ahead for all of us. plus, after months of crying out for accountability, the police chief who led that botched response to a school shooting in uvalde, texas is fired. hear directly from parents naming other officials they want removed. if you check into a hotel knowing that a chance toof your neighbor to the left and right is a homeless person. that plan to house homes people and the sfeers debate surrounding it. it is saturday, august 27th. we re so grateful that you re starting your weekend with us. good morning, amara. good morning. up first, the new details in the documents. we are learning more information from the affidavit authorizing the search of former president trump s mar-a-lago residence. the heavily redacted affidavit revealing that classified documents found at the residence includes some of the country s most sensitive secrets. according to the filing, authorities had probable cause to believe that classified national security materials were im
trump has been calling for it to be released on social media. his lawyers have yet to take legal action on this. lawyers for news organizations, including nbc news, are petitions in court today for the affidavit to be made public. dr. fauci will be with me as cdc director dr. walensky announces a major overall at the cdc, acknowledging the agency failed to respond quickly enough to the pandemic over the last three years and did not serve the public. all this as the agency is scrambling to deal with monkeypox, a polio scare in new york and rolling out booster shots in the next couple weeks for omicron subvariants of covid. we begin in florida with nbc s cal perry, ken dilanian and former u.s. attorneys joyce vance and chuck rosenberg. cal, set the table for us. what do we know about this magistrate judge? who is going to argue before him this afternoon? we understand the trump lawyers were not taking part. reporter: yes. the two parties that we are going to hear from are
documents with classification marks. we are also learning additional details about the criminal justice implications possibly for the former president. he is calling federal prosecutors hacks and thugs tonight who had no write to storm his property and steal everything in sight in his words. correspondent david spunt is at the justice department tonight to begin our coverage. good evening, david. good evening to you in this redacted affidavit we are seeing a picture of federal prosecutors who had an escalating concern about documents stored at the home of former president donald trump. in justifying its search, the sworn affidavit notes there was also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises referring to mar-a-lago. trump s team in january turned over 15 boxes of materials stored there. 15 of them containing 184 classified documents. 67 marked confidential. 25 marked labeled 25 top secret. the affidavit says some of the material a
the material was marked with the highest levels of classification that exists, material that is meant to be held only in secure government facilities not at a private club where basically anyone can pay for membership and wander around. arguably, the agent s most alarming finding that we were able to see in this redacted version was that the boxes contained classified information that came from human intelligence sources meaning if the documents were mishandled, leaked or transmitted they could compromise the identity of american intelligence assets and the affidavit also lays out why doj had good reason not to believe or trust trump and his lawyers knowing that back in february of this year, after the archives notified congress that there was classified material and what they got back from mar-a-lago, trump put out a statement that very fact. investigators write this, quote, there is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified national defense
taken. they made public the warrant and receipt in light of the former president s public confirmation of the search, the surrounding circumstances and the substantial public interest in this matter. reporter: on friday, some details of those documents were revealed. fbi agents removed more than 20 boxes of materials as well as binders of photos and at least one handwritten note. according to the property receipt, seizing one set of, quote, top secret csi documents, four sets of, quote, top secret documents, three sets of, quote, secret documents, and three sets of confidential documents. but neither the released warrant nor property receipt detailed the contents of those classified documents. however, sources familiar with the investigation told the washington post that documents about nuclear weapons were among the items sought. the search warrant did identify three federal crimes the justice department is looking at as part of the investigation. v violations of the e