declared brain dead. she led a life of public highs and lows, but through it all she thrived on screen and strived to stay hopeful. he s currently breathing with the help of a ventilator. the question is looming over investigators right now as to what drove this 24-year-old suspect that s been identified as matar from new jersey to charge that stage. i m alex marquardt in washington in for pamela brown this evening. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with the nation s top intelligence official, the director of national intelligence being asked for a damage assessment on classified documents that were removed from former president donald trump s palm beach resort, mar-a-lago. the democratic chairs of the house intelligence and oversight committees wrote together in a letter that quote, the former president s conduct has potentially put our national security at grave risk, and they want an appropriate classified briefing on the conduct of the damage ass
under executive privilege. meanwhile house democrats are also issuing demands. the chairs of the house intelligence and oversight committees saying they want a full intelligence damage assessment after classified documents were seized from mar-a-lago. take a listen. some of those documents were marked top secret, that s the highest that could be done if it s disclosed so the fact that they were in an unsecure place with a padlock or whatever security at a hotel is deeply alarming and i have asked for along with chairman maloney a damage assessment by the intelligence community and a briefing to congress. the fbi seized 11 sets of documents marked classified from the mar-a-lago resort including 1 marked as top secret sci. this is coming as sources say that the doj received assurances from a trump attorney in june that the former president was in not possession of classified materials. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is with me now. we have members of congress d
committees want answers about what fallout could await after top-secret documents were found at trump s resort. they re asking the director of national intelligence to provide an immediate damage assessment. you track a lot of this stuff. you are monitoring social media all the time for this sort of thing. the uptick in threats related to the mar-a-lago search is unmistakable. it s there and it is concerning. law enforcement officials across the country. that s right, jim. as soon as this news broke last monday night across these forums, both on the major social media platforms but more so on the new emerging social media platforms that many right-wing figures have migrated over to including, of course, trump s own social media platform, we saw immediate calls for violence against the fbi. i want to show you some of the threats made, some of the rhetoric, lock and load, kill all feds and another person writing, i m just going to say it, garland needs to be assassinated. sim
basis for the search warrant. it is highly unlikely that will be unsealed since it lays out the inside information and the sources that federal investigators relied on to get the federal judge to approve the warrant. democrats wan the director of national intelligence haynes to have a review because of the implications of what was found at mar-a-lago. the top democrats from house oversight and house intelligence. and they wrote this in the letter to dni haynes saying a recently unsealed court document and the property recovered at the mar-a-lago club describe numerous classified documents held by former president trump including top secret sensitive compartmented material among the most sensitive and highly protected information in the u.s. government. former president trump s conduct has potentially put our national security at grave risk. the issue demands a full review in addition to the ongoing law enforcement inquiry. congressman adam schiff, maloney, wrote the letter. t
feds. the democratic chairs of the house intelligence oversight committees want answers over what fallout could await after top-secret documents were found at trump s resort and are asking the director of national intelligence to provide an immediate damage assessment. let s bring in two former trump administration insiders former counterterrorism and covid adviser to mike pence olivia troye and former white house press secretary steph nye grisham. thank you both for being with us this evening. the thing i can t wrap my head around is why a president who notoriously paid little attention to his daily intelligence briefings as reported time and again while he was in office why would he hold on to this stuff and have it around mar-a-lago. you were his press secretary for a period of time. why does he suddenly care about top-secret materials? your guess is as good as mine and i ll leave it up to law enforcement and the investigation to come to that conclusion. there are many t