from mar-a-lago in january including 25 marked top secret, one particularly disturbing revelation markings on some documents to indicate the material is related to human sources or spies. cnn s natasha bertrand joins us now. what more are we learning about what the intelligence community is planning to do here in terms of this damage assessment? they are taking this very seriously. yeah, jim, so we just learned this afternoon that the director of national intelligence avril haines, she has written letters to the house oversight, house intelligence, and we just learned senate intelligence committees telling them that she along with the justice department, they are conducting a classification review, certsesh essentially to see whether these documents are prosecuting attorneyly properly classified and importantly she is going to launch a review of the risk that these documents pose to the national security of the united states, the fact that they were missing, that they wer
first line. politics cannot be allowed to impact the administration of justice. so we ll focus on the filing ahead and the chances that a judge will agree with any or all of it given how late in the process it is. we ll also examine how the various assertions of fact in the filing actually stand up to the facts themselves. also tonight, a cnn exclusive. late word that the justice department has issued a new subpoena for more january 6th-related documents. cnn s kaitlan collins starts us off. what is the former president and his legal team seeking in this filing? reporter: a few things. one is this third party attorney, which is known better as a special master, that can really go through these documents if they re appointed, see what has legal privilege, what doesn t. it takes up time though, so it s a little unusual they waited two weeks to file for this because there s a chance the justice department has already gone through this, the investigators looking at it, becaus
threatens the fbi in court documents and his supporters work up new excuses. every former president has access to other documents that s how they write the war memoirs. plus new reporting on the most powerful man in american politics the never heard of. as planned to spend 1.6 billion dollars from single conservative donor, and 78 days into the midterms, what mitch mcconnell s concerns about candidate quality a reading their head in georgia. our good air decided to float over to china s batter. so when china gets our good air, their batter got to move. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. two weeks after the fbi executed that search warrant on his florida property, donald trump is finally issued a legal response if you want to call it that. not surprisingly the, attempts here is to stall the investigation into the allegedly classified information the fbi seized from mar-a-lago by asking the court to appoint what s called a special ma
candidate quality are rearing their head in georgia. our good air decided to float over to china s bad air. so when china gets our good air, their bad air gotta move. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. two weeks after the fbi executed that search warrant on his florida property, donald trump has finally issued a legal response if you want to call it that. not surprisingly, the attempt here is to stall the investigation into the allegedly classified information the fbi seized from mar-a-lago by asking the court to appoint what s called a special master. that s one who goes through and looks at the documents and sees if any are covered by executive privilege. that in itself does make a ton of sense. nevertheless, lots of legal observers say this all may be too little, too late. the case will be heard by judge aileen cannon who was appointed by trump, supported by far-right florida senator rick scott, before being confirmed in the lame du
society are given credit for the confirmations of neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh, and amy coney barrett. it was leo who was in the driver s seat of those nominations. leo is the person who can raise the money and has the background to put in place judges who will build a conservative judicial infrastructure around the country. leonard leo now has an unprecedented amount of cash to spend on whatever political projects he likes. and while the donation was meant to be kept secret, name and address withheld on the irs form, cnn has confirmed the source as 90-year-old businessman and philanthropist barry side, who donated the entire stock of his company to marvel freedom trust, which turned around and sold it for $1.6 billion. cnn has attempted to reach mr. side without response. his donation will leave behind a dark money political legacy that could last decades. already, marble freedom trust has given more than $200 million to other causes. including $40 million to donors tru