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
make major question going into the weekend is this violent protest happening across the country. good morning everybody you ve almost made it it s almost the weekend. thank you so much for sit staying yesterday. i got the best way to end my week was with you. you become inc. you for having me. you made a good choice. this is america s newsroom violent outside lawmakers were evacuated from the basement of the building in the capital was put on lockdown it is all of that just a taste of what s to come? pro-palestinian group posting a map of new york city targets, fanning the flames of anti-semitism burning since hamas lobsters attacks on th the dash that they are saying this threatening businesses and organization are referring to them as the enemy is exactly the kind of hateful rhetoric that seeks to divide new yorkers but it will work and quote. live in midtown manhattan is with us now is our corres correspondent. good morning the remove social media posts calli
the hearing has been ongoing in the mariana islands. thejudge says julian assange the mariana islands. thejudge sastulian assange will walk away a free man that s the information coming in from the remote us territory. the wikileaks founder has been fighting extradition to the us on espionage charges for over a decade now. let s take a look at the key dates that have brought us to this point. the wikileaks cofounder has been fighting extradition to the us on espionage charges for over a decade. let s look at the key dates that have brought us here. in 2010, julian assange was part of a flood of classified military files and diplomatic cables spilled by wikileaks that year. months later, an international arrest warrant was issued. sweden wanted to question him about sexual assault allegations made by two women. to avoid extradition, he sought refuge in ecuador s london embassy. he d spend seven years there. but in 2019 in a dramatic moment he was dragged out of the embas
documents. that was part of a deal to end his iii year legal battle over the leaking of vast amounts of secret us military information on the internet. the 52 year old is now on his way home to australia following the hearing. and from where a southeast asia correspondent jonathan had sent this report. the last stage of a very long journey. julian assange walked into the courtroom on this remote pacific island to hear whether the agreement he d struck with us prosecutors would stick. after two hours of very careful consideration by the judge, it did. he pleaded guilty, and she agreed to a sentence equal to the time he d already served in britain. but his lawyers still insist his prosecution for breaking an espionage law was unjust. we firmly believed that mr assange never should have been charged under the espionage act, and engaged in exercise thatjournalists engage in every day. and we re thankful that they do. it is appropriate, though, for this fight to end and it is appr
glastonbury looks dry this year. here in kew gardens, lots of sunshine. i will have the weather for you later. it s wednesday the 26th june. with just over a week to go until polling day, the prime minister rishi sunak and labour s sir keir starmer are preparing to go head to head in their final leaders debate of the election later. it comes as members of both main parties continue to face difficult questions about betting allegations. our political correspondent iain watson reports. the second and final head to head clash between rishi sunak and the man who wants hisjob keir starmer takes place tonight on the bbc. and it s worth a bet that one of the topics might just involve gambling. the conservative campaign has been buffeted by allegations that two candidates, two party officials, and now a member of the welsh senedd had bet on a date of the general election, and were facing inquiries from the gambling watchdog. it s an independent process with the gambling commissio