good friday evening to you. jim sciutto here sitting in for anderson. tonight making sense of the unprecedented look we ve just gotten into what until now was almost unimaginable, the criminal investigation of a former president. it follows the equally unprecedented court-approved search of a former president s home. today under orders from the same federal judge who approved that search warrant, the justice department released the affidavit backing the warrant. the document laying out the government s case that a search could yield evidence of a crime or even multiple crimes. it is heavily redacted to protect sources, potential witnesses, as well as the ongoing investigation of not just the president but also, quoting the document now, all potential criminal confederates. that said, there is much it does reveal, starting with what investigators believe they would find beyond the 15 boxes that were returned to the government in january. quoting again, there is probable cause
well, you re welcome, we the travel east point about taking the abstracting concretizing it, they re not thought experiments anymore, it s really humans lives and it s real peoples lives. i do think that public opinion is more on the side of common sense on these questions than the republican party s, and we ll see how that plays out. we will see, indeed, i m a sun studio, come back soon. i will. thanks for joining us this hour, tonight, as donald trump s former s vice president considers talking to the january 6th investigation, his former lawyer testifies before an atlanta grand jury, and his longtime cfo prepares to plead guilty in turn on the trump organization. despite the presidents considerable legal woes, he can t seem to find any qualified attorneys to represent him. oh speak to caroline, who joins us live. then we go down to florida, where republican governor ron desantis has given some new lessons for revisionist history, and christian nationalism. new y
qualified attorneys to represent him. carol lenning, who joins us live. then we go down to florida, where republican governor ron desantis has given some new lessons for revisionist history, and christian nationalism. new yorker writer, and dean of the jelani cobb will be in the studios to discuss, and president biden cancels promising jobs of the future, that never arrived. but we start tonight with mounting investigations into the former president of the united states. after last night s election in wyoming, donald trump appears poised to gain some allies in congress. but it comes as trump is quickly losing friends, basically everywhere else. today, trump s former president mike pence said he d consider talking to the january 6th committee. just this state on the january 6th, if they were to call you on the committee to come testify, would you be agreeable? if there is an invitation to participate, i consider it. any invitation to be directed to me, i d have to re
of the search affidavit should stay secret or go public, and president joe biden unveils his student loan forgiveness plan canceling thousands of dollars of debt for millions of borrowers. we ll break down what it means for the u.s. economy as so many americans are drowning in debt. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. search and rescue efforts are continuing in ukraine tonight after that deadly attack on a train station. president volodymyr zelenskyy revealing a short time ago the death toll has climbed for 22 including an 11-year-old child. ukrainian officials that russia launched multiple missile strikes as vladimir putin s war hits the half-year mark. sam kyly is on the ground in ukraine and filed this report? dawn, ukrainian independence day outside kharkiv, marking 31 years of freedom from the soviet union, but not from russia. flags, but not pe
i m simone sanders, and i have something to say. d i have something to say what s a weekend has been. it started with former president trump telling the world the fbi had entered his florida home mar-a-lago. and now, we are getting a look at the search warrant that started at all after the department of justice and sealed it. now that weren t told us where agents searched in the home, but it is what they seized in the roughly 20 boxes of government records that she really need to pay attention to. so, what was it? well. we have 11 sets of documents altogether. three sets classified as confidential, three classified secret, and for top secret. and one set of t s s c i. that sounds for top secret sensitive compartmentalized information. that is the queen mother of all classified documents. we also learned this week that this search warrant traces back to the very top of the department of justice, attorney general merrick garden linda himself. i personally approved the decisio