cnn s blake is in taipei. blake, let s start with you. how much of a surprise was this, is this congressional visit? well, alex, look, these kinds of visits happen from time to time. and we don t often hear about them until after the arrival, and in this case, while taiwan s ministry of foreign affairs say the visit was aannounced, it s the timing that s perhaps the biggest surprise, especially after china reacted so strongly against speaker pelosi s visit. that reaction involved nearly a week of live fire drills surrounding taiwan with war planes and military vessels and missiles that flew over the self-governed island for the first time. this is the second time this month a surprise delegation has made this trip to taiwan here. two weeks ago, house speaker nancy pelosi. this time, a delegation led by ed markey during their two day visit, taiwan s foreign ministry says the group of u.s. lawmakers is going to meet with the democratic island s president, foreign minister, an
under executive privilege. meanwhile house democrats are also issuing demands. the chairs of the house intelligence and oversight committees saying they want a full intelligence damage assessment after classified documents were seized from mar-a-lago. take a listen. some of those documents were marked top secret, that s the highest that could be done if it s disclosed so the fact that they were in an unsecure place with a padlock or whatever security at a hotel is deeply alarming and i have asked for along with chairman maloney a damage assessment by the intelligence community and a briefing to congress. the fbi seized 11 sets of documents marked classified from the mar-a-lago resort including 1 marked as top secret sci. this is coming as sources say that the doj received assurances from a trump attorney in june that the former president was in not possession of classified materials. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is with me now. we have members of congress d
committees want answers about what fallout could await after top-secret documents were found at trump s resort. they re asking the director of national intelligence to provide an immediate damage assessment. you track a lot of this stuff. you are monitoring social media all the time for this sort of thing. the uptick in threats related to the mar-a-lago search is unmistakable. it s there and it is concerning. law enforcement officials across the country. that s right, jim. as soon as this news broke last monday night across these forums, both on the major social media platforms but more so on the new emerging social media platforms that many right-wing figures have migrated over to including, of course, trump s own social media platform, we saw immediate calls for violence against the fbi. i want to show you some of the threats made, some of the rhetoric, lock and load, kill all feds and another person writing, i m just going to say it, garland needs to be assassinated. sim
feds. the democratic chairs of the house intelligence oversight committees want answers over what fallout could await after top-secret documents were found at trump s resort and are asking the director of national intelligence to provide an immediate damage assessment. let s bring in two former trump administration insiders former counterterrorism and covid adviser to mike pence olivia troye and former white house press secretary steph nye grisham. thank you both for being with us this evening. the thing i can t wrap my head around is why a president who notoriously paid little attention to his daily intelligence briefings as reported time and again while he was in office why would he hold on to this stuff and have it around mar-a-lago. you were his press secretary for a period of time. why does he suddenly care about top-secret materials? your guess is as good as mine and i ll leave it up to law enforcement and the investigation to come to that conclusion. there are many t
text messages from january six itself, also the day before that were deleted as a part of a bias replacement program. we don t know what the facts are, we will get to the facts about why that happened and we will do whatever we can to retrieve the substance of those tax. that committee subpoena the math at the agency summit relevant records by tuesday and that s just in time for the next high-profile crime here on thursday. let s get into this joining me now is elie mystal. he is an author of the new york times bestseller, allow me to retort a black ice guide to the constitution. mandatory reading that tell. you so happy to have you here, i know your weekends are very busy so i was grateful when you can join us. i have to ask you first, what do you make of this whole report on the secret service text messages around january six been deleted? how does that happen? it s hard for me to believe that secret service is saying there was not done maliciously, maybe it was not mal