representatives all the time that they thought was appropriate to comply with their legal obligations to return official documents, including potentially classified records. i think it is really important to highlight the fact that one of trump s own lawyers conceded to the washington post yesterday that the warrant, which the lawyer saw, indicated the warrant was seeking information relating to classified information. the president is in significant legal jeopardy if he retained classified information at mar-a-lago and especially if he failed to turn it over to the department and the fbi all these months later. david, since we have you, let s get this out there right now, because people have been asking questions comparing this to the situation, the investigation surrounding hillary clinton s emails. how is this different? we don t have enough factual information yet to compare all the many ways this may be different, john. the clinton investigation stands on its own.
more inside as to what led to the approval for that search warrant and the what the underlying basis for this criminal investigation is. abby, we ve just hit noon. we re expecting more activity on the court s docket very shortly. we ll keep checking it and get back to you as soon as something is filed. jessica, stand by. we ll get back with you as soon as you have that document. joining me around the table is elliott williams and cnn legal and national security analyst carrie cordero. while everybody is hitting refresh right now, we have a moment where the judge in this case has said, government, i agree with your decision to redact certain elements of it, but yet he still sees fit to release this document. elliot, what sddoes that tell y? it s important to take a step back and what the law governing all of this is. in criminal proceedings, documents are presumed proceedings are presumed to be open, right? that s put in the constitution. things should be open. we have a
ndi, meaning national defense information. let s get to jessica schneider. the biggest revelations from this redacted affidavit? so, a lot of intricate and quite frankly startling details about the hundreds of pages of documents that the national archives worked for months to get back from mar-a-lago. so, most of this 37-page affidavit addresses the 15 boxes of material they finally got back in january of this year. 14 of those 15 boxes contained classified information. here s how it is broken down. 184 unique documents bearing classification markings, 67 of those marked confidential, 92 marked secret. 25 marked top secret. particularly alarming to the intelligence experts we ve been hearing from is there were, in fact, hcs markings on some of these documents, meaning that s information actually greened from human sources, that if that information is revealed, it could endanger the lives of people secretly working around the world for the government. these documents were
we begin with sunlen who is outside the supreme court. what are you seeing? reporter: jim, it certainly is a very tense moment right here on the steps of the supreme court. i want to show you the scene playing out now at this moment. i ll take you to the crowd here in the last few minutes we ve seen really this conversation between both sides break out. the police have moved in some barricades, some police fences and they have separated the two sides. over here you have a side who is not in support of friday s supreme court decision and over here pro-life and we have seen them yelling back and forth. i want to just give you a flavor of the crowd at the moment out here on the steps of the supreme court. abort the court. abort the court. reporter: although they are vocal and loud and are certainly taking issue with each other we have seen these protests remain largely peaceful throughout the day, jim. we are seeing this crowd swell in size a couple hundred out here tod
former president donald trump was at the center of an attempted coup. plus, the president of uk ukraine pleads for a modern defense system as russia pummels the country. we are live with more. it is being called an important step in the right direction. a bipartisan group of u.s. senators say they have reached an agreement, in principle, on gun safety legislation. the deal includes more funding for things like mental health and school safety resources. a so-called red flag provision and enhanced review process for buyers under the age of 21, and penalties for so-called straw purchasing. the proposal has support from 10 republicans and would be critical to defeat a filibuster in the senate. if the deal becomes law, it would be the biggest gun reform legislation in decades, by far. that sneers, just 19 days after a gunman opened fire inside an elementary school involving in uvalde texas, killing 19 children and two teachers. listen to this. since that tragic day, there have