search of mar-a-lago. prosecutors made the case for secrecy because evidence might be destroyed, they said, but the judge set in motion the possibility of releasing a redacted version of the affidavit as soon as next week. ludicrous, ridiculous, bs, those words coming from former trump senior officials who dispute the former president s claim that he had, quote, a standing order to declassify documents that he took from the white house. cnn reached out to 18 former top trump administration officials and all of them told us they never heard any such order issued during their time working for donald trump. we re going to have much more on that in just a moment. joining us now is former senior counsel to ken starr, former deputy assistant secretary for policy at the department of homeland security, paul rosen swig. i want to talk about the document released yesterday by judge reinhart which outlines some of the reasons why the fbi wanted to search donald trump s home and one o
down. video circulating online showing smoke rising near the plant, where authorities today confirmed a fire. president biden speaking to president zelenskyy, voicing concerns, and what experts fear about the possibility of a reactor meltdown. britt clennett on the ground in ukraine. the flash flood threat moves east. millions on alert in the deep south. from eastern texas to the florida panhandle. parts of mississippi and alabama seeing two to three inches of rain per hour. a day after record-breaking downpours turned roads into rivers. forcing evacuations from an assisted living facility in mississippi. trevor ault in the storm zone. rob marciano timing it all out. a major move on climate change by california. banning the sale of new cars powered only by gas by 2035. the first state in the nation to do so. is this the beginning of the end for the combustion engine? the fallout from the firing of the controversial uvalde school police chief. pete arredondo now fighting
particularly on the left. the school board finally deciding to fire pete arredondo. they have been waiting for some accountability, any accountability, for now going on three months. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is thursday, august 25, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and florida and we could see be learning more about why the fbi wanted to search donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. the u.s. justice department is facing a noon deadline to finalize their redactions to the affidavit that led to that search. and then a judge will decide what parts of that document should be made public. evan perez explains the process. reporter: we don t know what the judge is going to do. we know he is obviously he knows what is in this affidavit. he is very familiar with it. and he said that he is very comfortable with what he approved. we ll see whether the justice department will at least perhaps unredact some of the things that have
showing smoke rising near the plant, where authorities today confirmed a fire. president biden speaking to president zelenskyy, voicing concerns, and what experts fear about the possibility of a reactor meltdown. britt clennett on the ground in ukraine. the flash flood threat moves east. millions on alert in the deep south. from eastern texas to the florida panhandle. parts of mississippi and alabama seeing two to three inches of rain per hour. a day after record-breaking downpours turned roads into rivers. forcing evacuations from an assisted living facility in mississippi. trevor ault in the storm zone. rob marciano timing it all out. a major move on climate change by california. banning the sale of new cars powered only by gas by 2035. the first state in the nation to do so. is this the beginning of the end for the combustion engine? the fallout from the firing of the controversial uvalde school police chief. pete air don know now fighting his termination. john quino
correspondence with kim jung-un, correspondence with former president obama, and they really needed all of these things back. and what it shows is that actually before former president trump even left office during the final days of his presidency, that is when the first request from the archives came into please give these boxes back. we didn t know that before, but they got involved so early. and then they were repeatedly involved throughout the spring of 2021 and the former president s lawyers knew about the extensive efforts and were involved in these as well to get the documents back. so what this email shows is long before it dit bubbled into the public ground, more than a year before, there was efforts to get all of these things back to the national ags are a could i have. two new developments in the investigation of election interference by the trump campaign in georgia, a judge will hear arguments in a few hours on governor brian kemp s