under executive privilege. meanwhile house democrats are also issuing demands. the chairs of the house intelligence and oversight committees saying they want a full intelligence damage assessment after classified documents were seized from mar-a-lago. take a listen. some of those documents were marked top secret, that s the highest that could be done if it s disclosed so the fact that they were in an unsecure place with a padlock or whatever security at a hotel is deeply alarming and i have asked for along with chairman maloney a damage assessment by the intelligence community and a briefing to congress. the fbi seized 11 sets of documents marked classified from the mar-a-lago resort including 1 marked as top secret sci. this is coming as sources say that the doj received assurances from a trump attorney in june that the former president was in not possession of classified materials. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is with me now. we have members of congress d
these systems and trained staff to protect themselves against hacking. they have also been misleading about how many fake accounts and bots are on the platform, that s an attempt elon musk has used to try to get out of a deal with the company. there will be suspicions about the timing of this. are you guys carrying water for elon musk? absolutely not. we have been following the news like everyone else, but that has nothing to do with his decisions. he said he was fired by twitter in january of this year after he tried to raise the alarm internally. this is not any kind of personal issue for him. he was eventually fired in january of this year. but he hasn t given up on trying to do that job. in response to the allegations, twitter told cnn security and privacy had long been a priority at twitter. as for zacho, they said he, quote, was fired from his senior executive role at twitter more than six months ago for poor performance and leadership. he now appears to be op
brutal strikes could be coming from russia. what the u.s. state department is saying tonight, as well, sharing declassified intelligence with ukraine. ian pannell from inside ukraine with what we re learning at this hour. in this country, the deadly flooding. torrential rains on the move tonight across several states. and now we learn of the wife and mother on the phone with her husband as her car was lifted by the waters. what she said to him. she did not survive. trevor ault in the flood zone, ginger zee timing out the storms tonight. this evening, two men convicted in the plot to kidnap michigan governor gretchen whitmer. murder charges dropped against two police officers accused of killing rayshard brooks in atlanta. why the officers have been cleared tonight. the abc news countdown to the midterms tonight. and primary day in new york and florida. in new york, two veteran members of congress turning on each other, now competing to represent the same district. jerr
in the u.s. and around the world. it is thursday, august 4th and i m brianna keilar with john avalon in for john berman. good morning. good morning. we begin with a surreal intersection of the defamation case against conspiracy theorist alex jones and the investigation into the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. jones is on trial in texas for the lies that he spread about the sandy hook massacre and in a jaw-dropping moment in court a lawyer for the sandy hook parents revealed this did you know that 12 days ago 12 days ago your attorneys messed up and sent me an entire digital copy of your entire cellphone with every text message you ve sent for the past two years and when informed did not take any steps to identify it as privileged or protected in any way, and as of two days ago it fell free and clear into my possession and that is how i know you lied to me? cellphone records appear to show jones had, in fact, texted about the sandy hook shooting even thou
dollars. all of this coming as the biden administration has pushed the kremlin to accept an offer they put on the table in june to get griner home. offering to swap griner and another american, paul whelan, for viktor bout, an arms smuggler serving a 25-year sentence in the united states. so far, russia has not agreed. they should have accepted it weeks ago when we first made it. it was an earnest attempt to see if we could get outcomes here. we are still going to keep making the attempts. reporter: as for where the efforts stand now, administration officials say the ball is in russia s court. all while her family, teammates and support percent in the united states turn up the pressure to get her home. griner s agents saying today that getting a deal done will be harped but calling it urgent. her team saying they will not allow her to be forgotten and lawmakers urging the administration to bolster the offer. there is nothing we schanot do short of impacting the national