a fiction you called it. yeah. look. it s if he has declassified hundreds, maybe thousands of documents that he took to the residence because he worked very hard on this at night as we all know, over four years, the media should be filing freedom of information act requests for all documents declassified by donald trump pursuant to this standing order. i d love to see what gets produced. and we know from seeing the receipt of items taken from mar-a-lago that there was a box labeled as sci, sensitive compartmented information. can you think of any reason a former president would have to have sensitive compartmented information in his residence? no, look, in a normal administration a president is quite likely to write memoirs, he ll want and deserves access to highly classified information, arrangements are made for former presidents and indeed for former cabinet officers who leave under happy circumstances, that scifs are set up that they can go to and look at this c
reports that attorney general merrick garland deliberated for weeks before approving the warrant application. now, garland faces an even more daunting and consequential decision, that is whether to pursue criminal charges against the former president. now that decision is amplified as an fbi organization representative warns that growing calls for violence against law enforcement are, quote, real and imminent. the fbi investigating an unprecedented number of threats to bureau personnel and property in the wake of the court authorized search of mar-a-lago. also this morning, rudy giuliani firing back after prosecutors in georgia tell him that he is a target of the special grand jury there. we ll have more on that in a moment. let s begin this morning, here in washington, cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz tracking all the latest developments. the justice department is making clear just how serious this investigation is. what do we know about where it sta
home. the wall street journal reports the attorney general merrick garland deliberated for weeks over whether to approve that fbi search. separately, sources tell cnn that trump white house lawyer eric herschmann has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating the insurrection. and in a separate investigation, georgia prosecutors have told rudy giuliani he is a target of a criminal probe into election interference. and in yet another investigation, long time trump organization cfo allen weisselberg is expected to plead guilty in a tax evasion case. let s get to it, let s begin with katelyn polantz on the news out of the justice department this morning. so, what are you hearing from the justice department about this request to unseal the affidavit? reporter: the justice department does not want to unearth a lot more detail about what is going on here in that prompted the search of mar-a-lago and what is under criminal investigation here. in a court filing yeste
going to be elected essentially for a primary at least for her fourth term in congress or if she will fall like many of her house ten republicans, the ten republicans who voted for the former president s impeachment. this is a very uphill climb for her. she realizes that. but one thing she is doing in the final days of this campaign is trying to reach out to democrats and independents, urging them to switch over. listen to annette langly who we talked to yesterday about why she is voting for cheney. i had to change my party today to vote for liz cheney because i m really concerned about the misinformation that is going around the country, and i never thought i would vote for cheney, but she has earned my respect over her handling of the hearings over january 6th, and i just i felt she needed she might not win, but she needs as much support as possible for doing what she s doing.
of voters, both republican and democrat. i wonder how they see this race. reporter: well, good morning, jim. there is no doubt that voters here have really been inundated for the last several months in a multimillion dollar ad campaign from both sides. of course, liz cheney, running for her fourth seat her fourth term rather, really is facing an uphill battle with republicans. she knows that. in the final days of this race, she s been reaching out to some democrats and some independent voters through grassroots efforts to try and at least narrow the margins. we have been speaking to so many voters here over the last several days. annette langly is someone we met yesterday in jackson. she said she s voting for cheney for the very first time. i had to change my party today to vote for liz cheney because i m really concerned about the misinformation that is going around the country, and i never thought i would vote for a cheney. but she has earned my respect over her handling of the