representatives all the time that they thought was appropriate to comply with their legal obligations to return official documents, including potentially classified records. i think it is really important to highlight the fact that one of trump s own lawyers conceded to the washington post yesterday that the warrant, which the lawyer saw, indicated the warrant was seeking information relating to classified information. the president is in significant legal jeopardy if he retained classified information at mar-a-lago and especially if he failed to turn it over to the department and the fbi all these months later. david, since we have you, let s get this out there right now, because people have been asking questions comparing this to the situation, the investigation surrounding hillary clinton s emails. how is this different? we don t have enough factual information yet to compare all the many ways this may be different, john. the clinton investigation stands on its own.
nuclear disaster. plus, apple alert. the tech giant warns a security flaw could allow iphones and ipads to get hacked. what should you do right now to protect your devices? welcome to the lead. we start with our politics lead. in the six words sounding new alarms in trump world. documents unsealed by a federal judge related to that fbi raid at mar-a-lago include the phrase, willful retention of national defense information. willful retention of national defense information. legal experts tell cnn that phrase sharpens the focus on the former president as a possible subject of the justice department s criminal investigation. in another trump related investigation, the one down in georgia, a federal judge there ruled that she will not put on hold the ruling that republican senator lindsey graham of south carolina must appear before that fulton county special grand jury next week. the prosecutors said in a filing today that graham s testimony is crucial to the investigation i
also ahead for you, tent city, sleeping on the streets, where leaders are making homelessness a crime, but are their tactics only complicating the problem? welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start in our politics lead. and strong reaction to the justice department s historic move. a search warrant executed on the home of a former president. taking boxes of items from donald trump s mar-a-lago home, a source tells cnn. the warrant escalates the justice department s investigation into his handling of presidential documents, including some classified material. with many republicans today questioning why the fbi executed this warrant now. at the time, trump himself was in new york, where a single photo outside trump tower today captures the mixed reaction. look at this. one group with a large sign that reads, arrest trump. while another group carried a flag reading trump 24, save america. on paper, trump blasted the search saying in a statement, ag
that is his summer residence. he s also about to meet in a few hours with several members of the republican study committee who are essentially rushing there to discuss what s going on. jim banks is the chairman of the rsd. he will be at bedminster. that s an aerial shot of the golf club. we ll keep a eye on the comings and goings and see if we hear anything from donald trump on all of this over the course of the afternoon. we saw a little reaction from him on truth social last night. we may get a public statement from him as we keep a close eye on who comes and goes from bedminster this afternoon. so the fbi, when you think about it, has been investigating donald trump for seven years. from the russia collusion days all the way until now. and this raid is likely just the beginning of the next stage in this story as it fires up the deepest entrenched forces for and against this most fiercely debated american president. he appears to have his eyes on the white house once again
scheme, as he tries to avoid more jailtime. and also today, walmart, walgreen s, and cvs, all ordered to pay up in a multimillion dollar opioid settlement. where will that money go, as prosecutors claim they helped fuel a silent epidemic that left so many americans hooked and hundreds of thousands dead. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we ll start with our politics lead. major developments when it comes to learning more details behind the mar-a-lago raid. this afternoon, u.s. magistrate judge bruce rhinehart ruled he will unseal additional documents surrounding the search and left the door open for releasing parts of the actual affidavit, which lays out in detail why the justice department felt the need to take the unprecedented step of searching the home of a former president. the doj is against revealing that affidavit. they say it would provide a road map for their criminal investigation to possible future defendants. and they say it could chill future cooperation b