if you are currently advising or representing the ex president. as the new york times pushes this weekend, quote, a dark joke has begun circulating among lawyers following the many legal travails of former president trump. maga actually stands for, making attorney, get attorneys. one of trump s most recent attorneys, a woman named christina bob, who he apparently hired because he admired her work as a tv pundit, has now retained the legal counsel of her own for the new york times. she reportedly signed a letter back in june, claiming that she and other lawyers had conducted a thorough search of mar-a-lago, and that no classified documents were made on the premises to the rest of their knowledge. something the fbi would later determine is not true, when they executed that search warrant on trump s property last month, and seized 100 more classified documents, including some more top secret, and at least one reportedly related to nuclear secrets. trump s coup plotting lawyers are also
national archives is making public a letter back in may that fills out our timeline a little bit more, john solomon, a conservative reporter, posted this publicly last night, and this may letter, it is from the national archives to one of donald trump s lawyers handling this document issue, these privilege issues. his name is evan corcoran. and essentially, it outlines a lot of the back and forth they had in april and may where the biden administration was giving them a lot of opportunities to help recover these documents and talk to them in different ways, and the highlights here, there are new details that are being shared by the archives in this letter that s now public. that includes that there were more than 100 classified documents totaling more than 700 pages that were in those january boxes that were sent back to the national archives that had been kept at mar-a-lago or taken there after the trump presidency, and that included documents that were so sensitive that they were mar
for donald trump s mar-a-lago. and with disturbing new fallouts because of violent threats now being made by the president s supporters. the fbi and other law enforcement begins on alert. warnings of a new government bulletin about online and other threats. those violent posts attacking the president s position to get a warrant to search mar-a-lago one week ago today. but the new reporting does help to explain this unprecedented step. cnn has learned trump s attorney signed a letter back in june verifying no more classified information was at mar-a-lago. but the fbi and trump came to believe that was a lie. last month 11 sets of classified documents were removed from that very same mar-a-lago. with me, cnn s indicate lynne polantz. elliot williams and the former director of communications for national intelligence, john turner. an attorney signs a letter
europe with live reports from made grid and the cnn weather cen center . live from cnn centre, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin with more fallout from the fbi search at donald trump s florida estate. sources now telling cnn that one of the former president s lawyers signed a letter back in june saying there were no more classified information stored at mar-a-lago but of course we learned earlier this week this federal agents recovered 11 sets of classified documents during their search including several marked top secret. meanwhile two high ranking house democrats are now asking intelligence officials for a damage assess themenment of the documents. writing that the former president s conduct has potentially put our national security at grave risk. all this comes as the fbi is
celebrations are under full swing. we ll look at their 75 years of independence. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin with more fallout from the fbi search of donald trump s florida estate. sources tell us one of former president trump s lawyers signed a letter back in june saying there was no more classified information stored at mar-a-lago. we learned earlier this week federal agents uncovered 11 sets of documents including 2 with top secret. they want damage assessments of the seized documents. the chair s writing that, quote,