attested to the fbi that all the records that he had were being kept in a storage room in mar-a-lago. now ourably the most alarming detail in this newly released inventory list. a box found in his office contains, quote, 43 empty folders with classified banners raising big questions about what happened to the classified documents that were at one time inside those folders. in a notice filed with the inventory the justice department says it has already reviewed every item. they add this, quote, all evidence pertaining to the seized items including, but not limited to the nature and manner in which they were stored as well as any evidence with respect to particular documents or items of interest will inform the government s investigation. another key focus today of the investigation how these records which include more than 10,000 non-classified government documents ended up at mar-a-lago, and why these particular records were kept by trump. some of them for more than a year an
florida, and it could be the most expensive natural disaster unlike anything that anyone alive today has ever experienced. top of the hour. hello, everybody. i m cade ballian in for pamela brown and you re live in the cnn newsroom. tonight growing concerns and calls for more answers over what the fbi recovered during their search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago resort. people want a congressional briefing and damage assessment now after the justice department remained eleven sets of classified documents including materials marked with one of the highest levels of classification. some of those document were marked top secret, sensitive compartmented information and that s among the heist designation in terms of the extremely grave damage to national security that could be done if it were to be disclosed so the fact that they are in an unsecure place, guarded with nothing more than a padlock or whatever security that they had in the hotel is deeply alarmin
feds. the democratic chairs of the house intelligence oversight committees want answers over what fallout could await after top-secret documents were found at trump s resort and are asking the director of national intelligence to provide an immediate damage assessment. let s bring in two former trump administration insiders former counterterrorism and covid adviser to mike pence olivia troye and former white house press secretary steph nye grisham. thank you both for being with us this evening. the thing i can t wrap my head around is why a president who notoriously paid little attention to his daily intelligence briefings as reported time and again while he was in office why would he hold on to this stuff and have it around mar-a-lago. you were his press secretary for a period of time. why does he suddenly care about top-secret materials? your guess is as good as mine and i ll leave it up to law enforcement and the investigation to come to that conclusion. there are many t
House this past week, but now the Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee is speaking out. Talked with cnn today. Where does their investigation go now . Well, one of the big things that both the house and Senate Intel Committees are trying to weigh is just how valuable Michael Flynn, the former National Security advisers testimony will be. Of course, the big bombshell at the end of the week is that flynn said he is willing to testify if he is granted immunity for that testimony. Hes offered this up to both of those committees. He has offered it up to fbi and the Justice Department, but it seems as though the committees in the congress are a little skeptical that there will be any real value in flynns testimony, at least to the point where they would be willing to take that immunity. This is what adam schiff, that Ranking Member on the house intel committee, had to stay about it this morning on state of the union. We dont want to do anything that will interfere in any case t
Reporter certainly. That will be a challenge for some of them especially in districts where the president is very popular. If members did not side with him on this. I think the big question right now is will it get to the floor . Thats a decision that Doesnt Reside in the white house. Its really a decision for the majority leaders of the republicans, Kevin Mccarthy a long with the speaker, they run the floor. If they believe it is sort of a doomed bill, theyve got to make a calculation about tip typically you could see them not put it on the floor with that political exposure for each and every member to be recorded on something that went nowhere. Thats typically how this goes. We saw the president saying he wanted a vote. That was a point of leverage. In the time weve been talking about this and when weve been updating our own whip counts and describing the mood and the atmosphere, i can assure you, if there were people in leadership who thought we had that wrong, they would be callin