boxes retrieved from mar-a-lago in january. quoting page 8 here, the boxes contained newspapers, magazines, printed news articles, photos, miscellaneous printouts, notes, presidential correspondence, presidential records, and quote, a lot of classified records. most significant heerkre, the concern that highly classified records were unfolded and intermixed with the other records, and otherwise inappropriately identified. let s go now to cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez. investigators listed the kinds of classified documents they thought could still be on premise there at mar-a-lago. right. and this is the reason. this document is the reason why the fbi conducted that extraordinary search and seizure at the former president s mohom more than two weeks ago. it goes to the documents that were found in the initial 15 boxes that were retrieved by the national archives, earlier this year. they were brought back to the national archives and in it, you know, when they s
our house and coming our way really quickly. forced to flee. thousands of acres burn outside yosemite park. firefighters try to beat back the flames. and deadly heat continues to punish the country. 90 million people are suffering in scorching temperatures. many areas hitting the triple digits. newsroom starts now. hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this sunday. i m fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour with new developments in the january 6 investigation. today republican liz cheney, the vice chair for the committee, not only put ginni thomas, the wife of u.s. supreme court justice clarence thomas, on notice that she could be subpoenaed to testify but cheney also accused former president trump of serious misconduct and dereliction of duty and says the committee is not ruling out recommending criminal charges against him. do you believe that your committee has successfully made the case that donald trump committed crimes and, if so, which ones? we
president trump, it can happen to all americans without cause. very little they can do here given they ve lostthality battles for years in court. ultimately democrats won, which is why they have the returns and why they re still in power in the house taking action to release them. manu, what a night and what a beginning. we know a couple of days, thank you so much for your reporting as always. i want to bring in and turn to our political commentators here at cnn. also norm eisen, cnn s legal analyst, and also a former house judiciary counsel in trump s first impeachment trial. also we have rust buttener, the investigative reporter for the new york times. i want to begin with you, because you have extraordinary expertise specifically as it relates to trump s taxes. you took a deep dive into some of those taxes back in 2020 and now we re waiting for any moment maybe it ll take days to get information. i m wondering what do you think so far about what we ve learned
legal analyst, and former house judiciary counsel in olivia troy, former adviser to vice president mike pence. norm, it s worse than we thought. if you just look at the numbers that evan just laid out, and i think they bear repeating so i m going to say them again. 184 unique documents that were classified. 67 of them marked as confidential. 92 as secret. 25 marked as top secret. i mean, and that s just the unredacted part that we ve just found out. what did you see in here? i also honed in, alisyn, on that paragraph 47 of the affidavit, and three other reflections for you, and i was with you and victor when the search warrant was first unsealed, and we talked about how much more damaging the affidavit could be. three other reflections, first, the categories of this information, you know, i had
it killed itself. but we told you from the very beginning just expose it. just expose it. never back down. never give up. and this thing will implode. what are the implications for bannon, the house select committee, and for ump did you? let s talk about it with cnn legal analyst and house judiciary counsel ambassador norman eisen. let s talk about what this does mean. on one hand he has this plan detailed in this book peril. he seems to say the biden administration is illegitimate. we just exposed it. brianna, thanks for having me back on the program. the ramifications are serious for bannon and even more serious for donald trump. don t accept that after the fact spin on bannon s podcast. we re going to kill it in the crib. and his public statements like all hell is going to break