today. we begin with blockbuster revelation the justice department. in a court filing last night prosecutors say classified documents were, quote, likely concealed and removed from a storage room at donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. the filing making it abundantly clear the justice department is focused on efforts by trump and those around him to obstruct their investigation. the document also includes this photo, and you can see in it several folders there seized by the fbi. they are clearly marked top secret and secret. it is important to note these photos from the fbi represent their evidence that they were documenting as they do on a regular basis. this is not to show how they were discovered. prosecutors are asking a federal judge to deny the former president s request to have a special master appointed. trump s legal team has until tonight to respond to all of this. let s begin with cnn s evan perez live in washington with more on these new allegations and there is a lo
the mayor of jackson, mississippi, with an ominous warning. flooding in parts of the state capital. a federal judge has indicated she s likely to grant a request from the former president s legal team to appoint an independent legal expert or special master to review evidence taken to an fbi search of donald trump s sprawling mar-a-lago estate. a hearing for a final decision scheduled for thursday. the application for a special master is seen by many experts has have nothing legal benefit and it s possibly a delaying tactic. meantime, the director of national intelligence will advise senior lawmakers on the potential risk to national security posed by top secret documents being kept in trump s florida residence. reporter: cnn has learned that director of national intelligence avril haines confirmed to lawmakers the intelligence community is working together with the justice department to review all relevant documents that have been retrieved from former president trump
we re live in the cnn weather center. also ahead clasheses b between rival milit in libya leaving dozens dead and others injured. we ll have the latest report. a trump appointed federal judge indicated she s likely it grant a request from the former president s legal team to appoint a special master to review evidence taken from donald trump s sprawling mar-a-lago estate. the application for a special master is seen by many experts as having no legal benefit and is possibly a delaying tactic. meantime, the director of national intelligence will advise senior lawmakers on the potential risk to national security posed by top secret documents being kept at trump s florida home. cnn s white house reporter natasha bertrand has more. reporter: cnn has learned that director of national intelligence avril haines confirmed to lawmakers on friday that the intelligence community is working together with the justice department to review all relevant documents that have been retriev
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attorney to oversee the review of the evidence confisicated from his home. so walk us through this heavily redacted affidavit. ned reeka, good afternoon to you. it was heavily redacted, but you know what? there was a lot of stuff we got to see, which is great because this is such an important investigation. transparency is critical. so this was what the fbi was telling the judge why they needed to do a historic search of the former president s home down in florida. they were making the case that basically classified documents had been found before and there might be more to come. take a look at these numbers. this is what they said were recovered from mar-a-lago earlier this year. 67 confidential documents, 92 secret. and going in order from the least classified to most, 25 top secret. and all the experts have said that it s those 25 top secret documents that really made their skin crawl because of what else was in that affidavit. that affidavit explained specifically some