alleges tried to hire an assassin to kill former u.s. national security adviser john bo bolton. the deal with the growing threat that iran poses and not try to appease them. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is thursday, august 11, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in palm beach, florida where we re learning about what prompted the fbi to search donald trump s mar-a-lago residence. the wall street journal reporting investigators were given an insider typical lettering them to more classified documents inside former president trump s florida home. evan perez reports now from washington. reporter: someone came forward in recent weeks to tell the fbi that there were likely more classified documents being stored at former president trump s palm beach club according to the wall street journal. the journal says that is what prompted the search this week at mar-a-lago. cnn has not confirmed the journal s report, but we ve previously reporte
investigators, there were more classified documents beyond what trump turned over to the national archives earlier this year. let s bring in former federal prosecutor michael zeldin. what is your reaction to the reports of an informant here that there was a meeting at mar-a-lago in june, after that meeting someone informed law enforcement that there were more documents that were unsecured? is this a possibility that this informant is from trump s orbit? well, it would make sense that somebody within the trump world, within the mar-a-lago complex, had knowledge of the existence of additional boxes, 12 as we learned, and they decided that it was important to honor the obligations of law enforcement and let them know where these things were and so it went. with all the people coming in and out of mar-a-lago, i mean, you can see why investigators would be concerned if there were documents that would pertain to national security for example. and we know that investigators had