documents marked top secret, 54 documents marked secret, and 31 marked confidential. they also found more than 48 empty folders marked classified, no info on where the contents of those folders are. they also collected more than 1,000 non-classified documents that do not belong to donald trump, they belong to the government. the inventory describes how the country s most sensitive secrets were tossed in boxes with newspaper clippings and even random items of clothing. some of these documents are so top secret, so tightly restricted, that they are only to be viewed in secure facilities. and this is just the stuff retrieved on august 8th. it does not include the hundreds of other classified files that federal investigators had worked to get back months earlier. joining me now is cnn political correspondent, and cnn judiciary committee and cnn legal analyst, who was house judiciary special council in donald trump s first impeachment trial. i just want to give people an example o
edges up. we ll tell you why that might be good news for your wallet. plus, climate change washing away the flood maps. previously dry areas now under threat. has your home been pushed into a flood zone? hello, and welcome to the lead. i m kaitlan collins in for jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead, and a new detailed look inside what the fbi seized from former president trump s mar-a-lago home last month. a federal judge today unsealed a seven-page inventory of the highly sensitive government documents that trump had in his office and in his storage room, despite one of his lawyers telling the government they had given everything back. mixed in with newspaper clippings, clothes, and gifts, fbi agents found more than 11,000 nonclassified government documents, and more than 100 classified documents. 31 of those marked confidential, 54 marked secret, and 18 marked top secret. plus, 90 empty folders, 48 marked classified. and 42 of those labeled, quote, retur
heavily redacted court document used forjust the search of donald trump s home. tributes paid to nine year old olivia pratt korbel. good evening. it s been confirmed that energy bills will soar by 80% in october for tens of millions of people in england, scotland and wales, causing real hardship for many who are already coping with a steep rise in the cost of living. it s the result of the regulator ofgem increasing its price cap that s the maximum amount that people on a standard variable tariff can be charged per unit of energy. the bbc s business editor, simonjack, reports. abby dezso is a single mum living in ipswich. the energy price rise will hit her hard. she has a part timejob which earns her £1000 a month, but her energy bill is going up from £80 to £250 in october, which she will struggle to find. is there anything you can cut? honestly. . . no. as she looks at her stretched budget, her primary concern is for her children. you don t want them to go without, so
correspondent, andrea mitchell. former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official, chuck rosenberg, now an msnbc contributor. former assistant u.s. attorney and associate independent counsel for the white water investigation, kim whaley, and clint watts, now an msnbc national security analyst. so, ken, what are we learning here about the case that the doj laid out in this affidavit? lindsey, a couple of pig takeaways. one, the doj saying that there are multiple civilian witnesses whose identities they want to protect in this case. not one single informant or confidential source, but many, many people, and that s why they ve asked for all of those names and identities to be redacted. secondly, we re learning new details about the extent of how classified some of the documents were that were found in the origin 15 boxes that were turned over by the trump folks to the archives in january. and it looks like they are some of the most classified documents you can have in the u.s. gove
it s stunning to hear it. it sounds familiar in some ways. talk a lot about these instances in my memoir, where i categorize how every few months or so we would come back to this issue about iran and what to do. i can say mark milley worked for me for nearly 18 months, which was most of trump s tenure that we were together. he never advocated for attacking iran. if anything, trevor, milley, and i were the reluctant warriors urging caution, urging restraint. so, that kind of is what strikes me first. but secondly, it s the nay ch nature of sharing those dalvin cook nature of sharing those documents is illegal and dangerous. that concerns me as well that such things were kept loosely around mar-a-lago. he told fox, there was no document but referenced newspaper stories, magazine clippings. but it sure doesn t sound like he s talking about just a magazine article there. is it clear to you?