and good morning to you, it is saturday, august 27th. i am ali velshi, we are learning more about why the federal government destroy their decision to conduct the unprecedented surge on the former presidents private residence and why a federal judge granted the warrant for them to do. at less than 24 hours ago, redacted copy of the affidavit for that search warrant was unsealed. the document is what the justice department submitted to a federal judge to convince him to approve the search of mar-a-lago, so that fbi agents could recover the box of materials that properly belong to the united states government, many of which turned out to be classified documents. the affidavit does not contain proof of a crime. but it details why the justice department believes it has probable cause to believe that a crime may have been committed. the justice department calls the affidavit, quote, a roadmap to the government s ongoing investigation. that is why about half of the 38-page document
repeatedly inform it for putin to give it up. we ll have all the details. plus new controversy over a picture that has just surfaced of pennsylvania republican candidate for governor. we ll get into that as well. we re also following a rally in texas. parents of victims of the uvalde shooting taking their message straight to the texas governor greg abbott. and we are following an increasing war of words over the president student debt relief plan, over the after the president blasts republicans over their own loans. just a short time ago, the director of national intelligence is working to review the material seized from trump s former home, and assessing the potential risk to national security if the documents were disclosed. it comes after a committee and it also [inaudible] the parliament of justice offering new insight as to why the fbi seized highly classified documents, on august 8th. the former president took from the white house contain information that coul
brief, revealing new details. this filing was 19 page es. it did acknowledge that classified material was found at mar-a-lago earlier this month. but essentially, it says it wasn t a big deal. says quote, the proported initiation for the probe was the alleged discovery of sensitive information contained within the 15 boxes of presidential records. but this discovery, end quote, was to be fully anticipated given the very nature of presidential records. simply put, the notion that presidential records would contain sensitive information should never have been cause for alarm. this is part of a bid by the trump team to have a special master appointed. a judge holds a hearing on that tomorrow. and this comes on the heels of the very serious claims laid out in the justice department s 36-page filing, including another quote here, evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room at the trump home and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct
shouldn t have triggered an fbi search. let s go the evan perez this morning. good morning, erica. the trump team largely ignores a lot of the allegations that the justice department made in its bombshell filing a couple nights ago. they are saying it should not have been a surprise that there were classified documents found at mar-a-lago. they were considered personal and presidential records. i will read you part of what they say in the court fueliling. that the records contain sensitive information should never have been cause for alarm. they re saying that the justice department cannot be trusted to just look through the documents and sort out what may be presidential privilege, executive privilege, or at attorney/client privilege. they want to appoint a special master to look at the documents and set aside the things that may be considered privileged. so, we expect that this judge is going to take a look at this filing and really maybe ask some questions about what the
league. 9/11 families say trump and others are pocketing blood money. this move is incomprehensible. this is the most evil form of greed that i ve ever witnessed. the fact you are, and even the players, this is blood money that you re taking, the same with him hosting these events. they are trying to sports wash their way through this. they have a very long history of human rights violations not just 9/11, and it s their way of trying to erase that through sports. i mean, i we re going to try to fight that as much as we possibly can because it s absolutely not right. but we start this morning with brand-new cnn polling painting the picture of an electorate that is both divided and depressed ahead of this november s midterm elections. straight to political director who is breaking it down for us. david? abby, we have these brand-new cnn polling numbers conducted looking at the mid-term electorate. let s start with what we call the generic congressional ballot. look a