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
this. you should never use the justice department on the gland out of the boxes of material, but they won t put things in those boxes to entrap him? one man is already targeted a fbi office before being killed by police. the violent rhetoric online has reached a fevered pitch. plus democrats and the president hailing the passage of the inflation protection act, hoping it will translate to votes in november. today the american people one. the special interests last, finally. the final passage of the inflation reduction act act in the house of representatives, people to see lower health care, those that are paying zero dollars in federal income tax will now have to pay a minimum tax. we can recover all that this hour. we re gonna begin with the unsealed search warrant from mar-a-lago. hunting for people with knowledge of the document, who tunes reporting that at least one term provider signed a statement in june and serving that all material merit is classified and
We were like sisters. We had shared so much. I told me they had found her body, and i just collapsed. She is dead, because she was my friend. First, melissa disappeared. Thats the milliondollar question. I knew then that she had never made it into her house. Signs of a struggle, and a strange orange missed. They didnt know what it was. Then, her boss went missing, to. Who was he afraid of . Mightve been afraid that he was next. He left behind a bigger mess. We three kings be stealing the gold. A missing fortune. Ballpark, 1 1 2 million dollars. We have no clues, no leads. Some wondered, was there a link . Two crimes, one for money, one, supposedly for love, and behind both, a lingering mystery. It is just so ugly, and so wrong, and i cannot fix it. Welcome to dateline. Hotshot florida attorney, Melissa Lewis was living large in ft. Lauderdale. But then, her seemingly charmed life ended in tragedy when a body was discovered in a drainage canal. She had been murdered. But who would want
to get whatever records you re seeking. without having the ability to move them or alter them. i ve never seen a situation where attorneys led to be present to oversee a. if a person has that to be there, they would make them leave, or they can find them to one room with a nation watching them. and different types of cases, sometimes they re handcuffed. that is not oversight by the person, there s not oversight by the attorneys. the timing of it was normal for a search warrant. i want to ask you more about the timing, here. that where it was signed on august 5th, the searches was down on against a. some of pointed out, if this is so urgent, why wait the three days, but are your thoughts on that? under the rule of criminal procedure 41, he comes to fame in 14 days. from the time it signed, they have to do within 14 days. they have to say when during that time period to do it.
the wind of political change blowing through chicago, mayor rahm emanuel announced he will not seek a third term just months before february s election. he did not give a specific reason why. chicago has seen a surge in violence since he took over in 2011. his critics highlighting the out-of-control violence. he was a disgrace, a disaster and in 7 years he was mayor we are talking upwards of 4000 people murdered on the streets of chicago, 20,000 shot, catastrophic injuries in the last 7 years. rob: all this as jury selection begins in the murder trial of jason van dyck who is accused of shooting and killing look want mcdonald, and waiting more than a year to release the dash cam video of the incident. jillian: a group of republican attorneys led by texas s kim