and criminal investigation, the filing argsing the disclosure would likely chill future cooperation by witnesses whose tennessee assistance may be sought as this investigation progresses as well as in other high profile investigations. in other words, this may not just be about retrooefg docu documents. separately, the department of justice unsealed charges against a pennsylvania man accused of threatening to kill fbi agents after the search. and the former president speaking to fox promised to help cool the climate of violence even while inciting it some more, calling it, quote, a very dangerous time, he said, quote, i will do whatever i can to help the country. he also said this, quote, and then they break into a president s house, a sneak attack where it was totally no one ever thought a thing like this would happen. he went on to again suggest the fbi planted evident and said, quote the people of this country are not going to stand for another scam, fire meet gasoline. al
investigation. primary elections will soon be held in alaska and wyoming. why a republican trump critic, liz cheney, faces a difficult fight to hold onto her house he. and china has reportedly sanctioned officials in taiwan, claiming, the recent visit by u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi, is a sign of pro- independence activities. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with rosemary chance. good to have you with us. we begin this hour with a group of growing illegal troubles for trump and his closest allies and advisors. first, the u.s. justice department is opposing the release of the affidavit of used to get the search warrant for trump s for the home. the two apartments is, the ongoing investigation and vials highly-classified criminal materials, and making the details of could compromise their work and discourage cooperation from witnesses. in the meantime, prosecutors in georgia have notified trump s former attorney, rudy giuliani, that he is a target in th
justice department says it s trying to protect in its investigation of documents taken from donald trump s home at mar-a-lago. in a way, these are the most expansive comments yet from the justice department and they come in a court filing opposing the release of the affidavit that lays out the case for searching mar-a-lago. now, senators on both members of the intelligence committee and media companies including cnn are pushing to see that information. new reporting this morning from the wall street journal revealed attorney general merrick garland deliberated for weeks before approving the warrant for the mar-a-lago search. senior doj officials met frequently at that time. he now faces a more consequential decision of whether or not to pursue that. katelyn polantz joins us from washington with the very latest. katelyn. brianna, the justice department filing saying they don t want the release of what backs up it and hints to the seriousness of the information. and those
document comes out, it will change everything that we know about the search of mar-a-lago. now, there are three relevant documents here, the first two, the search warrant and the property received, those are out in the public. we ve seen those. just for the sake of comparison, the search warrant that is three pages. it s mostly a form you fill out it tells us where the fbi wanted to search and the criminal laws the doj is looking at. it the property seized. that s also three pages. most of those entries just say box of documents. but the affidavit, the affidavit is a game-changer. this is a narrative document that the prosecutor has to write out. i have written more of these than i can even count. they re dozens of pages wouldn t at all surprise me if this were 50 to 100 pages. they list probable cause, you have to list specific evidence. you bring it over to the judge. we know the judge in this case reviewed and approved it. just to make an analogy to prove it. back when w
a fiction you called it. yeah. look. it s if he has declassified hundreds, maybe thousands of documents that he took to the residence because he worked very hard on this at night as we all know, over four years, the media should be filing freedom of information act requests for all documents declassified by donald trump pursuant to this standing order. i d love to see what gets produced. and we know from seeing the receipt of items taken from mar-a-lago that there was a box labeled as sci, sensitive compartmented information. can you think of any reason a former president would have to have sensitive compartmented information in his residence? no, look, in a normal administration a president is quite likely to write memoirs, he ll want and deserves access to highly classified information, arrangements are made for former presidents and indeed for former cabinet officers who leave under happy circumstances, that scifs are set up that they can go to and look at this c