the former attorney general, bill barr, weighing in on a potential indictment of donald trump. here s what he said on fox earlier. i think, as i ve said all along, there are two questions. will the government be able to make out a technical case? will they have evidence by which that they could indict somebody on, including him? that s the first question. and i think they re getting very close to that point, frankly. but i think at the end of the day, there s another question, it s do you indict a former president? what will that do to the country? what kind of precedent will that set? will the people really understand that this is not failing to return a library book? that this was serious? you have to worry about those things. and i hope that those kinds of factors will incline the administration not to indict him. because i don t want to see him indicted. it comes as we re learning that the documents seized from mar-a-lago s resort including one on a former government
world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to you to the classified information seized at mar-a-lago including the government s most closely guarded secrets. cnn s sara murray is following all of the new developments. new revelations about the documents seized from mar-a-lago. it s very, very troubling that this type of information would be there, anywhere for that matter. a document describing a foreign government s nuclear capabilities was among those recovered from former president donald trump s florida resort, sources today the washington post, when i went to cia i didn t have access because there was a strict need to know. the justice department said in court filings that some of the documents previously recovered from mar-a-lago was marked special access program specifically who should be allowed to view the information. some of the docs were marked sci, material that must be viewed in a secure government facility. it j
it s forecast to reach major hurricane status baring down on cuba. the storm s path otherwise uncertain, but floridians are prepare ing for the worst. people are filling sand beings to protect against the heavy rains and storm surge. long lines outside of stores as people look to stock up on supplies. you can see the empty health ises there. bottled water, wasn t of the hot est items. florida is under a state of emergency. governor ron desantis activated the national guard. joining us is michael brennan, acting deputy director for noaa. thank you so much for being with us on this morning as we re watching ian approach here. give us a sense of where you are watching and when you re expecting landfall. well, you can see ian right now is located about 90 miles southwest of grnd kay men with intense activity developing near the center. we have seen this intensify rapidly. if we look at the forecast now, we re expecting ian to turn from its northwestern motion and move towar
forecasters expect ian to intensify into a major hurricane in the next 24 hours before it makes landfall somewhere along florida s west coast. ian poses a formidable storm surge threat for the tampa area. let s begin with chad myers, he has the latest hurricane center advisory. and chad, something that i found interesting here, officials were saying there is a higher than usual unpredict ability about how strong this storm will be and where it is going to land. true. and i think we re getting we re anxious. we want this to be perfect. we want all of the models to line up and say this is what is going to happen and that hasn t happened. a few models on the right and the left, not really agreeing. so an 80 mile per hour storm at the 11:00 advisory two minutes ago. the storm does move across cuba overnight and into the southwestern part of florida with winds and waves already on shore by 8:00 wednesday morning. there will already be wind. but the storm is still growing. wher
opposing trump s request for a special master to review all the materials seized by the fbi. the department reports it has now recovered more than 320 classified documents from mar-a-lago. prosecutors say, some documents or likely concealed or removed from storage in an effort to obstruct their investigation. the court filing cast serious doubts on a statement by trump s attorney that all classified material had been returned. the justice department also argues that trump lacks legal standing to request a special master s, since the documents belong to the government, not to him. the court filing came with this photo showing documents taken by the fbi from trump s office. more now from cnn s sara mine. the justice department weighing in with the good side of the story of what s happened in the run up and in the aftermath of the search at mar-a-lago. this is all part of the court battle playing out over whether there should be a special master, an independent third party app