thursday admitting his role in a decades long tax fraud scheme. international community reacting this horror that this could be at the center of fighting. hello and welcome, it is friday, august 19, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast where a federal judge has released a few new documents related to the search of donald trump s mar-a-lago home and the details they contain on the potential offenses sharpen the focus on the former president. the same judge signed off on the affidavit and he indicated thursday that he is willing to unseal portions of it that were used to just guy the fbi search. he told prosecutors to prepare redactions to the document in case the ruling is to release it. meantime we re learning that trump s claim that he had a standing order to declassify the documents taken from the oval office is nonsense. cnn can exclusively report that 18 former top trump administration officials have been mocking that claim. here is how trump s f
and sisters who were widowed and our children killed. across this rural taliban stro stronghold, american forces were seen as invaders who brought death and destruction with their night raids and drone strikes. peace has brought a chance to air long held grievances. at the local market, we re immediately surrounded. every household had at least one fighter, this man tells us. and every house had people killed by the americans and their drones and we re proud of that. here this man is treated like royalty. his brother is believed to be responsible for downing a helicopter full of u.s. special forces. so he is taking me to the spot where he says his brother shot down a chinook. it was august 6, 2011. hamas says his brother was hiding behind the trees and shot the chinook down with an rpg as
helicopter earlier. marines have also taken control of the police headquarters. that was one of the main objectives for the forces fighting in the taliban stro stronghold of marjah. later today, president obama will meet with his national security team in the white house situation room to monitor the new u.s.-led offensive in afghanistan. reporter: roaming the empty streets of marjah. the u.s. marines from unit 16 s alpha company keep a watchful eye over the city from a bazaar. some believe the taliban are just hiding waiting for the opportunity to launch attacks. marines say for the taliban, time is running out. once people are on our side, they no longer have a place to hide. it will just be us with the local nationals and all the afghans trying to join together to make a team.
we agree on, in the area of insurance reform, and market reform and a variety of areas, and move that forward rather than moving a massive bill forward which was the proposal we got last december, i do think there is a possibility for progress here. i m not quite as negative as evan is on that issue. senator gregg, it s good to see you. thank you, sir. thank you, contessa. developing now, interrogators are questioning the afghan taliban s top military leader captured in pakistan. and the united states is intent in going after the taliban, pushing some 15,000 troops even further into the enemy stro stronghold in southern afghanistan. this is day four of the offensive. jim miklaszewski is at the pentagon. about this arrest of the taliban commander, how significant is it, jim? reporter: contessa, the most significant thing is how much intelligence, how much information this individual has.