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astonishing. its unprecedented. but dont take my word for it. listen to the former attorney general, bill barr, who was on fox news today. thats right, fox. >> let me just say, i think the driver on this from the beginning was loads of classified information sitting in mar-a-lago. people say this was unprecedented. well, its also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put it in a country club, okay? and how long is the government going to try to get t...

"cancer is a teacher and i am paying attention to the lessons it holds for me." to which we might add, our best wishes for a full and speedy recovery. the news continues. lets handed over to laura coats and don lemon. >> thank you. i know people now are probably thinking, and we watch cnn or serena, choose dvr. tonight, in for don lemon. they said they wanted transparency, and boy, did they get it. the judge today releases a detailed inventory from the mar- a-lago search. 11 pages, l...

thursday admitting his role in a decades long tax fraud scheme. international community reacting this horror that this could be at the center of fighting. hello and welcome, it is friday, august 19, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast where a federal judge has released a few new documents related to the search of donald trumps mar-a-lago home and the details they contain on the potential offenses sharpen the focus on the former president. the same judge signe...

do those specific words create specific legal jeopardy for donald trump? im john berman with brianna keilar, and judge bruce reinhart released several procedural court documents used to justify the search of mar-a-lago, providing new details and maybe a sharper focus on the president himself as a potential subject of a criminal probe. this is the document that was released and there is specific information in here about willful retention. in other words, they say he knew he had documen...

very good thursday morning to you. im jim sciutto. >> im bianna golodryga. right now the biden administration intensifying its efforts to slow the spread of monkeypox. starting monday, hhs will make an additional 1.8 million vaccine doses available. the administration also taking steps to offer protection for the most vulnerable populations, making more vaccine available for places hosting large lgbtqi events. this comes as the cdc reports more than 13,500 monkeypox cases across the co...

surveillance video of the actual fbi search of his home. now, in a separate case, moments ago, allen weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of trumps family business, he pleaded guilty to a 15-year tax fraud scheme. well have more on that in just a moment. lets begin with katelyn polantz. katelyn, set the scene for us here. >> reporter: this afternoon, kate, were going to be listening for justice department prosecutors and how much theyre willing to say about this ongoing inve...

hurt its investigation. all of this as the former presidents fight with the fbi could be on the verge of a new escalation. cnn learning that some trump allies are pushing him to publicly release surveillance video of that fbi search. i want to get to cnns jessica snyder. the justice department has warned that make thing affidavit public would cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation. >> this is high stakes for the doj, alex. this hearing just star...

transparency in this unprecedented situation and he set in motion essentially a process where the justice department can come and propose redactions to this crucial document that backs up that search and seizure at mar-a-lago last monday. so during this hearing there was a media lawyer advocating for transparency here, saying the judge is in the place of the media, in the place of the public and becomes the gatekeeper here for what is released widely. but the judge also was hearing fro...

scheme, as he tries to avoid more jailtime. and also today, walmart, walgreens, and cvs, all ordered to pay up in a multimillion dollar opioid settlement. where will that money go, as prosecutors claim they helped fuel a silent epidemic that left so many americans hooked and hundreds of thousands dead. welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. well start with our politics lead. major developments when it comes to learning more details behind the mar-a-lago raid. this afternoon, u.s. magis...