mar-a-lago. and we re keep ing an eye o flooding in the southwestern u.s. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. the biden white house is officially hands off regarding last week s fbi search of donald trump s mar-a-lago residence. it turned up 11 sets of classified material, including some with the highest secrecy. privately, some white house officials admit they re worried about what other sensitive docu might be out there. as jessica schneider reports, the department of justice is pushing back. reporter: prosecutors have less than one week to submit proposed redactions to the judge so he can decide what might be released publicly. it will likely be a tall task for this department of justice. they have said repeatedly that any retaxedactions they would propose it would make the affidavit devoid of content. regardless, the judge wants their recommendation business next thursday at noon, and he might have additional conversations with the do
republicans are starting to put a finer point on their midterm strategy. in the general election, it is a di different calculation. i am told that republican tom immer has been privately counseling some candidates to avoid any trump talk and not be distracted by the former president and told them to be k focussed on issues such as crime, inflation and the border. i ve talked to a number of these republican candidates who says they ve tried to do exactly that. one only mentioned trump when asked about him by constituents. another said they never mention him by name and only talk about his policies, but that is going to be extremely difficult to do with trump continuing to dominate headlines with myriad
swing districts, and so there s a lot of concern in the gop right now that a trump-backed primary challenger could go on to lose in the general election. so mccarthy and his leadership team have been working behind the scenes to prevent that from happening. mccarthy has helped raise $100,000 each for at least five of the ten republicans who voted to impeach trump. he also privately has asked trump to layoff two of them, david val day owe of california, john of new york who could be vulnerable and are both very close to mccarthy. nrcc chairman tom immer has been a fund-raiser for jaime in washington state. this is putting them at odds with president trump and is firing up the base. i interviewed joe kent, the republican who is challenging ja jamie herrera butler. he said he is part of the gop grift, he would not support mccarthy for speaker. so you can see why this is becoming such a huge headache and risk for kevin mccarthy. okay.