going to feel when president biden signs it next week. and author salman rushdie, attacked on stage and air lifted to the hospital. we ll tell you what we know about his condition this morning. and inflation is cooling, gas prices are dropping, but the cost of other items remains painfully high. what the new numbers say about the current state of the economy. welcome to your weekend. it s saturday, august 13th. we are grateful to be with you. good morning, amara. good morning, boris. so good to be with you. feel like i ve been missing boris in my life. nice to be here. pleasure to be with you, as always. thanks, boris. we begin with new details this morning on what led the fbi to execute and unprecedented search warrant on former president trump s home, according to court documents unsealed friday, investigators removed 11 sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago, including some material that were marked as top secret, sci, which stands for sensitive, comp
the potential risk including paralysis, especially for children and actress anne heche, her death at 53 a week after crashing her car into a home. the message from her heartbroken family announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening i m tom llamas in for lester tonight we start with that breaking news our first look at the search warrant used to seize those highly classified document the fbi found inside former president trump s mar-a-lago residence. that unprecedented search turning up sensitive documents, four even labeled top secret and meant to be viewed only in highly secured facilities tonight what we re finding out about what else was found including 27 boxes, information about the president of france, clemency papers for top trump confidante roger stone and binders of photos. all of it fuelling questions tonight about what will happen next with a document stating agents were searching for evidence of violating three laws including part of t
after he left the white house. inside of those boxes, were things like the letter that former president, barack obama left for trump when he took office. the quote love letters using the former presidents exact words, that north korean leader kim jong-un stand him. as well as documents marked classified and top secret. however that was not all of the trump that he left with. nbc news learn that somebody familiar with the documents inside of mar-a-lago told investigators that there may still be more classified documents swirled away at the golf resort. nbc news also learned not in the spraying, trump received a federal grand jury subpoena for documents at the government believing that he still had in his possession. and that we are not a part of that initial tranche of the mar-a-lago hoard. and on monday, federal agents executed a search warrant at mar-a-lago, that much you already know. the property receipt for the cash of documents and items removed from trump s property thi
ga and good evening, i m erin burnett. trump investigated for violating the espionage act. yes, that is just one of the crimes former president trump is under investigation for by the department of justice tonight. obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records are also on the list. now just to be clear, when you hear the word espionage, you might say, wait, espionage? here s what it specifically relates to. i ll quote for you. information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the united states or to the advantage of any foreign nation. and as the warrant, the unsealed warrant now states, the property to be seized includes, and just reading here and you can see on your screen as well, information including communications in any form regarding the retrieval, storage or transmission of national defense information or classified material. and that is why the fbi searched mar-a-lago on monday. and we now also know what the fbi took
Pattern for one donald j. Trump. His incredibly reckless and cavaer handling of the ys most sensitive natiecurity secrets. Abc news was they first to report this, quote, former President Trump allegedly discussed potentially Sensitive Information about u. S. Nuclear submarines with a member of his maralago club. An Australian Bilonaire who allegedly sre the information with scores ofothers, including more tozen foreign officials. Several of his own employe a handful of journalists. That is according to sources familiar with the matter. The billionaire is named anthony pratt. You can see him right here in this 2018 photo from the sydney morning herald. Hes at maralago in the photo. He reportedly spoke to prosecutors and fbi agents about his conversation with the expresident. Heres what he told them, according to abc news. Quot pratt described how looking to make conversation with trump at a meeting at rlago in april 2021 he brought up the american submine fleet, which the two had dcued