saying there is no doubt cleotha abston is involved in this case. jackie ibanez has details. jackie: unidentified body found in the search for eliza fletcher. investigators uncovered a body in the wooded area of south memphis, just seven miles from where cleotha abston was last seen. please have not confirmed the identity of the death. there is a first hearing later this morning and the felon is faces charges of identity theft after stealing a woman s cash app the day before eliza fletcher went missing. my whole family is whacky, they are all perpetrators of something, he says. fletcher sat out for a morning drive and reported missing by her husband just before 8:00 that morning. authorities discovered video of a violent attack, the unidentified body was found three days later. cleotha abston is refusing to cooperate with authorities and is being held on $500,000 bail. back to you. carley: death toll in philadelphia rising by three after string of shootings across the cit
airtime we have assembled a team of correspondents and experts to tell you what is known, but it could mean, and where it may lead. cnn s kaitlan collins starts us off. caitlin what are you learning about this fbi operation? john, it s a remarkable development with the former president himself confirming that the fbi has executed a search warrant on his home in palm beach, florida today. he said in a statement that his beautiful home, mar-a-lago in palm beach, which became s primary residence after he left the white house is, quote, currently under siege, rated and not occupied by a large number of fbi agents. he says after working in cooperating with the relevant government agencies, the sun announced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate. he adds, quote, they even broke into my safe and he compared it to water gate or worse than water gain and maintains it s an effort to stop him from running for president in 2024. we should note we have now learned this search
is a pr problem, but it is a legal problem. it is more political persecution of donald j. trump. they can t stand that americans love him. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is tuesday, august 9. 4:00 a.m. in palm beach florida where the fbi has executed a search warrant at donald trump s residence inside his mar-a-lago resort. multiple sources say it is part of an investigation into trump s handling of presidential documents including classified material. a person close to the matter tells cnn agents took boxes of items from the property. the former president was in this morning at the time, again sources tell cnn investigators have visited mar-a-lago in recent months to talk with tru trump s attorney about material taken from the white house. with trump in new york the secret service presence in mar-a-lago was small but a source says the fbi did provide a head s up before the search. cnn is learning the fbi interviewed aides to the former pre
acc taxes were taken. could there be connection between the tax discussions? at the beginning of this country, our founding fathering wrote the constitution, were concerned with general warrants, which when british soldiers go into a person s home and go through all aspectss looking for evidence of unspecified crime, that is why we have the fourth amendment to the u.s. constitution today. look at the warrant request, they said if you see anything relating to four years president trump was president in any respect, you should take that and that is apparently what happened at mar-a-lago, that is not consistent with the fourth amendment, seems to be general warrant of the thingor founding fathers were worried about, to limit power and protect individual liberties.
examined from every possible angle by the entirety of the leadership structure of both organizations. so let s remember that to get a search warrant in any case, whether it s you or i or the former president, you have to go before a federal judge and convince that judge that there s probable cause to believe both that a federal crime has been committed and that evidence of that crime is contained within the space you have described in your warrant request. so we have in this situation a federal judge made that determination, giving the agents authority to enter that premises and search every part of the premises that might contain the items that are specifically described in the warrant. so if it s, for instance, documents, classified documents, things like that and we don t know, but that s just a guess then you could see why they would have the authority to search every space, every drawer, every safe, every closet, every desk that might contain those documents.