Stay updated with breaking news from Loosening covid. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
violence. let s go straight to more, tracking so much of what has done said on line. death threats have been out there, some general like social media posts urging people to kill all feds. but there have also been very specific threats, in particular aimed at the attorney general, merrick garland, and the florida judge who signed and then unsealed that search warrant. how concerned are federal officials about about this going from online threats to actual violence? reporter: yeah. well, sources told our colleague josh campbell that the fbi s investigating an unprecedented number of threats against its personnel including some of its agents. and you can really see that playing out on line since right after the news of that search of mar-a-lago broke on monday. i want to show you some of the kind of messages that have been posted. you mentioned there s one called kill awed feds, another lock and load, another person writes, i m going to say it, garland needs to be ass ....
we are staying on top of this story. let s begin in washington first with our senior justice correspondent, evan perez. good morning again. tie all these threads together because those three headlines i read all came after garland s really extraordinary press conference not press conference, statement. reporter: statement, right. exactly. you wish it was a press conference. we tried to make it a press conference, and he wouldn t bite. but as you pointed out, look, the context here is important which is that this has been a fight that s been going on for about 18 months, the former president took documents that should never have left the u.s. government s possession and ended up at his beach house in palm beach. the fbi, the national archives have been trying to get it back for all of that time. and among the documents, according to the washington post, that the fbi has been trying to get back is documents are documents that have to do with the u.s. nuclear w ....
quote, encouraging the immediate release. we ll see. trump has had the documents in his possession, though, since monday s search. though there is nothing stopping him and his legal team from making it public at any time. the forward motion here came from attorney general merrick garland, making a big statement yesterday and making it clear that he personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant for trump s home. and also new this morning, the washington post reports the fbi searched trump s home seeking classified documents related to nuclear weapons. let s begin with more from washington on this looming deadline for donald trump. what are you hearing about this? reporter: well, we did see that statement almost 12 hours ago from donald trump saying he s encouraging the re the release of the documents. we haven t seen the documents or a court filing yet. i checked a few minutes ago in the southern district of florida, court docket for the search warrant ....
And it was on display. we should be we really need to learn from this because this could be yeah. they should know better. they should know that words have an impact, and this is potentially playing with fire. david, thank you so much, sir. we ve got to leave it there. appreciate your time. thank you. coming up this hour, how the cdc is loosening covid restrictions and how that impacts kids who are returning to school. also coming up, debating the pros and cons of lockdown drills in schools and whether they really save lives. and it s been a year since the u.s. and nato allies pulled out of afghanistan. i ll be speaking with an afghan interpreter who actually helped u.s. forces secure the kabul airport. we ll be asking what his life is like now that he s here with his family in the united states. you re in the cnn newsroom. we ll be right back. because with miro, they could problem solve together, and find the answer that was right under theieir nose. or. his s nose. ....
Her attorneys are planning an a meal. appeal. still to come, the teachers union failed, saying they need more covid protection. city officials disagree. this is bachltinehaving real the flu. we don t close school districts for extended periods of time for the flu. and an influx of omicron is crossing through europe. cases shattering records and some are loosening covid restrictions. we ll explain next. you are watching cnn newsroom. ....