golo s a lifestyle change and you make the change and it stays off. (soft music) it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. a just released letter from the national archives reveals more than 700 pages of classified documents were retrieved from former president trump s home in january. and that collection set off the chain of events that led to the fbi s search of mar-a-lago this month. this letter, first disclosed on a web site of a trump ally lays out the deferential treatment given to former president after the discovery. it describes how the fbi waited more than a month to look into those boxes to assess the damage. that delay was to allow the trump team to review whether to claim executive privilege. the letter was made public just hours after trump s lawyers filed its first court response to the fbi finding all of those classified documents in his home. they re seeking a third party, also known as a special master now to
they thought releasing it helped their case? also, urgent warning, the u.s. urging americans to leave ukraine immediately. the warnings of a possible russian attack as ukraine prepared to mark its day of independence. plus, explosive whistleblower claims in a cnn exclusive. the man who was head of twitter security says your data on the site is not safe and security problems at twitter are so grave, they re even a risk to national security. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with politics lead and damning new details in the battle over the classified documents trump and his team took to mar-a-lago. we re learning officials from the national archives directly told donald trump s legal team in may that they were so concerned about what the trump team had taken with them and how those documents were being stored at mar-a-lago that top u.s. intelligence agencies had been called in to do a damage assessment, as in damage to national security. now, to be clear, t
Hey, guyguys, look at me. he doesn t know anyone is recording. he likes drinking his beer through a hotdog. i don t know why you need to drink a beer through a hotdog. i don t know why you need to drink a beer through a straw. the smell of hotdog water makes me queasy. the lead with jake tapper starts now. team trump just curiously confirmed that hundreds of pages of secret documents had been held at mar-a-lago. the lead starts right now. a letter from may of this year just released revealing that the national archives made it clear to team trump urgently they worried about classified material being stored improperly at mar-a-lago. why was it there, who had access to it, and what does the letter say about the trump folks that
guyguys applause filling the room at mt. vernon high school, this is east of dallas. the superintendent said that briles, quote, brings with him a wealth of not only football experience but also life experience. he is passionate about investing in the lives of young people and helping them succeed both on the field and in life, unquote. briles took baylor university to unparalleled success a its football coach, but in may of 2061, he was fired after an independent investigation showed a fundamental failure by officials to respond adequately to sun to students allegations of sexual assault some of which involved players. briles struggled to get jobs since then. he took a coaching position in italy in 2018. according to espn, briles said in a statement friday, he is looking forward to returning to his roots as a high school coach in texas. now, baltimore ravens quarterback robert griffin iii won a heisman trophy at baylor
Doesn t show where these guyguys were at. i don t know what does. tucker: tells you everything, exactly right. congressman, thanks for everything. we appreciate it. thank you. tucker: a few weeks ago we see how james comey sees himself. knight at the round table. much better person than you could ever hope to be. and yet today s ig report reveals the true jim comey and very different image. jonathan ratcliff represents texas and he joins us tonight. congressman, thanks for coming on. you bet, tucker. tucker: knowing what we know now about comey reading this report today my first thought was how could barack obama have kept this man in place? yeah. i think, you know, i think the conclusions of a lot of folks looking at this report today was that jim comey was a really, really bad fbi director. and i think was that underscored by the unfortunate spectacle that we just saw his successor, jim wray hold a press conference chris wray hold a press conference where he had to apol