is not a system of justice where foot soldiers go to jail and the masterminds and ringleaders get a free pass,” Raskin says.

"The evidence clearly suggests that President Trump conspired with others to submit slates of fake electors to Congress and the National Archives."

News: Trump's WH Chief of Staff -- Mark Meadows -- was texting Phil Waldron in late December 2020 about his attempts to gain access to voting systems in key battleground states, starting w/ Arizona & Georgia, per messages obtained by CNN.

cnn.com/2022/09/26/pol… Waldron was involved in drafting executive orders that, if signed by Trump, would've ordered military or DHS to seize voting machines.

He also circulated "Options for 6 Jan" PowerPoint, which outlined various plans for overturning the 2020 election.

cnn.com/2022/09/26/pol…

News: The Jan. 6 Committee has come to an agreement with Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to be interviewed in the coming weeks, a source close to the panel tells @jamiegangel. Statement from Ginni Thomas' attorney, via @Arianedevogue.

NEW: A GOP county official in Georgia & operatives working w/ Trump attorney Sidney Powell spent hours inside restricted area of local elections office on day voting systems there were breached, per surveillance video obtained by CNN.

Latest w/ @JMOCNN cnn.com/2022/09/20/pol… Video reveals for first time what happened inside Coffee County, GA elections office on Jan. 7, 2021.

Among those seen: Cathy Latham, who is under criminal investigation for posing as a fake Trump elector.

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News: House Oversight asks National Archives to “seek a personal certification" from Trump that he surrendered all presidential records "illegally removed" from White House, per @RepMaloney letter.

NARA recently told panel it's not certain if all records are in its possession. "I also ask that the agency conduct an urgent review of presidential records recovered from the Trump White House to assess whether presidential records remain unaccounted for & potentially in the possession of the former president," the new letter says.

cnn.com/2022/09/13/pol…

New: Jan. 6 committee members plan to meet on Tuesday -- one of the most pressing questions they'll address is whether to formally request Trump & Pence appear before them.

Latest from me, @AnnieGrayerCNN, @jamiegangel, @GloriaBorger & @SaraMurray
cnn.com/2022/09/12/pol… The 1/6 Committee does NOT expect Trump or Pence to testify, sources tell us.

But some members & staff believe the invitations should be extended for the record.
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News: A GOP county official in Georgia, who served as a fake elector, escorted 2 operatives working wi/ Trump lawyer Sidney Powell into the county's election offices on same day voting system there was breached, per newly obtained video.

Story w/ @JMOCNN
cnn.com/2022/09/06/pol… This little-noticed court filing by Phil Waldron is an interesting data point as it includes a new argument for why he shouldn't have to handover cellphone data to 1/6 Committee: cnn.com/2022/09/06/pol…

Because the committee could give that cellphone data to the feds.

News: Jan. 6 committee is requesting info from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Story soon w/ @AnnieGrayerCNN & @SaraMurray.

Here is one excerpt from the committee's letter to Gingrich: 1/6 Committee also cites another email from Dec. 8, 2020 from Gingrich to Kushner & Miller that says:

"The goal is to arouse the country’s anger through new verifiable information the American people have never seen before[.] . . ."