house speaker nancy pelosi. paul pelosi sought of the hospital. neurosurgeon dr. sanjay gupta joins us to talk about what mr. pelosi s recovery from a skull fracture bhmight look like. also the president and two former presidents helping races for congress, not just within grabs, but within reach for either party. we begin with breaking news on cnn reporting on how the justice department could proceed with cases against former president trump if he decides to run. this as surrogates are again loudly hinting for president again. cnn s sara murray has the breaking news. she joins us now. what are you learning? anderson, our sources are telling our team that the justice department is considering whether a special counsel might be necessary to oversee the investigation surrounding donald trump if he decides to run for president in 2024, which as you ve mentioned is a thing his allies are talking about, a thing that could be potentially an imminent announcement. and so they re l
stumping in arizona warning voters that conspiracy theorists and election deniers are putting democracy on the brink, the former president using a heckler to make his case. watch this. this is part of what happens in our politics these days. we get distracted. we got one person yelling and suddenly everybody s yelling. you get one tweet that s stupid and suddenly everybody s obsessed with the tweet. we can t fall for that. we have to stay focused. obama is not the only former president on the campaign trail. form are president trump is also set to hold a rally in sioux city, iowa. he s not the only potential republican candidate in the state. mike pence, nikki haley, mike p pompeo have made appearances, maybe even testing the waters for themselves. jeff, a lot of airplane traffic that is happening there. reporter: there certainly is. iowa is not the hottest 2022 battleground but it s the opening bell of the 2024 presidential race. this republican wave of optimism is swe
fbi search of former president donald trump s home. now we are learning more about the events leading up to that search. two sources telling cnn, in june a trump lawyer signed a letter saying all documents marked as classified had been given back. that s what they re saying. but monday s search revealed mar-a-lago was still harboring top secrets, removing 11 sets of top secret gdocuments. we now know the justice department has probable cause to investigate three possible federal crimes, violations of the espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. as of now no one has been charged with a crime. trump s first line of defense was to suggest that the fbi may have planted evidence while in his home. nobody has presented any evidence of that. plan b involved claiming that trump had declassified documents before the fbi seized them that the espionage act does not hinge on whether documents are classified. so the latest move is to blame the gov
release. as we have seen, just because trump says it doesn t mean it s true. he had the documents since monday. he could have released them at any point himself. he hasn t. so as of now his attorney says it doesn t appear that they would object to the release. attorney general merrick garland says he personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant for trump s mar-a-lago home. also developing overnight, potentially significant, very significant reporting by the washington post, this is what it says, quote, classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items fbi agents sought in a search of former president trump s flores dense on monday. that s according to people familiar with the investigation. now, this could elevate the concern over these documents in an enormous way. joining us now is washington post intelligence and national security report er shane harris part of the team that broke this story. explain more what you and your team found
This fall I slowed down, stopped and lingered in a space I usually power walk through at Denver International Airport. The walls just over the sky bridge and down the escalator to Concourse A featured about a dozen portraits by award-winning photographer Jason Myers of combat veterans waiting to sing to passersby what they struggle […]