aurlette saens is in wilmington, delaware. what has the white house learned? reporter: the white house has refrained from saying much publicly about the fbi search at mar-a-lago but officials have privately started to express concerns over those classified documents that were taken by former president donald trump. now, one of the concerns that is percolating among officials is whether this type of classified information taken to that florida home, whether that might jeopardize the work of the intelligence community by putting the sources and methods that the intel community uses to try to obtain information possibly at risk. many of these documents were highly classified top secret, so there are some concerns about what kind of impacts that could have on the intelligence community going forward. intelligence officials have expressed concern about what exactly is in those documents. there are also diplomatic concerns as well as whether there would be any diplomatic fallout
actions might have caused harm to our national security. curiously, republicans on the hill aren t asking those same questions. in fact, most don t seem very fazed at all by this. the hypocrisy of folks in my party, that spent years spending wiping a server, are now out there defending a man who very clearly did not take the national security of the united states to heart, and will be up to the doj whether or not that reaches a level of indictment. but, this is disgusting, in my mind, and no president should act this way, obviously. it is disgusting. republicans are silent, because what trump did was wrong, and they know it. he potentially put the united states in danger, there is no doubt about it. and worse, he is still putting americans in danger, as the washington post reports, trump and his cronies have put rank and file civil servants in harm s way after the mar-a-lago search. attorney general garland faced online assassination threats, he decried the rising unfou
6th attendee and candidate doug mastriano. all back in for the, desantis is bringing his far-right agenda to the classroom. the state telling educators what they must teach and what they are not allowed to say. tonight, part two of our special report. and democrats, hopeful as republicans run scared. new polling showing the gop is trump backed candidates could cost them a chance at taking the senate. republican strategist mike murphy who is fed up with this party joins us live. plus, a trump ally lindsey graham tells us he must testify next week. andrew weizmann, former prosecutor and senior member of robert mueller s team is our guest. but tonight, we begin with the story. the man waiting in the wings. while donald trump is finding a torrent of investigations, there is one person who has been ready to take the mic, should the former president go bankrupt, be caught in jail, or fall into a classified box. that man is florida republican governor ron desantis. the first term go
into chaos and create a showdown where the next president will be decided by a vote in the republican -controlled house of representatives. history suggests that democrats are all toward a midterm shacking, as president obama once called it. the party in the white house has few exceptions traditionally lost seats in congress. democrats are expected to perform poorly. there s almost a punchline at this point. yes, president biden s all-time low pole time certainly not helping his party on senate majorities. the true picture is, it s more complicated than that. there s a brand-new shiny budget reconciliation possibly on the horizon, with more money for health care, prescription drugs and the climate, there s also new polling this week suggesting that things might not be as weak for democrats as they first seemed. despite biden s 33% approval rating and the fact that 80% of the voters think the country is headed in the wrong direction, recent polls also show a slight majorit
iranian assassination plot in addition to former national security adviser john bolton. stand by for new details on federal charges against an iranian operative. later, i ll have a one-on-one interview with ambassador bolton. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. former president trump departed the new york attorney general s office just a little while ago, after he invoked the fifth amendment in a deposition in the probe of his business dealings. cnn s senior washington correspondent pamela brown is joining us with the late breaking developments. this follows the unprecedented fbi search of trump s florida home. yeah, what a week it has been for the former president, donald trump. he asserted his fifth amendment constitutional right today. he says in part because of the search on his home on monday by the fbi. and tonight, we re learning new details about why the fbi took that extraordinar