a fiction you called it. yeah. look. it s if he has declassified hundreds, maybe thousands of documents that he took to the residence because he worked very hard on this at night as we all know, over four years, the media should be filing freedom of information act requests for all documents declassified by donald trump pursuant to this standing order. i d love to see what gets produced. and we know from seeing the receipt of items taken from mar-a-lago that there was a box labeled as sci, sensitive compartmented information. can you think of any reason a former president would have to have sensitive compartmented information in his residence? no, look, in a normal administration a president is quite likely to write memoirs, he ll want and deserves access to highly classified information, arrangements are made for former presidents and indeed for former cabinet officers who leave under happy circumstances, that scifs are set up that they can go to and look at this c
reports that attorney general merrick garland deliberated for weeks before approving the warrant application. now, garland faces an even more daunting and consequential decision, that is whether to pursue criminal charges against the former president. now that decision is amplified as an fbi organization representative warns that growing calls for violence against law enforcement are, quote, real and imminent. the fbi investigating an unprecedented number of threats to bureau personnel and property in the wake of the court authorized search of mar-a-lago. also this morning, rudy giuliani firing back after prosecutors in georgia tell him that he is a target of the special grand jury there. we ll have more on that in a moment. let s begin this morning, here in washington, cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz tracking all the latest developments. the justice department is making clear just how serious this investigation is. what do we know about where it sta
sacheen littlefeather for abuse she endured at the 1973 oscars. she was heckled while on stage on behalf of marlon brando to protest native american mistreatment in the film industry. these are the 5 things to know for your new day. more on these stories on day on cnn and cnn.com and download the 5 things podcast every morning. cnn s coverage kins right now. . good morning, everyone. i m bianna golodryga. i m jim sciutto. this morning, the justice department on high alert. their focus now protecting highly sensitive information surround the documents seized from former president trump s mar-a-lago home. they want to prevent the release of the affidavit which lays out the case for searching the florida estate, which they say includes witnesses interviewed already by the government. this comes as we are learning new details about the leadup to that search. the wall street journal