avril haines wrote in a letter to lawmakers on write, haines said her office will, quote, lead an intelligence community assessment of the potential risk to national security that would result from the disclosure of the relevant documents. house oversight committee chair carolyn maloney and chair adam schiff had asked for a security damage assessment in the days following the fbi search. meanwhile, president biden mocked donald trump s claim that trump had declassified all of the documents he brought with him to his mar-a-lago home after leaving the presidency. trump said he de classified all of the document. could you have declassified them all. i just want to know how you could declassify everything in the world. i can do everything. come on. the president later gave a more nuanced response saying the doj is handling it.
more. reporter: new developments this weekend in the investigation of donald trump s handling or possible mishandling of classified documents. the top u.s. intelligence official says that intel agencies are now conducting a damage assessment of the documents that trump took with him from the white house to mar-a-lago. avril haines, the director of national intelligence, told u.s. lawmakers in a letter that her team and the justice department are reviewing the materials that were recovered from mar-a-lago to see what is still classified. she also said that once that s done, her office will, quote, lead an intelligence community assessment of the potential risks to national security that would result from the disclosure of the relevant documents. now, this all comes shortly after the doj released the fbi affidavit that investigators used to secure that historic search warrant of mar-a-lago.
the top u.s. intelligence official says intel agencies are conducting a damage assessment of the documents that trump took with him when the white house to mar-a-lago. the director of national intelligence told u.s. lawmakers in a letter that her team and justice department are reviewing the materials recovered from mar-a-lago to see what is still classified. she also said once that is done, her office will, quote, lead an intelligence community assessment of the potential risks to national security that would result from the disclosure of the relevant documents. now, this all can comes shortly after the doj released the fbi affidavit that investigators used to secure that historic search warrant of mar-a-lago. doj refused to release the affidavit but they were ordered by a federal judge to make public a partially un redacted version and that affidavit once we got to see what was inside of it, it showed how investigators
that trusted, like that big sister, that mentor, all along knowing she was preparing them to engage in these sexual acts or to be victimized by epstein and his pals. we should also note this wasn t just jeffrey epstein. other powerful men were involved in this illegal sex ring. another epstein accuser, annie farmer, said this morning she really hopes that the d.a. s office will in her words continue to investigate so others will be held accountable for the ways they abuse people. and you also heard virginia giuffre just say this is just the beginning. how likely is it that this is just the beginning in terms of charges against others? i hope it is just the beginning. i hope you see others brought to justice, that we see others prosecuted, indicted, and tried in the way that we saw maxwell. we know that the prosecutors in this case have said this is an ongoing investigation. and some pretty powerful names
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