historic flooding in texas. not seen in decades. the u.s. markets finishing sharply lower for the second day in a row on more concerns about the health of the u.s. economy. can we bring inflation down without triggering a recession, and my answer to that question is i don t know. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. this tuesday, august 23, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and we begin with exclusive cnn reporting tied to the january 6 investigation. we ve learned the u.s. justice department has issued a new subpoena to the national archives for more documents related to its probe of the capitol riots. it is a possible sign the department is ramping up its investigation into the role former u.s. president donald trump and his staff may have played in the events leading up to the capitol insurrection. here is evan perez with more. reporter: we were told there was a second grand jury subpoena served to the natigs archives t prod
to the capitol insurrection. here is evan perez with more. reporter: we were told there was a second grand jury subpoena served to the natigs archives t produce additional documents. you remember the archives responded to a subpoena from the justice department back in may to provide all of the documents that they have provided to the january 6 committee. it appears that tom wind demwindham and the team are looking at the effort to impede the transfer of power and the role of the former president and some of his allies. it looks like they have decided that there is additional material that the january 6 committee perhaps did not know about and did not ask about that they are interested in as part of their investigation. it tells us that there is more that they know about. and to be clear this appears to be a separate investigation from what led the fbi to conduct
documents may have been held at that time, blocking a storage room to secure them and also complying with a subpoena for surveillance documents. on top of that, trump s team does make public an unusual message that his attorney sent to merrick garland just a few weeks ago after that search in the days after trump said in his message to garland, whatever i can do to take the heat down to bring the pressure down, just let us know. that is an unusual thing for someone even a former president to be sending during an ongoing investigation. now, on top of this all as we re looking at it, the justice department has not yet responded in court. they say through a spokesman monday night that they would like to. the judge also has not responded to this request in the southern district of florida federal court, but a few caveats here, it has been two weeks since that search of mar-a-lago and there has been a filter team already at work at the justice department making sure that evidence that shoul
welcome back. let me bring you up-to-date with the latest stories we re following. according to a cnn exclusive reporting, the u.s. justice department has issued another subpoena to the national archives for additional documents connected to the january 6 riots. it is a possible sign the department is ramping up its investigation into the role former u.s. president donald trump played into the attack on the u.s. capitol. and donald trump is offering his own version of the search of his mar-a-lago resort in a lawsuit dump trump s team is as for a special master to handle the investigation. we re just hours away from the start of the u.s. trading day and here is a look at u.s. futures. they are up, which is a different picture from yesterday. major indices all lower on monday over worries the u.s. federal reserve will once again hike interest rates by three quarters of a point next month. the nasdaq, s&p both plunged more than 2% and the dow dropped more than 640 points or 1.9%. u.s.
party to be appointed by the court, something called a special master, that can come in and review that the evidence that the fbi, the justice department, collected out of mar-a-lago was appropriately handled and that they have the ability to use that in their investigation. even more so though, trump is requesting for a pause on what the justice department is doing at this time as they examine whether there have been federal laws broken related to the handling of federal records and national defense information. so in his new court filing today, donald trump is arguing his constitutional rights may be at issue here. he may have potential privileges that should be protected, that these are things a special master should are. and on top of that, his attorneys are laying out details we hadn t known before, such as what happened in june between the justice department and donald trump and his team and specifically they are describing trump having some agency in authorizing a search of ma