from mar-a-lago in january including 25 marked top secret, one particularly disturbing revelation markings on some documents to indicate the material is related to human sources or spies. cnn s natasha bertrand joins us now. what more are we learning about what the intelligence community is planning to do here in terms of this damage assessment? they are taking this very seriously. yeah, jim, so we just learned this afternoon that the director of national intelligence avril haines, she has written letters to the house oversight, house intelligence, and we just learned senate intelligence committees telling them that she along with the justice department, they are conducting a classification review, certsesh essentially to see whether these documents are prosecuting attorneyly properly classified and importantly she is going to launch a review of the risk that these documents pose to the national security of the united states, the fact that they were missing, that they wer
first line. politics cannot be allowed to impact the administration of justice. so we ll focus on the filing ahead and the chances that a judge will agree with any or all of it given how late in the process it is. we ll also examine how the various assertions of fact in the filing actually stand up to the facts themselves. also tonight, a cnn exclusive. late word that the justice department has issued a new subpoena for more january 6th-related documents. cnn s kaitlan collins starts us off. what is the former president and his legal team seeking in this filing? reporter: a few things. one is this third party attorney, which is known better as a special master, that can really go through these documents if they re appointed, see what has legal privilege, what doesn t. it takes up time though, so it s a little unusual they waited two weeks to file for this because there s a chance the justice department has already gone through this, the investigators looking at it, becaus
it strikes and claims it makes neither of which are typical of the category. quoting now from the introductions first line, politics cannot be allowed to impact the use of justice. so, we ll focus on the filing ahead in the chances that a judge will agree with any or all of it given how early in the process it is. as well so examine how the various a surgeons are in fact in the filing, actually stand up to the facts themselves. also tonight, cnn exclusive that the justice department is issued a new subpoena for more january six related documents. katie collins starts us. off what is the president seeking and with this? one, is a third party attorney which is known better as a special master. it can go through these documents if they re appointed. see what has regal privilege, what doesn t. it takes up time though. it s a little unusual that they waited two weeks to file for this. there s a chance for the justice department has already gone through this, the investigators ar
americans to leave the ukraine immediately as they prepare for possibility of ugly and vicious attacks from russia. a new in-depth study among covid and how it impacts the brain. we start with exclusive cnn reporting tied to the january six investigation. we ve learned that the justice department has issued a subpoena to get more documents related to the capital h. according to sources this is in addition to the national archives request earlier this year. suggesting they are ramping up their investigation into the potential role that the former president and his staff have played in the events leading up to the insurrection. the national archive has until the end of this month to hand over the documents. new york times reports more than 150 since the documents were recovered at his estate by the national archives last january. when fbi agents returned earlier this month with the search warrant they found another stack of highly classified materials as well all told the
joining us now are former special counsel to the general counsel department of defense ryan goodman and rebecca roissy. thank you both for being here on what we said was definitely no shortage of news this morning. i wonder what s your reaction to this first filing that we got from trump s legal team today. it took two weeks for them to get there. and they are now asking for this third party attorney. but i think, we re wondering, if it s too late? it does seem too late. it s two weeks after the search began. so you d actually think it should be filed hours after the search began. and it s a reasonable request in some sense to ask for something like this from a third party. why is it reasonable? it s reasonable, because we might think we don t necessarily trust the way the fbi would conduct it. we want an objective third party institution to view things to sort out what they should have versus what they shouldn t. but the content is as quite bizarre. what they re saying