school. we should look forward to a very different school year. we should look forward to a school year where every child is in school, in person, full-time, for the whole year. the changes the cdc hopes will keep kids in the classroom. dire warnings from scientists who say the arctic is warming at alarming speeds. we re joined by one researcher who is seeing the changes firsthand. and the disturbing new testimony in vanessa bryant s case against l.a. county, allegations that gruesome photographs were shared at a social gathering. newsroom starts right now. good morning and welcome to your weekend. it is saturday, august 13th. we re grateful to be a part of it. i m boris sanchez. grateful to be with you as well, boris. i m amara walker. you re in the cnn newsroom. this morning, growing t controversy about the fbi raid at former president donald trump s residence. some material was marked as top secret/sci which stands for sensitive compartmented information.
hello again, everyone, thank you so much for joining me. i m fredericka whitfield. this just in to cnn, sources confirm a lawyer for former president trump signed a letter in june asserting there was no more classified information stored at his mar-a-lago resort in florida. but when the fbi executed a search warrant on monday, agents recovered 11 sets of classified documents with at least one marked as top secret/sci which is one of the highest levels of classifications. the newly unsealed court documents outline three potential crimes that are being investigated. so far, the doj has not filed any charges. plus new today, the department of homeland security and the fbi say they are investigating violent threats made against federal law enforcement, courts, government personnel, and facilities in the wake of the fbi search warrant. the fbi says the number of threats against the bureau are, i m quoting now, unprecedented. cnn s katelyn polantz is here with more details on the s
of government records. as of now, we should note no one has been charged with a crime. trump s first line of defense was to baselessly suggest the fbi may have planted evidence while in his home. plan b, trump had declassified documents before the fbi seized them. so they re both declassified and planted. does that make any sense? the espionage act does not hinge on whether documents are classified. the trump team s latest move is to blame a government agency for moving boxes of classified information to mar-a-lago claiming, quote, that s not on the president. now, new this afternoon, the democratic chairs of both the house intelligence and oversight committees have written a letter to the director of national intelligence saying they want a damage assessment and briefing regarding these documents recovered from mar-a-lago, whether they posed some sort of national security risk to the country. joining me to talk about this is the former director of national intelligence, jame
Eastern time here on cnn. This week its about movies from the 70s, and starting monday live nonstop coverage of the big democratic debates. We will see you back here this time next week. Taking the stage, with the cnn democratic president ial debates only days away, which candidates will convince voters theyre the partys future . I think weve got a Straight Path to victory in this country. Ill speak exclusively with president ial candidate senator Bernie Sanders next. And impeachment escalation, House Democrats take a major step towards possible impeachment. We must make the strongest possible case both to our colleagues and the american public. Are democrats inching closer to an Impeachment Vote . Ill speak with the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, congressman jerry nadler next. Plus battleground divide,
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and gianna bryant. we previously heard from a whistleblower who saw a deputy sharing these grizzly photos at a bar but on friday we heard whistleblower luella explain how a los angeles county firefighter was showing photos of human rights from the crash at an awards gala. he happens to be the cousin of one of the victims in the crash so she was particularly emotional in recounting how the group of people were huddled around a phone looking at the alleged gruesome photos. she said one of the firefighters eventually walked away from the huddle jokingly saying i can t believe i just looked at kobe s burnt up body and now i m about to heat. vanessa bryant was visibly emotional. i saw her with her head in her hands, rocking slightly forward and back trying to hide her face as she cried. she was not in the room at all for afternoon testimony of doug johnson, one of the first sheriffs deputies to have climbed the treacherous hillside to reach the crash scene. he says he took about 25 site pho