congressman and former republican governor charlie crist. and in the race to oppose senator marco rubio in the fall, cnn projects the democratic nominee is congresswoman val demings. first, the documents. we know a lot more tonight about the classified material the former president was keeping at mar-a-lago, including how much of it there was, more than 700 pages, how the former president tried to hang on to it for months, and how very sensitive some of the information in it was, more sensitive than previously reported, bearing a designation limiting access to only a select few officials. the reason we know this information is because of a move by one of the former president s allies and a liaison to the national archive. a move that the ally billed as bolstering the former president s case against the fbi search. but he may have done the precise opposite and then some. we have new evidence. justice news has obtained correspondence between various properties during the le
first line. politics cannot be allowed to impact the administration of justice. so we ll focus on the filing ahead and the chances that a judge will agree with any or all of it given how late in the process it is. we ll also examine how the various assertions of fact in the filing actually stand up to the facts themselves. also tonight, a cnn exclusive. late word that the justice department has issued a new subpoena for more january 6th-related documents. cnn s kaitlan collins starts us off. what is the former president and his legal team seeking in this filing? reporter: a few things. one is this third party attorney, which is known better as a special master, that can really go through these documents if they re appointed, see what has legal privilege, what doesn t. it takes up time though, so it s a little unusual they waited two weeks to file for this because there s a chance the justice department has already gone through this, the investigators looking at it, becaus
it strikes and claims it makes neither of which are typical of the category. quoting now from the introductions first line, politics cannot be allowed to impact the use of justice. so, we ll focus on the filing ahead in the chances that a judge will agree with any or all of it given how early in the process it is. as well so examine how the various a surgeons are in fact in the filing, actually stand up to the facts themselves. also tonight, cnn exclusive that the justice department is issued a new subpoena for more january six related documents. katie collins starts us. off what is the president seeking and with this? one, is a third party attorney which is known better as a special master. it can go through these documents if they re appointed. see what has regal privilege, what doesn t. it takes up time though. it s a little unusual that they waited two weeks to file for this. there s a chance for the justice department has already gone through this, the investigators ar
they thought releasing it helped their case? also, urgent warning, the u.s. urging americans to leave ukraine immediately. the warnings of a possible russian attack as ukraine prepared to mark its day of independence. plus, explosive whistleblower claims in a cnn exclusive. the man who was head of twitter security says your data on the site is not safe and security problems at twitter are so grave, they re even a risk to national security. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with politics lead and damning new details in the battle over the classified documents trump and his team took to mar-a-lago. we re learning officials from the national archives directly told donald trump s legal team in may that they were so concerned about what the trump team had taken with them and how those documents were being stored at mar-a-lago that top u.s. intelligence agencies had been called in to do a damage assessment, as in damage to national security. now, to be clear, t
country now. president zelenskyy warning moscow may do something vicious in the coming hours as ukrainians mark independence day as well as six months of war. and we re tracking the final hours of voting in high stakes primaries in both florida and new york, including an ugly battle between two prominent democrats that will oust one of them from congress. 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. this hour, former president donald trump s new lawsuit stemming from the fbi search of mar-a-lago is getting pushback from a federal judge. the judge just set a friday deadline for trump s lawyers to clarify their request for a special master to review evidence that was seized by the fbi. now, this comes as we re learning more about classified documents recovered from trump s florida home earlier this year. cnn justice correspondent jessica schnyder has been follow