ga and good evening, i m erin burnett. trump investigated for violating the espionage act. yes, that is just one of the crimes former president trump is under investigation for by the department of justice tonight. obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records are also on the list. now just to be clear, when you hear the word espionage, you might say, wait, espionage? here s what it specifically relates to. i ll quote for you. information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the united states or to the advantage of any foreign nation. and as the warrant, the unsealed warrant now states, the property to be seized includes, and just reading here and you can see on your screen as well, information including communications in any form regarding the retrieval, storage or transmission of national defense information or classified material. and that is why the fbi searched mar-a-lago on monday. and we now also know what the fbi took
reporter: we ve learned from multiple sources that the person is ricky shiffer. we are trying to find out what kind of connection he has with right-wing extremist groups. what happened was at the cincinnati field office of the fbi. he walked in there, according to our sources, armed with an ar-15 style rifle and nail gun and tried to breach that office. an alarm was sounded. he was pursued by law enforcement not just on the federal side but local and state as well. there was a standoff for several hours in a rural area of ohio which ended when law enforcement tried to have nonlethal ways of bringing him in, tried to negotiate with him, but then he was killed in the standoff when none of that was working. like you said, we have come across a user account on donald trump s media site, truth social, bearing the same name and authorities have not confirmed it is his account but we have one source telling josh campbell there is a government i.d. matching the same picture. in at
good evening, after days of increasingly violent rhetoric against the fbi, right wing social media and elsewhere, in the wake of the api search of the former presidents mention and attempts to discredit the bureau by republican lawmakers from several cable channels, we have seen the first deadly consequences. and armed men killed in a shootout after trying to beach the fbi cincinnati office, somebody whose name is on the social media account spelling out in vivid detail the war he apparently was launching. cnn s brynn gingras is reporting on the deeply troubling story with the latest. brynn, what happened and what are you learning about the suspect? anderson, we learned from multiple sources that the suspect is ricky shiffer, 42 years old. investigators are trying to figure out what connection he had with right extremist groups. what happened earlier today is that the cincinnati field office of the fbi, ricky shiffer walked in there, armed with an ar-15 style rifle and a na
the washington post could explain the fbi s sense of urgency to do this search. the post reports that federal agents were looking for classified documents related to nuclear weapons. cnn hasn t independently confirmed that. this is a fast-moving story. we re covering it all. let s go first to cnn s katelyn polantz with more on this deadline. trump said release the documents, and i m quoting there. this was after the attorney general said, and i m paraphrasing now, tell the judge you want them released and they can be. so what is trump s team waiting for? that is a great question. we too are waiting to see what is going on, clearly everybody is in a wait-and-see position right now. we re keeping an eye on the court record to see exactly what formal position donald trump and his team will take in court. it very well could be different from what he s saying on social media. but we re also watching the time here. there is a deadline set by the judge of 3:00. that is the tim
were there at 5:30 in the morning. who gets held accountable for that? laura: we don t know who leaked the opinion and nobody s interested in finding that out. rachel tonight, sean and will pick up where you left off. on laura ingraham and this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. the biden justice department is getting so desperate they ve now gone nuclear. the angle will explain in moments. one fbi agent swept into mar-a-lago and monday, they were met by president trump s attorney. if she s in moments with response to merrick garland. but first, spin cycle crash, that s tonight s focus of tonight s angle. can you imagine what president xi or putin or terrorists who wish to strike against america? this is the america that they use to fear. to speak i personally approve the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the justice department and of our democracy. upholding the rule of law