on the political front, our correspondents have the latest on tomorrow s two big primaries for prominent republicans on opposing sides of the trump divide. january 6th vice chair liz cheney and former vice presidential nominee sarah palin. we begin with the fallout from the fbi s search of former president trump s home in mar-a-lago. joining me, nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken delanian. ken, the latest on the investigation, the increased security, the concern about threats to the fbi and to law enforcement, the criticism of merrick garland, all of it. the most disturbing part is the fbi and dhs issued a joint intelligence bulletin yesterday saying they had seen a massive uptick in specific and credible threats to federal law enforcement. this was reflecting reporting we did last week and open source intelligence firms are also seeing this in message boards and chat rooms online. we re not just talking rhetoric here. we re talking specific threats. they re eve
declared brain dead. she led a life of public highs and lows, but through it all she thrived on screen and strived to stay hopeful. he s currently breathing with the help of a ventilator. the question is looming over investigators right now as to what drove this 24-year-old suspect that s been identified as matar from new jersey to charge that stage. i m alex marquardt in washington in for pamela brown this evening. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with the nation s top intelligence official, the director of national intelligence being asked for a damage assessment on classified documents that were removed from former president donald trump s palm beach resort, mar-a-lago. the democratic chairs of the house intelligence and oversight committees wrote together in a letter that quote, the former president s conduct has potentially put our national security at grave risk, and they want an appropriate classified briefing on the conduct of the damage ass
team now filing a response to that fbi search for all of those boxes of classified material in his florida home two weeks ago. we ll start with the fbi seizure of classified documents at mar-a-lago. the former president wants a neutral third party called a special master to review the documents taken by the fbi and return anything not within the scope of the search warrant. we re also getting new information about how much sensitive data was at mar-a-lago and the concern at the national archives months ago, which set off this entire investigation. all right, so, let s get to cnn s senior crime and justice reporter, kaitlan. we know in january, the national archives retrieved 15 boxes of material from mar-a-lago, and we are learning, thanks thao the reporting, about exactly how much classified info was in those boxes. one of the things we re learning now is because the national archives is making public a letter back in may that fills out our timeline a little bit more,
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