violence. let s go straight to more, tracking so much of what has done said on line. death threats have been out there, some general like social media posts urging people to kill all feds. but there have also been very specific threats, in particular aimed at the attorney general, merrick garland, and the florida judge who signed and then unsealed that search warrant. how concerned are federal officials about about this going from online threats to actual violence? reporter: yeah. well, sources told our colleague josh campbell that the fbi s investigating an unprecedented number of threats against its personnel including some of its agents. and you can really see that playing out on line since right after the news of that search of mar-a-lago broke on monday. i want to show you some of the kind of messages that have been posted. you mentioned there s one called kill awed feds, another lock and load, another person writes, i m going to say it, garland needs to be assassina
mar-a-lago, florida home. and what potential crimes are being investigated. agents say they recovered 11 sets of classified documents, at least one was marked as top secret/sci which is one of the highest levels of classification. the warrant also reveals some of the potential crimes officials are looking at including violations of the espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. at this point, no charges have been filed. cnn s evan perez is live for us with details on this. evan, what more are you learning about what was seized by the fbi? reporter: good morning, fredericka. you re highlighting the most important part of this and what the fbi found when they went into mar-a-lago to retrieve these 20 boxes. the top item, obviously, are these documents that were labeled as ts/sci. this is among the most tightly guarded secrets of the u.s. government. these are things that in order to view them you have to go to special rooms that are des
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
Hey, ari. Thank you very much. We are planning a big show, here, bear with us, we have donald trump facing the fraud trial as soon as this monday, with Special Report, and d. A. Fani willis, taking on trump and the sprawling rico case will begin with trunks address, take a listen. There is an Extremist Movement that does not share the basic belief in our democracy. The Maga Movement and there is no doubt that Todays Republican Party is driven and intimidated by maga republican extremist. They are not hiding their attacks, they are openly promoting them. Trump says the constitution gave him the right to do whatever he wants as president. End of quote. I have never heard a President Say that even in jest. The president , making those comments about the threatening remarks to general mark millie, which were a very big deal. Donald trump posted online an attack on milley, then sa in different time, the punishment would have been death. This is, by any measure, a major scandal. It is not so
hi, everyone, it is 4:00 in new york, i m alicia menendez, in for nicolle wallace. it is a tried and true tactic of the donald trump playbook, turn anything into political score settling. today, lawyers for the ex-president filed a motion for a mistrial in the civil fraud case against him in new york that threatens to bring down the trump organization and tarnish his brand as a business mogul. in the motion, trump s team accused the judge and his staff of bias. the motion is filled to the brim with dramatic language, saying quote, only the grant of a mistrial can salvage what is left of the rule of law. trump s lawyers also took aim at the judge s law clerk, included photos of the clerk, as well as her campaign donation history in their public filing. that is even after the judge placed a limited gag order on donald trump that barred him from commenting on court staff. trump s lawyers were then prohibited from discussing the judge s communications with his staff. the length o