that florida governor ron desantis will challenge donald trump for the republican presidential nomination. it comes on a day the company he has targeted, disney, decided to hit him with a billion dollar blow. i ll have more on what disney just announced shortly. but on desantis run, sources are telling cnn he ll be filing the paperwork next week. he had a call late today with donors and supporters, and a new york times reporter listened in. i m going to read a quote from that new york times story which begins with something desantis said on the call. you basically have three people credible in this whole thing, mr. desantis said on the call, organized by the superpac supporting him, biden, trump and me. of the two, two have a chance to be elected, biden and me. the times said he is basing that on swing state data which he describes as not great for the former president, quote, and probably insurmountable because people aren t going to change their view of him. which is
going to feel when president biden signs it next week. and author salman rushdie, attacked on stage and air lifted to the hospital. we ll tell you what we know about his condition this morning. and inflation is cooling, gas prices are dropping, but the cost of other items remains painfully high. what the new numbers say about the current state of the economy. welcome to your weekend. it s saturday, august 13th. we are grateful to be with you. good morning, amara. good morning, boris. so good to be with you. feel like i ve been missing boris in my life. nice to be here. pleasure to be with you, as always. thanks, boris. we begin with new details this morning on what led the fbi to execute and unprecedented search warrant on former president trump s home, according to court documents unsealed friday, investigators removed 11 sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago, including some material that were marked as top secret, sci, which stands for sensitive, comp
The former president s federal charges reportedly include accusations of violating the Espionage Act and "tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant."
Phrase possible claims against the former president and others. but the obstruction claims, those exist regardless. and i also say remember, we always talk about classified information. that s what people understand. we re not talking about that really. we re talking about national defense information, which usually is classified, per the espionage act statute, but doesn t have to necessarily be. but you think this could take place in i mean, i heard you say weeks, not months. is that accurate? i think based on what we know publicly, i have no inside information into the justice department or the special counsel, that they have more than enough to proceed as a matter of law. whether or not from a policy perspective there s something holding them up, i don t know. but by all means, there is more than enough information to bring some charges in a matter of weeks if not months. now what could weeks be? i don t know. eight weeks? 12 weeks? that s still two, three, four
What they could have done besides this. and in response to the mar-a-lago raid, former president trump claiming that he declassified all the documents seized by the fbi. though there is no evidence of that. let s go now to cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez for more on this. evan, break this all down for us. hi there, evan. reporter: hey, amara and boris. good morning. look, i think the former president is trying to make his best defense, which is why are you coming, breaking into my house? which they didn t do, by the way. why are you coming to my house to get information that i had declassified? and what s interesting about what the what we find from this document that was released by the federal court yesterday is that we know now that they re investigating these three crimes, including the espionage act statute, which by the way, does not make a reference to classified information. it refers to national defense information, which is the same