keilar and those were the words from president biden, taking direct aim at what he calls maga extremism. biden says it is threatening the soul of the nation and fanning the flames of political violence. flanked by marines in the shadow of philadelphia s independence hall, the primetime speech was more than a warning, it was a call to action for voters to make their voices heard in the midterm elections. it may have sounded political, but the white house this morning insists it was, quote, entirely about democracy. here are some highlights. as i stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault. we do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. they promote authoritarian leaders and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country. maga for
so walk us through. hey, fred. this is a big day yesterday. when we got this document. we learned a lot, frankly. and you almost never get this level of transparency. these are documents that the doj wanted to keep secret. thankfully it was released yesterday with some redactions. remember the timeline here. this was the warrant application that they submitted to get permission to search mar-a-lago. that came months after the national archives had already gone to mar-a-lago to retrieve 15 boxes of information that former president trump voluntarily turned over. voluntarily. once they looked in those boxes, they were alarmed with what they found and here is why. look at these numbers, fred. 67 confidential documents. 92 that were marked secret and 25 marked top secret going in ford from the least serious to the most serious. not only that, fred, this affidavit that we finally got to look at yesterday, it gave us new details about the classification markings on some of th
cnn s natasha bertrand joins me now. the director of national intelligence is taking this very seriously. she is and rightfully so, right, because of all the sensitive information we believe was in these documents and we re learning that the director of national intelligence, avril haines has written a letter to the oversight and house intelligence committees telling them that she has begun a classification review and a review of the risk to national security that these kind of loose documents could pose. now, clearly this is kind of an escalation here. we weren t sure whether the intelligence community would be able to see the documents that had been retrieved from mar-a-lago because they are part of an active criminal investigation, and the fbi typically holds very closely any evidence in those probes. but obviously the risk here, the potential risk to national security contained in these documents is just too great for the intel community to not be made aware of what s p
primetime address on threats to american democracy, and what the white house is calling a battle for the soul of the nation. this hour, house minority leader kevin mccarthy is already in california and set to make his own remarks, slamming joe biden for calling some americans semi fascist. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off. i m pamela brown, and you are in the situation room. our top story tonight, a hearing on former president trump s request for a special master has just concluded without a ruling. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez is tracking the mar-a-lago investigation. so both sides were battling it out in court, but as of tonight, no decision from the judge. give us the latest. reporter: that s right. judge eileen cannon says she s not ruling today, not immediately at least, but she seems inclined to grant former president trump s request for a special master, a third party, to review some of the docum
reshaping and another senate race. i asked democratic tent candidate, tim ryan, what s happening in ohio. a global catastrophe, and stark relief, as global drought room reveals sunken nazi ships in serbia, and dinosaur tracks and texas. that all starts right now. good evening, from new york, i am chris hayes, a florida judge has ordered a redacted version of the search warrant affidavit, outlining that they are casing it to be an steeled. the key word there is redacted. we don t know how much the document will be revealed. the doj, clearly, reluctant to release any of it, warning, it could jeopardize the investigation which is currently ongoing to the ex president. they are not directing to release the redacted document, we should see it anytime before tomorrow at 12 pm. this could be the closest look yet at exactly what donald trump is accused of doing. since we ve learned, covering trump for the better part of a decade, he lashes out when he thinks he s in trouble, and ev