donald trump s florida home. a week ago we learned of the unprecedented search of the former president s mar-a-lago home and since then, the justice department revealed the scope of the sensitive and classified documents that were recovered from there. sources tell cnn one of trump s attorneys signed a written statement back in june declaring there were no more classified materials left at ma mar-a-lago. it was asked of the attorney general for information on the records seized in trump s home. the former president continues for his part to offer shifting explanations for why he took the classified records from the white house in the first place and then didn t return them after the fact. much to get to so let s begin with cnn kaitlin live in washington. kaitlin, what more are you learning about this new request from top senators? reporter: well, kate over the weekend and today we ve seen a lot of bipartisan calls for transparency around this search even after we got that s
unsealed by the justice department. among those documents, the search warrant and property receipt of once the fbi was after, both obtained by nbc, and confirming an investigation into potential crimes associated with violations of the espionage act. after the agency removed nearly two dozen boxes of material, 11 sets of qualified documents, some of them top secret. were removed from trump s mar-a-lago office six days ago. two months after a trump lawyer signed a letter saying all classified material had been returned to the government. that is according to new reporting from the new york times, citing four sources familiar with the letter. regardless, over the last week, their response from republican politicians has ranged from uncritical solidarity with trump, to an increasingly marked silence, as the depth of the implication becomes too extreme to dance around. of course, that hasn t stopped many from trying, as some republican lawmakers continue to demonize federal law e
the fbi and department of homeland security are warning of an increase in threats against federal law enforcement after the search of donald trump s mar-a-lago estate in florida last week. a source tells cnn the number of threats is unprecedented. jessica schneider is live in washington can details on this. what more are you learning about this? they notified the fbi s 40,000 employees telling them remain vigilant working at fbi facilities on top of the joint bulletin over the weekend. they re laying out how the threats online have intensified and wrote this over the weekend, the fbi and dhs observed an increase in violent threats posted on social media against federal officials and facilities including a threat to place a so-called dirty bomb in front of fbi head quarters and issuing calls for civil war and armed rebellion. really serious threats there. they only increased since the
donald trump s florida home. a week ago we learned of the unprecedented search of the former president s mar-a-lago home and since then, the justice department revealed the scope of the sensitive and classified documents that were recovered from there. sources tell cnn one of trump s attorneys signed a written statement back in june declaring there were no more classified materials left at ma mar-a-lago. it was asked of the attorney general for information on the records seized in trump s home. the former president continues for his part to offer shifting explanations for why he took the classified records from the white house in the first place and then didn t return them after the fact. much to get to so let s begin with cnn kaitlin live in washington. kaitlin, what more are you learning about this new request from top senators? reporter: well, kate over the weekend and today we ve seen a lot of bipartisan calls for transparency around this search even after we got that search warr
items and 20 of them are documents. now a lot of them are box labeled a 1, box of documents. the most important is some entries indicate the information was not just classified but tssci. what does that mean? that is the highest level of classification in our government, top secret sensitive compartmented information. we know the fbi found documents with those markings inside mar-a-lago. the other thing is we know for sure donald trump s lawyer, christina bob was present at the search, was given the receipt and signed for it at 6:19 p.m. on the day of the search. also, ellie, with this you learn more about the potential criminal charges of the crimes the justice department is concerned about. can you walk us through that? kate, any time prosecutors execute a serarch warrant you have to show probable cause certain crimes were committed. important to know it s less than