hello, everybody. welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. a busy day in the republican race for president. in the next two hours, two new candidates as the field grows to ten. that s ankeney, iowa, where mike pence will announce his candidacy for the republican normination next hour. and in fargo, north dakota, the first lady is about to introduce the government nor. he, too, will enter the republican race for president. that will bring the field to ten. we believe these are likely the final two entries in the crowded republican field. we have reporters to bringout latest. let s start in iowa where mike pence will make it official next hour. what are we going to see? reporter: you re going to see in about an hour this official in-person rally for mike pence. this is the kickoff for his iowa campaign, where his campaign says they have to lean all in. this is where they will make their mark or be allowed to continue. and they plan on try too good that by go
and welcome to cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. today, president biden is going to meet with leaders at the white house. doj signaled that it is going to fight republicans over the committee probes into biden s past. we have a team covering developments. we have phil mattingly at the white house, and manu raja at capitol hill. give us the latest on what the justice department is telling house republicans? well, we didn t expect that the justice department would hand over evidence into the series of ongoing criminal investigations, but in this letter to house chairman jim jordan, the department of justice says that they are not going to comply with a broad request of a broad number of matters, but they believe that oversight is important, and they want to cooperate, but they want to balance it with the ongoing need of ongoing investigations. but jordan made it clear, he wants to find out how they are handling a series of investigations into former president trump and c
stages. meanwhile, they are busy redacting parts of the affidavit used to search mar-a-lago. the judge saying that there should be at least some portions of the affidavit that can be unsealed. the government must hand over a productive urgent by thursday. trump says, he wants the halting out in the open, at least that is what he is saying publicly. in court, his lawyers did not take a stand one way or the other in the uncertain process. well, trump says this is all about transparency. you have to ask yourself, what does he have to gain? the washington post reports, quote, people who have conferred with trump in recent days said the former president believes that any information made public about the investigation into his handling of classified material will rile his supporters, ultimately benefiting him politically. there you have it. trump once again leading into division, anti government sentiment among his base to secure their support, no matter what happens next. joining
want an intelligence damage assessment. and some republicans are digging into a new tactic to question whether the documents are actually that sensitive. we re on top of all of the latest. plus, a federal judge ruled that republican senator lindsey graham must testify in georgia s investigation of trump s efforts to overturn the election. graham s attorney has asked the judge to quash his subpoena. we will have more on that. and barricades lining the headquarters here in washington, d.c. as as the agency faces an unprecedented number of threats. let s begin with the mar-a-lago search, cnn s caitlin poll la polantz about all over this. that s right, alex, there may have been different motivations but bipartisan calls for transparency for people on the hill to really learn more about why the search was needed and what was found in those boxes removed from mar-a-lago. so, over the weekend, we had two house chairs, committee chairs, both democrats asking the director of nati
information. not where you want that information. good morning, and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, august 23rd. let s start with the news. we begin with that reporting on what sparked the fbi search for classified materials at mar-a-lago two weeks ago. sources tell the new york times the government has recovered more than 300 documents marked as classified from donald trump so far. those documents returned in january included more than 150 classified documents. according to the times, quote, the number ignited intense concern at the justice department and helped trigger the criminal investigation that led fbi agents to swoop into in to mar-a-lago this month seeking to recover more. multiple people briefed on the matter tell the times the former president personally went through 15 boxes before handing them over in january. the paper quotes, reports quote, the highly sensitive nature of some of the material in the boxes prompted archives officials to refer