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
according to the washington post, but when it s time for the general election is the trump stamp of approval a maga scarlet letter. apparently some republicans think so. and now even the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is warning republicans may not retake the senate. let s discuss this with former republican congresswoman barbara comstock and former adviser for president, david gergen. congressman, what do you think about this? i know you used to serve in a sort of a swing district there in the northern virginia suburbs, kind of near where i grew up there in fairfax county. what do you think? it seems like a lot of these candidates are treating donald trump like beetlejuice try not to say his name too many times. what do you think? how should they handle this? well, certainly in the districts that make the majority, the swing and the purple districts, donald trump is an albatross, so you already have the situation in these purple states where, you know, as mitch m
search of mar-a-lago. prosecutors made the case for secrecy because evidence might be destroyed, they said, but the judge set in motion the possibility of releasing a redacted version of the affidavit as soon as next week. ludicrous, ridiculous, bs, those words coming from former trump senior officials who dispute the former president s claim that he had, quote, a standing order to declassify documents that he took from the white house. cnn reached out to 18 former top trump administration officials and all of them told us they never heard any such order issued during their time working for donald trump. we re going to have much more on that in just a moment. joining us now is former senior counsel to ken starr, former deputy assistant secretary for policy at the department of homeland security, paul rosen swig. i want to talk about the document released yesterday by judge reinhart which outlines some of the reasons why the fbi wanted to search donald trump s home and one o
that facility. new images first on cnn show little to no change in damage at the site compared to last month, but worries are continuing over the safety of europe s largest nuclear complex. both russia and ukraine are accusing the other of plotting attacks on or around the plant. now, the lack of independent access to the plant makes it impossible to verify what is actually happening there. yes, it s very hard for even u.s. officials to have visibility into exactly what the security situation is, but this is new video showing russian military trucks inside a turbine hall near the nouclear reactor. it s not clear when this video was taken. cnn s senior international correspondent is there for us. david, do we know if it s secure or the exact situation? reporter: the exact situation is very difficult to ascertain. what we do know is russian troops have been there for months now and they have placed military assets in and around that site. now, who is doing the shelling, whe
hello and welcome to the programme that brings together leading uk columnists, bbc specialists, and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. it s been a week either of sequels or of re runs. in the uk, we re waiting for sue gray again and her report on partying in government whilst the country was in covid lockdown. borisjohnson and the european commission are wrestling over northern ireland post brexit again. covid surges and an authoritarian government in asia locks down again and polling made australia s politicians nervous about the outcome of this weekend s election yes, you guessed it again. in the studio are janet daley american by birth, british by choice whose weekly column appears in the sunday telegraph, the irishjournalist suzanne lynch, who writes for the politicos brussels playbook and newly returned from filming in cambodia, the bbc s asia pacific editor, celia hatton. welcome