senate. mitch mcconnell worries aloud that it may block his return to the senate majority. and democrats say thousands of new irs agents will replace retir rees and improve customer service. up first for us, though, a new deadline and legal siren for the former president donald trump. federal prosecutors now have until next week to tell a judge what portions of the affidavit should stay secret. the judge disagreeing with the justice department say they are pieces of that document that could be made public without harming the case. they argued the probably cause for that warrant application. we learned the affidavit relies on substantial grand jury information and prosecutors say a full and public release of the document would lay out all to see the road map for the justice department s case, including next critical steps. we also got a glimpse of a new document with new allegations against the former president quoting willful retention of national information, language that p
that facility. new images first on cnn show little to no change in damage at the site compared to last month, but worries are continuing over the safety of europe s largest nuclear complex. both russia and ukraine are accusing the other of plotting attacks on or around the plant. now, the lack of independent access to the plant makes it impossible to verify what is actually happening there. yes, it s very hard for even u.s. officials to have visibility into exactly what the security situation is, but this is new video showing russian military trucks inside a turbine hall near the nouclear reactor. it s not clear when this video was taken. cnn s senior international correspondent is there for us. david, do we know if it s secure or the exact situation? reporter: the exact situation is very difficult to ascertain. what we do know is russian troops have been there for months now and they have placed military assets in and around that site. now, who is doing the shelling, whe
but pages, new pages we haven t seen this before. specific information about the potential offenses that the justice department is investigating. in here is language that does sharpen the focus on the former president himself. for example, if you just look at this part, it says under the search is related to a violation of, it continues to say willful retention of national defense information, concealment or removal of government records, and obstruction of federal investigation. so we got a little bit here. this, again, is new information as part of the whole search of mar-a-lago. the federal judge today also ordering the justice department to possibly release the crucial affidavit used to get the search warrant. so prepare redactions in casey the ruling is to release it. the affidavit itself will tell us what specifically the justice department knew when it searched trump s home. what specifically investigators were looking for and why. what was their cause. and who helped
describing the fbi as the, quote, fascist bureau of investigation. we ll talk more in a moment about the debate within the former president s circle over putting out the surveillance video or not. but according to reporting in the new york times by cnn political analyst maggie haberman, investigators already have at least some surveillance video from earlier before the raid, which may have actually triggered the search. quoting now, officials then used a subpoena to obtain surveillance footage of the hallway outside a storage room at mar-a-lago and saw something that alarmed them. they also received information from at least one witness who indicated that more material might remain at the residence, people familiar with the investigation said. tonight s lead story comes at the end of a day that saw a string of related developments, including rudy giuliani going before a grand jury, the outlines of a plea deal involving alan weissle berg, and a declaration of political war f
extraordinary dispute play out in south florida this afternoon. it s going to be a high stakes argument over what level of transparency the american public is owed when it comes to the justice department s investigation of sensitive documents that were stored at the former president s home. the doj does not want the affidavit released, claiming it could compromise their investigation. cnn has learned that some trump allies are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of fbi agents searching mar-a-lago. eric trump says his father will absolutely release the tapes at what he calls the right time. now, remember, this is the video of the search itself from the trump s own security cameras. this is not the surveillance video that had been subpoenaed by investigators and reportedly showed activity around the boxes that contained classified documents, activity so alarming to law enforcement that they pushed for the search warrant. katelyn polantz is live outside of th