engaging in political persecution, but we know a federal judge had to sign off on this search warrant. it wasn t just the fbi acting on its own. and before it was even in front of that judge, the highest levels of the doj including the trump appointed director of the fbi, likely had to approve the action. we also know that the fbi met with trump s legal team in june about white house documents that were being stored at mar-a-lago. so the key question in this mystery now is, what changed between that june meeting and yesterday? it was big enough to compel the fbi to move. cnn s leyla santiago is live outside mar-a-lago. you re learning more about the timeline and what led up to the search. fill us in. it s important to go all the way back to the beginning of the year. january, where we start to see this timeline unfold, when we know that president trump s team was interviewed by the fbi. and that s when they really started to look into what was a lot of records believed to b
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
growing anger and frustration in south texas and around the country following the release of new information and images concerning the law enforcement response to the uvalde school shooting. the latest report spreads blame for the failure to intervene across multiple agencies. senior correspondent casey stegall is in uvalde tonight. good evening, casey. bret, good evening. uvalde s mayor decided to release the body camera footage from the city police and it came after the texas house committee that was tasked with investigating this tragedy made public a 77 page report highlighting a series of failures that morning here. shots fired. get inside. go, go, go. 11:36 a.m. three minutes after the gunman entered robb elementary school, uvalde police are already on scene. one minute later. [gunfire] suspect fires at officers. positioned in the hallway and they retreat. at 11:38. an update goes out over the radio. he is armed inside this building. we have him contained. c
routine traffic stop, which would probably result either in a warning or a citation being issued, turned into a pursuit. as mr. walker turned onto the entrance ramp to route 8 and the shot is fired, that changes the nature of the contact. 40 seconds after the initiation of the traffic stop, a half mile from the location of the traffic stop, you hear the gunshot and everything else i ve just discould have had and, again, that changes the whole nature of the traffic stop. it went from being a routine traffic stop to now a public safety issue. let s go now to cnn correspondent paolo sandoval. the attorney for the walker family says he never shot at officers. tell us more what we re seeing in the newly released body cam video. reporter: jessica, we have seen lately, at least in the last couple of hours, that call for justice and the call for answers is certainly amplified with the release of the video. people outside akron police headquarters here, many people have seen this
more than 1,000 people dead. later this hour we will break down the results from tuesday s primary election. steve kornacki will join us from the big board. the big board. this morning, the house january 6th committee is preparing for its next public hearing, tomorrow, one day after hearing powerful testimony about former president donald trump s efforts to intimidate state lawmakers and election officials into overturning the results from the 2020 creeks. testimony from someone who detailed phone calls from trump and his allies pressuring them to find votes for trump or send fake protesters to washington. the trump team never produced evidence of fraud. he got emotional when he insisted he would method violate his oath of office. for me to do that because somebody just asked me to is foreign to my very being. i will not do it. some of the most emotional testimony came from a former georgia election worker and her mother who have been harassed and threatened after the