nuclear disaster. plus, apple alert. the tech giant warns a security flaw could allow iphones and ipads to get hacked. what should you do right now to protect your devices? welcome to the lead. we start with our politics lead. in the six words sounding new alarms in trump world. documents unsealed by a federal judge related to that fbi raid at mar-a-lago include the phrase, willful retention of national defense information. willful retention of national defense information. legal experts tell cnn that phrase sharpens the focus on the former president as a possible subject of the justice department s criminal investigation. in another trump related investigation, the one down in georgia, a federal judge there ruled that she will not put on hold the ruling that republican senator lindsey graham of south carolina must appear before that fulton county special grand jury next week. the prosecutors said in a filing today that graham s testimony is crucial to the investigation i
even in the library. let s go out front. good evening. i m erica hill, in tonight for erin burnett. out front tonight are all documents accounted for. that s the question tonight after a newly released court filing reveals the fbi s search of mar-a-lago last month recovered 48 empty folders marked as classified information. it s important to note we don t know what was in those folders. what we do know, they were empty, all four dozen of them. according to the seven-page inventory unsealed today they also found press clippings, clothes, gifts, 11,000 non-classified documents, 18 documents marked cop secret, 54 marked secret, and 31 documents marked confidential. there were also an additional 42 empty folders labeled return to staff secretary/military aide. now, keep in mind this trove is on top of the 15 boxes trump s team turned over in january. there were 184 classified documents in those boxes. the former president claims many of the documents are actually protected by e
keilar and those were the words from president biden, taking direct aim at what he calls maga extremism. biden says it is threatening the soul of the nation and fanning the flames of political violence. flanked by marines in the shadow of philadelphia s independence hall, the primetime speech was more than a warning, it was a call to action for voters to make their voices heard in the midterm elections. it may have sounded political, but the white house this morning insists it was, quote, entirely about democracy. here are some highlights. as i stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault. we do ourselves no favor to pretend otherwise. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. they promote authoritarian leaders and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country. maga for
take this country backward. backwards to an america where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. biden slammed what he called trump s threat to democracy, the former president publicly dangled pardons for the rioters who violently stormed the capitol on january 6th, attacking police officers, and threatening the lives of lawmakers at the capitol of both parties. this as two former trump white house lawyers are expected to appear today before a grand jury in d.c. investigating the january 6th attack. plus, significant development surrounding the mar-a-lago search, a federal judge signaled she may release a more detailed inventory of the items seized by the fbi as we wait for her ruling on trump s request for a so-called special master to review those documents for anything that might be privileged lawyer/client communication, let s begin with cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond. jeremy, this was q
during that search. first though, we do want to begin with former white house counsel pat cipollone. his deputy appearing before a january 6 grand jury today. evan perez is outside u.s. district court in washington. this of course separate from the investigation to the handling of classified documents. this relates to january 6th. how significant is the testimony of cipollone and his deputy? reporter: jim, this is a very important testimony that we re going to get from the that the grand jury is going to get from pat cipollone and patrick philbin. these are two men who are inside the white house counsel. they were in a lot of the meetings that the president was organizing, as he was trying to overturn the election. he was trying to find ways to remain in power. and the importance of this grand jury is that this is the grand jury that is going beyond the 850 rioters who have been brought here and are facing charges for the violence that happened at the u.s. capitol. this