documents related to nuclear weapons capabilities during that court-approved search of his florida residence last month and includes as the post puts it a foreign government s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities and nuclear defense readiness. what country was the subject of this classified material was not revealed. but some of the material so secret that it s described as many senior national security officials are kept in the bark about them and only the president and some members of hi cabinet or a near cabinet level official know about them and can authorize others to be read in. this comes as the justice department is weighing its next steps after a federal judge sided with donald trump, agreeing to appoint a special master to review all of the documents picked up in this investigation and that include the possibility of appealing on the part of the justice department and bill barr thinks they should push to fight for. we will much more on all of that i
into the impact the supreme court s abortion decision could have on the november midterms. congressional democrats grow more optimistic about their chances to hold the majority. next hour, former president barack obama returns to the white house joined by michelle obama, her first trip back to the white house since she left there in 2017. it s the official unveiling of their white house portraits. we begin with justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, paul charlton and tracy wallner. ken, to you out of the gate. this is a significant development. walk us through what new we are learning. pete he , the post is saying there was a document referencing nuclear capabilities. they are aren t saying whether it s classified. no criticism. these are hard details. it s hard to know from this article how significant this document actually is. there are think tank reports that discussion countries nuclear defenses. the story goes into what we knew about the sensitivity
report in the washington post that documents about the nuclear capabilities of foreign nations were among those found at mar-a-lago. the former president is also responding. also, this hour we re following that news of an expected indictment for steve bannon. the one-time chief strategist in the trump white house looking to face prosecutors. when bannon could surreturn to thoughts. in tex, a judge gutting a key provision of the affordable care act. he ruled that free coverage of certain drugs that prevent hiv infections violate the religious beliefs of a christian-owned business. i m joe fryer in new york in for hallie jackson. we re going to start with the latest fallout with ken dylanian, the washington post political investigative reporter josh dauce, and paul butler. the fbi found a document that describes, quote, a foreign government s mill tar defenses, including its nuclear capabilities. nubs news has not independently confirmed this reporting, the doj declined
the witness did not pick up when trump called. committee members say it raises concerns this was not someone trump would routinely communicate with and the attempted call came after cassidy hutchinson s explosive testimony. the alarmed witness contacted an attorney. january 6th committee member lorraine la rei can t says the panel is taking this seriously. we take very seriously the safety of any witnesses, anyone that comes forward to the committee and likewise, you know, their privacy in this case, any speculation about who this person might have been and a lot of people trying to tie it together, the committee will just say that we want to protect this witness, but we also want to hold people accountable who have potentially broken the law. katelyn polantz and legal analyst and former special counsel to house democrats in the first trump impeachment norm eisen. caitlin, first to you. this reporting, white house staff support member. that s indeed right, john and br
co-conspirators had raised more than $25 million for this we build the wall effort but they say prosecutors say bannon and the others siphoned away at least $1 million that they used to cover some personal expenses. bannon pleaded not guilty and was never charged and that case never went through. trump then pardoned him. but, you know, state charges are not covered by a federal pardon and the fact that he was never fully prosecuted means that there is not an issue of double jeopardy here, at least according to numerous lawyers i ve spoken with, so bannon will be in court facing these charges tomorrow. he has called them phony and says that this is just another partisan political weaponization of the criminal justice system and these charges come two months after bannon was convicted in washington, d.c. on charges that he was found guilty of contempt of congress for failing to comply with a house committee investigating january 6th. thank you for that. joining me for more is cnn