first responders shared graphic photos of the crash that killed her husband and her daughter. cbs jonathan vigliotti is at the courthouse. and a 12-year-old baseball player is out of the i.c.u., taking his first steps as his team pays tribute at the little league world series. cbs nikki battiste speaks with his dad. he just keeps defeating the odds, and the the only way to explain that is by miracles. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. brennan: good evening, and thank you all for joining us. i m margaret brennan in for norah. tonight, the u.s. will, for the first time, give ukraine scan eagle surveillance drones, mine mine-resistant vehicles to mount a counteroffensive against russian forces. a senior defense official tells cbs news that the nearly $800 million package is to help ukrainian forces regain territory as the war nears its sixth month. shelling around a key nuclear plant in ukraine is drawing internatio
but pages, new pages we haven t seen this before. specific information about the potential offenses that the justice department is investigating. in here is language that does sharpen the focus on the former president himself. for example, if you just look at this part, it says under the search is related to a violation of, it continues to say willful retention of national defense information, concealment or removal of government records, and obstruction of federal investigation. so we got a little bit here. this, again, is new information as part of the whole search of mar-a-lago. the federal judge today also ordering the justice department to possibly release the crucial affidavit used to get the search warrant. so prepare redactions in casey the ruling is to release it. the affidavit itself will tell us what specifically the justice department knew when it searched trump s home. what specifically investigators were looking for and why. what was their cause. and who helped
describing the fbi as the, quote, fascist bureau of investigation. we ll talk more in a moment about the debate within the former president s circle over putting out the surveillance video or not. but according to reporting in the new york times by cnn political analyst maggie haberman, investigators already have at least some surveillance video from earlier before the raid, which may have actually triggered the search. quoting now, officials then used a subpoena to obtain surveillance footage of the hallway outside a storage room at mar-a-lago and saw something that alarmed them. they also received information from at least one witness who indicated that more material might remain at the residence, people familiar with the investigation said. tonight s lead story comes at the end of a day that saw a string of related developments, including rudy giuliani going before a grand jury, the outlines of a plea deal involving alan weissle berg, and a declaration of political war f
collins in washington. reporter: good morning, christine. we are now learning that former president trump and his legal team are considering releasing the surveillance footage from those several hours when fbi agents were at mar-a-lago conducting that search of course of his property looking for classified information that they believe he took with him from his time in the white house to when he went to mar-a-lago as he left the day he was inaugurated. there were major questions of course this entire justice department investigation over how this information was handled and what exactly was taken down there and we re now told that despite that day when fbi agents showed up and they asked the trump team on the ground to turn off the surveillance cameras, they did not do so and they are now in control of several hours of footage of them actually being there conducting this search. and we re told that they are now considering releasing it, though there are some inside the form
good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, there are tapes. cnn learning that some trump allies are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of fbi agents searching his mar-a-lago home. we don t know what is on the tapes or not on the tapes. the footage has been held so close to the vest that a source close to the president tells cnn they re not sure if trump himself has even seen the whole thing. now, trump s son, eric, has been happy to talk about it, saying they re ready for the whole world to see the tapes. you still have the surveillance tape, is that correct? are you allowed to share that with the country? absolutely, sean, at the right time. absolutely, at the right time. well, the context here is we are awaiting a key decision on the mar-a-lago search. in just hours, the judge who approved the fbi search of mar-a-lago is holding a hearing, and the hearing is specifically on the merits of unsealing the affidavit. that was the affidavit that wa