On several fronts today, the Department of Justice pressed forward on President Trump's top legal and political priorities.

That includes relitigating the 2020 election by investigating voting records in Georgia and legally targeting lawmakers and groups seen as hostile to the president's agenda.

Our justice correspondent, Ali Rogan, joins me now with the latest.

Allie's good to see you. Thanks for having me. So let's start now with the news from Fulton County, Georgia.

All of this stems from an FBI raid of election records back in January. What do we need to know?

That's right. Omna. President Trump has long had grievances against the state of Georgia,

which he wrongly insists that he won. Earlier this

year, the FBI raided the offices of Fulton County to seize more than 600 boxes of election

records from 2020. They say they want to investigate irregularities. Fulton County then sued to get those voting records back.

But yesterday, a judge ruled that the FBI can keep the records and continue this investigation.

This is a big boon for the administration's efforts to relitigate the 2020 election.

Okay.

Moving on to a federal appeals court today that heard arguments over whether Defense Secretary

Pete Heggseth can punish Democratic Senator Mark Kelly over his past comments that were critical

of the administration.

Prior courts have sided with Kelly.

Did the judges seem to do so today?

They did.

And of course this is yet another front in the administration's efforts to extract retribution

against the president's adversaries.

This one is led by Secretary Heggseth.

He tried to demote Senator Mark Kelly, who is a retired Navy captain, after Kelly appeared

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