ga and good evening, i m erin burnett. trump investigated for violating the espionage act. yes, that is just one of the crimes former president trump is under investigation for by the department of justice tonight. obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records are also on the list. now just to be clear, when you hear the word espionage, you might say, wait, espionage? here s what it specifically relates to. i ll quote for you. information the possessor has reason to believe could be used to the injury of the united states or to the advantage of any foreign nation. and as the warrant, the unsealed warrant now states, the property to be seized includes, and just reading here and you can see on your screen as well, information including communications in any form regarding the retrieval, storage or transmission of national defense information or classified material. and that is why the fbi searched mar-a-lago on monday. and we now also know what the fbi took
. happening now, tens of thousands of people are on the national mall here in d.c. to rally in support of israel and condemn anti-semitism. security is at the highest levels as tensions over the israel-hamas war surge. in the meantime president biden express something new optimism about the hostages that hamas is holding. he says a deal is going to happen. we have new details on the negotiations. and we know they throw insults, but now elbows? one congressman accusing former speaker mccarthy of that. all of this three days before the government shuts down. we are following these major developing stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central. for 239 hostages being held in gaza, today is day 39 in captivity. a short time ago, president biden said a deal to release them is, quote, going to happen. a senior u.s. official telling cnn israel and hamas are moving closer to a deal for release, which could include a day s long pause in fighting. right now in
white house. over 100 documents with classification markings, comprising more than 700 pages. some include the highest levels of classification, including special access program, s.a.p. materials. that security designation is reserved for the most sensitive secrets in the government. it restricts access to the smallest number of individuals possible, only those with a need to know. the letter from the archives was released by a representative for trump himself. this past january, the trump team handed over 15 boxes of documents to the archives. the new york times reports they included documents from the cia, the national security agency, and the fbi. according to the paper, mr. trump went through the boxes himself before turning them over. even after that, trump still had not returned everything sought by the government. months later, in june, more documents were given back, and then, in that search on august 8th, the fbi seized 11 more sets of classified materials. let s g
collection our government has. most typically electronic type of surveillance communications intercepts through, for example, the national security agency s activities or cia activities. so the fact that he had sci material out in the wild, so to speak, at risk is particularly stunning and particularly egregious. right. that s the secure compartmented information. so based on what you now know was taken, and i want to be clear, we know a lot because you ve got this list, but we don t know exactly nor obviously should we given the security designation what it pertains to or what the details are. but from what you know here, was the fbi search necessary? it seems to me that the results of the search as reflected even in the somewhat opaque receipt of property completely bear out the government s narrative to the magistrate that there was in fact sufficient probable cause
but the smart folks up here are basically out of ideas for how to shift this thing without some external factor changing. i want to read something here quickly. this is from hogan gidley, when asked about how this thing could end, the spokesperson raised the possibility is that super bowl may be delayed because of the shutdown. he says it s quite telling there are certain designated events that require mass protection, one of those is the super bowl. the question becomes if that s what it s going to take to get democrats to come to the table, the potential that the super bowl may have to be delayed. are you hearing that s a possibility, jill, that the super bowl could suffer as a result of the shutdown? reporter: i was surprised to hear hogan say that in that interview with fox news. i mean, technically, it does have the same special security