anything more to the point tonight. 67%, two in three, say american democracy is in danger of collapse. the percentage of democrats and republicans who believe it, identical. however, don t go looking for a bipartisan silver lining. the poll doesn t ask people to give a reason why they believe this. so it s possible, even likely given such other recent polling that a deep partisan divide exists over what people think is wrong. to use a political science term, ain t good. it does not bode well. but it certainly sets the stage for what the president will say tonight. and the backdrop, significant new developments in the court battle over documents seized from the former president s mansion and what he said today about pardoning january 6th defendants. let s go first to cnn s jeff zeleny who is at independence hall in philadelphia. jeff, what more are you learning about the speech tonight, which begins in just a few minutes? reporter: john, we are berning that president biden
cnn has learned that christina bobb was at least one of the people giving those assurances, even signing a letter saying so. the doj filing goes on to say the documents were, quote, likely concealed and remove frd a storage room at mar-a-lago as an effort to, quote, obstruct, unquote, the fbi investigation. it says that some recovered items were so classified that even some fbi counterintelligence personnel and others needed additional security clearances to review them. so, that s for the doj filing. now, again, just seconds ago, we got the trump team s reply. cnn s sara murray and josh campbell join us now with a look at what s in it. that s right. we are just starting to look through this. essentially what the trump team is focused on is this argument about this special master and whether there should be another outside party who is reviewing the documents that the fbi seized when they searched mar-a-lago in august. and it is very clear in this filing that the trump team
brief, revealing new details. this filing was 19 page es. it did acknowledge that classified material was found at mar-a-lago earlier this month. but essentially, it says it wasn t a big deal. says quote, the proported initiation for the probe was the alleged discovery of sensitive information contained within the 15 boxes of presidential records. but this discovery, end quote, was to be fully anticipated given the very nature of presidential records. simply put, the notion that presidential records would contain sensitive information should never have been cause for alarm. this is part of a bid by the trump team to have a special master appointed. a judge holds a hearing on that tomorrow. and this comes on the heels of the very serious claims laid out in the justice department s 36-page filing, including another quote here, evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room at the trump home and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct
over the january 6th insurrection. [ chanting hang mike pence ] s. it s over. you better run, cops. [ stop the steal chant ] investigating the violence and the lies that fuelled an attack on this nation s democracy. tonight a january 6th select committee presents its case in prime time involving a former president, his enablers. the committee promises new evidence. what will it mean for america s future? let s start with cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles. and ryan, 1,000 witness interviews. mountains of documents, and a promise that the public will see some things for the first time tonight. walk us through what to expect. well, the first thing is that anybody that watches this hearing tonight should not be prepared to see what they would think of as a traditional congressional hearing. committees are describing it as a multimedia presentation. we re going to see graphics. we re going to see sound bites from witness interviews that t tack place behind closed d
majority of the video that will be shown has not yet been seen publicly. the house panel will try to show americans that former president trump was not a bystander but was at the center of the uprising to overturn the election and the votes of 81 million people who chose president biden. so, let s begin the hour with cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles. so, ryan, have they told us what this new video and testimony will be? reporter: not specifically. but we do have a good idea as to where it is headed. we are told that this is going to be new angles of some of the violence and chaos that took place on that day from a unique perspective, a perspective that could come from a documentarian that was actually embedded with the proud boys right-wing militia group on that day. there s also going to be taped interviews and clips of these taped interviews of these depositions that took place behind closed doors with members of the trump administration and the trump family it