reconnected to the electricity grid. president zelenskyy says the danger isn t over yet. announcer: live, from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuberbrunhuber. we re getting our clearest look yet into the u.s. justice depa department s investigation into classified documents. a redacted version of the after daft the fbi submitted details what federal investigators expected to find, improperly taken classified national security materials as well as evidence of obstruction. in a court filing friday, donald trump s legal team said the redacted affidavit, quote, raises more questions than answers and underscores why a so called special master is needed to review the evidence taken during the search. jessica schneider has more on the key take aways from the unsealed document. reporter: startling new details about the hundreds of pages of documents former president trump kept at mar-a-lago for months as the national archives tried to get them back. the top
tonight, the mar-a-lago affidavit is providing more clarity about why the justice department authorized the unprecedented search of a former president s home. the affidavit underscoring the fbi s fear that highly sensitive material might still be on the premises after dozens of classified documents already had been retrieved. here s cnn s justice correspondent, jessica schneider. startling new details about the hundreds of pages of documents former president trump kept at mar-a-lago for months as the national archives tried to get them back. the top-secret stuff and compartment can get people killed. it is completely alarming. reporter: the now unsealed affidavit revealing 14 of the 15 boxes that the archives revealed in january of 2022 contained classified information, 184 unique documents in all, 67 marked confidential, 92 marked secret, and 25 marked top-secret. prosecutors said of most significant concern was that highly classified records were unfolded, intermixed
story. reporter: the economy is looking good so far. the white house hailing a monthly drop in consumer prices. a lot of good news in the economy. our focus here is to support households, keep our eye on the ball on inflation and hopefully come out the other side with steady and stable growth. reporter: with inflation still at a four decade high and this morning from the fed chair. while higher interest rates, slower growth and softer labor market conditions will bring down inflation, they will also bring some pain to households and businesses. reporter: the deceleration presenting a glimmer of optimism for white house officials. buoyed further by a nearly 7 point jump in august consumer sentiment, signs of progress president biden pledged to deliver, capping a whirlwind month of legislative victories. we ve done all this, but then our critics say inflation. you mean the global inflation caused by the worldwide pandemic and putin s war on ukraine? we re making progress.
market conditions will bring down inflation, they will bring some pain to households and businesses. reporter: the deceleration presenting a glimmer of optimism for white house officials. buoyed further by a nearly seven-point job in august consumer sentiment. signs of progress president biden has pledged to deliver, capping a whirlwind month of legislative victories. we ve done all this, but then our critics say, inflation. you mean the global inflation caused by the worldwide pandemic and putin s war on ukraine? we re making progress! reporter: and right as the white house hits the gas on biden s midterm campaign effort. biden traveling to reliably blue maryland to unveil a fiery and aggressive new approach. in 2020, you and 81 million americans voted to save our democracy. that s why donald trump isn t just a former president. he is a defeated former president.
good morning. what a whirlwind month you ve had. it s been quite a month. i proud that i have my senate i.d., and don t quite have capable in my apartment, but hoping this week. it s been not anything i anticipated, but i m ready to go to work. you couldn t imagine where you would have been sitting just two months ago? absolutely not. i ve been a lieutenant governor in minnesota working on a whole range of issues. this is definitely not something i expected. because you have replaced al franken and there was so much, you know, emotion around him resigning, do you think he should have resigned. i know from having to spoken to al many times, first of all, he was a really strong senator for minnesota. i also know the decision he made to resign was the decision he felt the best thing for minnesota. i respect the decision he made.