afghanistan, we ll look at how life has changed under the taliban s reign. announcer: live, from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we now know why the fbi searched former u.s. president s donald trump s mar-a-lago home, according to a warrant unsealed on friday, agents were looking for evidence of possible crimes including possible violations of the espionage act related to the gathering, less or redestruction of u.s. defense information. also learning details about some of the items recovered during monday s search. a property receipt also unsealed on friday reveals that fbi agents seized 11 sets of classified documents including one marked top secret sci, one of the highest levels of classification. they also seized four sets of top secret documents, three marked secret and three marked confidential. cnn s katelyn polantz explains what this tells us about the on going investigation. reporter: on friday, a federal court in florida released seve
unsealed by the justice department. among those documents, the search warrant and property receipt of once the fbi was after, both obtained by nbc, and confirming an investigation into potential crimes associated with violations of the espionage act. after the agency removed nearly two dozen boxes of material, 11 sets of qualified documents, some of them top secret. were removed from trump s mar-a-lago office six days ago. two months after a trump lawyer signed a letter saying all classified material had been returned to the government. that is according to new reporting from the new york times, citing four sources familiar with the letter. regardless, over the last week, their response from republican politicians has ranged from uncritical solidarity with trump, to an increasingly marked silence, as the depth of the implication becomes too extreme to dance around. of course, that hasn t stopped many from trying, as some republican lawmakers continue to demonize federal law e
urgency of the unprecedented search of a former president s home. this also raises the stakes of his standoff with attorney general merrick garland, who revealed that he personally signed off on the search warrant. former president trump says he too wants the searched documents to be made public but we ll see if his lawyers contest it in court. kaitlan collins joins us. the wall street journal a couple of minutes ago, what are they reporting? alex leery at the wall street journal claims to have seen a good amount of the documents here that would be within this search warrant case. the search warrants itself as well as the receipt handed to donald trump and his attorneys when the fbi left, seizing items. specifically, the journal is reporting that it is 11 sets of classified documents that were removed from mar-a-lago on monday. if we break it down, if you look in the story, it says one set of documents marked as various classified tssci documents, that s sensitive com
the house has just sealed a critical win for the democrats. giving final congressional approval to a landmark climate, health care and tax bill and sending it to president biden to sign into law. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re following major breaking news. a federal judge unsealing the mar-a-lago search warrant a little while ago at the request of the u.s. justice department. there s a lot to unpack this hour. let s go to katelyn polance. what does the fbi say they found in the search? i m looking at the itemized list handed to former donald trump s lawyers whenever the fbi left and it is 33 items ultimately that were seized from mar-a-lago as possible evidence of crime. among that list there are 11 sets of documents that appear to be classified or confidential at some level in the u.s. government. in one there s a box of documents noted that has various classified documents inc
roger goodell in front of house lawmakers responding to reports of one team s toxic work culture, which includes allegations of sexual harassment and the no-show witness who may soon be getting a subpoena. we have a little bit of everything this afternoon. i m hallie jackson in washington. we are joined by mike memoli the at the white house and senior analyst ron insana. we just heard from the president. this new proposal. talk about where it goes from here. reporter: maybe, but it seems unlikely based on the initial reaction we re getting from capitol hill especially. the president if you want to look and explain the urgency from the president, you only need to look at a new university poll that was just released in the last hour as well. the presiden his approval rating at 35%. 68% of americans saying that the high cost of gas is a major problem for them. and that they are making adjustments in their household spending because of it. this is a president that has been deal