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
home. his team claims they were declassified. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. our top story, the gunmen who carried out a suspected terror attack in jerusalem has turned himself into police. what is the latest? reporter: in the middle of the night as people were leaving or arriving to the western wall, and the old city of jerusalem, at this bus stop and parking lot outside of the walls of the old city the shooting attack took place on a bus. the shooter shot at a bus a nearby parking lot. this is a major site for religious pilgrims and many tourists. this is one of the main places the enter the old city to visit the holiest site in western wall. it is a sensitive place with a lot of people. it was the middle of the night but the shooting attack took place. two of the victims are severely injured, five mildly and moderately. including a pregnant woman who had to undergo a emergency c- section. we also understand several of the injured are american citizens, w
city. how the immigration battle between texas governor greg abbott and new york mayor eric adams is heating up. a boom caused by a meteor. details on that and more just ahead. welcome to a new week. we re grateful you re starting it with us this sunday, august 14th. good morning, amara. good morning. feels like the week went by really fast and we re already at a new one. a ton of news, right? a lot of news. you to took the words out of my mouth. the recovery of top secret classified documents by the fbi, sources telling cnn that one of trump s lawyers stated back in june that there was no more classified information being kept at mar-a-lago. but the fbi searched the former president s palm beach home and seized 11 sets of classified documents, some of which were marked top secret. meantime, on capitol hill, both sides of the aisle are calling on investigators to release more information on exactly what led to the search. adam schiff, the democratic chair of the h
the criminal handling of document government records is a three-year prison sentence. the obstruction of justice is a 20-year prison sentence and bars you from holding any federal office. and the violation of espionage act is a very broad act. the specific section they cited here in this search warrant was 793 and that s fairly straightforward. it says, if you possess documents that are of a nature that have such national security secrets that if they re released or they re revoled they could cause damage or harm to the united states and the person knows that or should know that and they have those documents and someone comes and asks them for it and they don t turn them over, you re in violation of that section. now, remember the 11 documents that were listed in the return for the search warrant from top secret to confidential to secret, those designations are only given to documents who, by definition, if released would cause damage or damage tore the united states. so, if donald tru
most strenuous provisions for secrecy around them. these new details are fleshing out the timeline, leading to the fbi s search of mar-a-lago. we learned of a meeting trump s attorneys had in june and a subpoena for the records before the search. this letter from trump s lawyer also adds to our understanding of why federal prosecutors may have seen no other way to resecure these sensitive records than to go onto the beach club grounds for themselves. they weren t going to be given back by the former president s team clearly. now donald trump and some of his advisers are claiming he declassified all the records he kept after the presidency. criminal mishandling of government records, espionage act, the classification status might be immaterial. what matters, as the justice department continues to investigate this, is how potentially harmful it was to have these records out of the control of the federal government for the last year and a half. all of what happens in june is