CNN on Thursday broadcast bodycam footage from the Fairfax County Police Department of its early-morning search warrant execution at Jeffrey Clark's home.
CNN's Hannah Rabinowitz obtained the video, which shows the Trump DOJ official in his underwear and a dress shirt.
A female officer then informs Clark she is with the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General.
Donald Trump will likely blame his latest jury attacks on the fact that he was merely quoting someone else, but that's not going to hold up before the judge in the former president's criminal case alleging hush money and a transactional cover-up, a legal expert said Wednesday.
Trump earlier in the day posted a purported quote from a Fox News host, Jesse Watters, suggesting the jurors are lying to the judge in order to be placed on the case. Those comments had one former judge saying Trump was "dancing on the line" when it comes to his expanded gag order.
Legal analyst and former prosecutor Renato Mariotti appeared on CNN on Wednesday to give his take on the jury attack.
For Mariotti, he says Trump is likely going to claim that he was merely quoting someone else. But he will have a difficult time making that argument, since the post wasn't shared directly, and was instead typed out, either by Trump or someone else in control of the ex-president's Truth Social account, Mariotti said.
"In other words, you are endorsing or approving the statement adopting the statement of Jesse Watters," he said. "I think that's how the D.A. is going to argue it tomorrow -- the D.A.'s team -- and I think the judge is likely to agree."
How many strikes will New York Judge Juan Merchan permit until he turns the screws on defendant Donald Trump's suspected violation of a gag order?
Ret. Judge Jill Konviser, who served on the benches in both Manhattan and Brooklyn courts, suggested former President Donald Trump has been treated with kid gloves compared to others accused of crimes.
"I think he's given an amazing amount of leeway and in that sense, you know we hear Trump talking about him being treated differently," she said during an appearance on CNN, regarding Merchan's patience and tolerance with Trump after two days of trial. "He's getting a benefit here because the judge is not holding his feet to the fire."
Konviser believes Merchan is trying to be even handed "to move this case forward" and because he "doesn't want any more stops."
She suspects the clock is ever present for Merchan and so he "wants to get it over with."
Prosecutors for District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office are angling to hit Trump with $1,000 sanctions for each of the three gag order violations they say Trump is responsible for.
But Konviser believes Trump has been going too far.
In fact, on Wednesday Trump quoted on Truth Social Fox News anchor Jesse Watters who said: “They are catching undercover Liberal Activists lying to the Judge in order to get on the Trump Jury."
This particular post for Konviser is hard to not see as a violation.
She said that Trump is "dancing on the line crossing the line" to add to his "tango lesson" last week with previous posts.
"So I think the judge would be well within his rights to make that make that call now," she said, noting that Merchan has to be prudent to prevent a mistrial. "But what does it get him at the end of the day, we still want to get through this as quickly as possible."
As a mutiny appears to be building from the right flank to clip House Speaker Mike Johnson from his post, the Louisianan is forging ahead to put a U.S. national security aid package to back war-torn Ukraine and Israel.
One of those Republicans who has been an outspoken critic of Johnson is Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) who appeared on CNN's "The Lead" with Jake Tapper to express his souring on his fellow conservative colleague.
"I would rather us do our job, try to move this stuff forward and work together, — but I will say I'm very disappointed in the speaker," he said. "This is a bridge too far in terms of where we're headed right now in terms of putting Ukraine first rather than America's borders first."
"I am sympathetic and open to having a conversation about Israel and Ukraine but only after you've done your job to secure the border in the United States; and so that's my starting place."
A pink slip drumbeat has been increasing ever since Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) threatened to sack Johnson by filing a
motion to vacate the speaker from office.
The move is reminiscent of the fate that befell former speaker Kevin McCarthy last year.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) joined her in seeking Johnson's removal.
Johnson's response, according to Massie, was to say fat chance.
"He said he would not."
Greene reinforced her determination for a change of guard posting on
Twitter/X: “Speaker Johnson must announce a resignation date and allow Republicans to elect a new Speaker to put America First and pass a Republican agenda.”
“I am not resigning,” Johnson boomed after meeting with fellow House Republicans at the Capitol. “We are simply here trying to do our jobs,” Johnson said, adding that the talk of his demise as speaker were “absurd ... not helpful.”
Roy wishes the speaker could return to his original stance of protecting America's borders first.
"I would love to do what we need to support Israel again... but in this $95 billion package there's $9 billion and humanitarian aid... which if you go look at it goes to fund Hamas," he told Tapper. "So if we funding Israel, I support it, but we're also funding Israel's enemies and funding has this is the kind of duplicitous crap the American people are tired of."
"So I'd like to go back to the drawing board, pass Israel stand-alone and not have this package that has that funding and it did that i think is nefarious and focus on the border first."