former president trump again calling for a special master to intervene after a judge unseals documents regarding the search of his mar-a-lago home. the latest in this legal battle and what we re learning about those classified government secrets. plus, friday free fall, stocks plummeting after fed chair jerome powell promises, quote, forceful and rapid action to try and tame inflation. he says to expect more quick pain ahead. also, cnn rides along with the so-called water police in california. their creative ways to keep homeowners from wasting water amid the devastating drought. and we re going to introduce you to a very special 17-year-old, soaring into the record books after flying solo around the world. he ll join us live. new day starts right now. hello, everyone. good morning. and a warm welcome to your new day. it is saturday, august 27th. hello there boris. good morning, amara. great to be with you as always. up first, we start with donald trump renewing h
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
18 former trump administration officials spoke exclusively with cnn to refute trump s attempted defense for stashing top secret papers at mar-a-lago. and the long-time chief financial officer for the trump organization pleads guilty for his role in a tax fraud scheme. allen weisselberg agreeing to testify against the former president s company but not against trump or his family. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with new moves by a federal judge to give the public more information about the historic fbi search of former president trump s florida home. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider reports on today s important hearing in florida. tonight, a federal judge in florida says he wants at least some portions of the affidavit justifying the mar-a-lago search made public, saying i m not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed. before deciding, magistrate
in support of the request for a search warrant that gave the fbi legal license to enter mrara lag on. on one side of this dispute the doj strenuously opposing the release and on the other side donald trump and a media of organizations including nbc news urging that the affidavit be made public. there was little to no chance that the judge reinhart would approve the release of the affidavit and at the conclusion of today s hearing that judge reinhart was, in fact, open to releasing a redacted version of it and asked the department of justice to submit a proposal for what a redacted version might look like by next thursday at which point he will make his ruling and it will feature counterintelligence jay brat and he attended the team deeply involved in this case. he told the court that the investigation is still in its early stages and that the affidavit needed to be contained under wraps because it contained sensitive information in a unique case with national security overton
tonight, the mar-a-lago affidavit is providing more clarity about why the justice department authorized the unprecedented search of a former president s home. the affidavit underscoring the fbi s fear that highly sensitive material might still be on the premises after dozens of classified documents already had been retrieved. here s cnn s justice correspondent, jessica schneider. startling new details about the hundreds of pages of documents former president trump kept at mar-a-lago for months as the national archives tried to get them back. the top-secret stuff and compartment can get people killed. it is completely alarming. reporter: the now unsealed affidavit revealing 14 of the 15 boxes that the archives revealed in january of 2022 contained classified information, 184 unique documents in all, 67 marked confidential, 92 marked secret, and 25 marked top-secret. prosecutors said of most significant concern was that highly classified records were unfolded, intermixed