as we first reported last night, an extraordinary escalation of the investigation into former president trump s handling of certain documents from his presidency. tonight, we re following the major political and legal implications of this truly fast moving story. cnn s senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz is here with us in the situation room. she s got the latest on the search of the resort in florida. wolf, republicans are attacking the justice department and fbi today. but this is a serious federal criminal investigation. everything we know about it so far really does appear to be by the book. the justice department is following protocols including keeps things secret at this time. what we know about what played out on monday is that it wasn t the sort of thing that you would call a raid, where fbi agents go in guns blazing, knocking on doors, yelling. instead, it was agents going to mar-a-lago and working, beginning in the a.m. with lots of people looki
and then often there is silence as the prisoners disappear in russia s gray zone of expendable contractors. now we have information that they want to recruit about 2,000, 3,000 of prisoners and for example, if they will die in this war, they pay they will pay 5 million rubles for the family of this prisoner. there is no really contract. there is no really currency to protect the rights or the health or their lives. reporter: sometimes the offer comes with fanfare. this helicopter flying recruiters to one prison to the set. these are convicts, yes, but they still face agonizing choices. weighing a shot at freedom against a violent death. one prisoner explained his decision to his brother in these