absurd claims. since the fbi searched donald trump s private residence and members club back in august. the ex-president declassified all the documents that he could declassify them if he wanted to, quote, even by thinking about it. it is a claim that has been repeated over and over and over again by trump and his allies. the disgraced ex-president mentioned it in public and the media appearances so many times. not one single time has that claim been made in a court of law. now new reporting suggests that the question of whether there is an a proof that he declassified the documents is a major interest to prosecutors at doj. new york times is reporting that federal prosecutors and former president trump s handling of national security documents, what a question one of his confident ants about a claim that trup declassified the documents. that confidante is cash patel, one of trump s biggest defenders in the documents investigation. he is a trump loyalist who made a career o
be the next prime minister, taking over for boris johnson, as the leader of a country in crisis. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m brianna keilar, and this is a the situation room special report. we begin with the major new development in the mar-a-lago search and the justice department investigation into former president trump s handling of classified documents. a federal judge granting his request for an outside attorney to review the materials the fbi seized. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez is working the story for us. evan, what exactly did the judge rule here? well, brianna, the judge cited her concern about the fairness and of course this extraordinary situation of the search of a former president s home. i ll read you just a part of what she ruled today. she said that the court hereby authorizes the appointment of a special master to review the seized property for personal items and docu
after the pump at the treatment facility failed. some residents have little or no water in their homes. mississippi s governor declaring a water emergency. until it is fixed, it means we do not have reliable running water at scale. it means the city cannot produce enough water to fight fires, to reliably flush toilets and to meet other critical needs. the city of jackson has battled water issues for years. let s begin with isabel gonzales with our top story. good morning. good morning to you, erica. this is an emergency. the governor there telling the people of jackson not to drink the water, saying that the water and sewer is on the brink of collapse for 250,000 people. now, the governor was alerted last week that pumps at one of the city s two water treatment plants was damage. then came all of the rainfall and the flooding of the pearl river. that was the straw that broke the camel s back. the water is not safe to drink and little to no water pressure for people in j
years chanting lock her up about hillary clinton because of some deleted emails or quote unquote wiping a surveyor, they re now out there defending a man who clearly did not take the national security of the united states to heart. i will be up to doj whether that reaches the level of indictment. but this is disgusting, in my mind. and a reaction to president biden s promise to cancel some student debt for low, middle income borrowers and to critics who say it doesn t go far enough. there are a lot of people hurting announce cider right now, people are getting crushed with inflation, crushed with gas prices, food prices and all the rest. i think a targeted approach right now really does send the wrong message, there s a lot of people out there making 30, 40 grand a year that didn t go to college. they need help as well. the criticism is correct, but the answer is not to deny help two people who cannot deal with these horrendous student debts. the answer is that, maybe j
according to ken dilanian, that is a designation by a cia officer or possibly dia based on conversations with human source overseas, ie, a spy. there s also orcon originator control, noforn, as in cannot be shared with foreign nationals, fisa and si, signals intelligence, in order intercepts of communications. it also contains the marking fpotus, handwritten note, as in fots the former president of the united states is believed to have written after he left the presidency. and in a 13-page memo explaining why the d.o.j. made redactions, the government argues it needed to, quote, protect the safety and privacy of a significant number of civilian witnesses in addition to law enforcement. key in on those words, a significant number of civilian witnesses. we ll explain what that tells us. but first to note, the court s system, the web site, crashed, which is why the redacted affidavit did not come out until about 15 minutes after the noon deadline. apparently there were just too