this water system to survive. this will undoubtedly affect u.s. prices for consumers. translator: i try to stay positive and it helps me to survive. it is thursday, august 18, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast where donald trump and his allies are trying to get control of the narrative. and at least one of his many legal challenges. the former president is said to be considering releasing surveillance video of the search at his mar-a-lago residence. some want to include it in campaign style ads to fire up trump s base. others say it could backfire when the public sees the shear volume of material seized. trump has already admitted he did not comply with the fbi s request to turn off the cameras during the search. here is his son eric on fox news. you still have the surveillance tape, is that correct? are you allowed to share that with the country? absolutely, at the right time. while we wait for trump to make up his mind, the federal magis
collins in washington. reporter: good morning, christine. we are now learning that former president trump and his legal team are considering releasing the surveillance footage from those several hours when fbi agents were at mar-a-lago conducting that search of course of his property looking for classified information that they believe he took with him from his time in the white house to when he went to mar-a-lago as he left the day he was inaugurated. there were major questions of course this entire justice department investigation over how this information was handled and what exactly was taken down there and we re now told that despite that day when fbi agents showed up and they asked the trump team on the ground to turn off the surveillance cameras, they did not do so and they are now in control of several hours of footage of them actually being there conducting this search. and we re told that they are now considering releasing it, though there are some inside the form