as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday nights. good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle. today, as its seventh hearing on the january 6th committee laid out its case, to donald trump summoned its mob to the capitol? on a december 19th, 2020 tweet promising that that they would be wild. this tweet served as a call to action and as some cases as a call to arms, for many of donald president trump s most loyal supporters. donald trump s 1:42 am tweet electrify to galvanize supporters especially the dangerous extremists and the oath keepers, proud keepers and other white nationalist groups. there were many revelations about the days that led up to january 6th. after joe biden had officially been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, we learned that trump was considering announcing a march ahead of his rally. the committee has obtained this draft, an dated tweet from the national archives. and includes a step saying president has seen. the draft
good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, august 9th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. it is an extraordinary day and we begin with that dramatic escalation in donald trump s legal problems and the fbi searches his estate in south florida yesterday unannounced. the former president posted just before 7:00 p.m. last night that mar-a-lago was quote currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. adding, they even broke into my safe. a source familiar with the search tells nbc news that the investigation is related to the transfer of class fy classified government documents from the white house to mar-a-lago when trump left office, in february it was reported that 15 boxes were taken improperly to the president s estate. and at the time, the department of justice was asked to investigate. a source familiar with the investigation tells nbc news that boxes of documents were seized during yesterday s fbi search. the for
congress that her agency is conducting a damage assessment from the classified documents found at former president donald trump s home. reporter: top intelligence official avril haynes sent a letter to two chairs of committees in the house of representatives where she confirmed for the very first time that a damage assessment will be done of the documents that were recovered from mar-a-lago. let me read for you from this letter. she told the lawmakers, quote, that the department of justice and the office of the director of national intelligence are working together to facilitate a classification review of relevant materials including those recovered during the search. okay. that means they re going to do a review to figure out how classified these documents were. there s a few different levels of classification. and they re going to figure that out first. she went on to say, odni, that s the director of national intelligence, will also lead an intelligence community assessm
cnn s natasha bertrand joins me now. the director of national intelligence is taking this very seriously. she is and rightfully so, right, because of all the sensitive information we believe was in these documents and we re learning that the director of national intelligence, avril haines has written a letter to the oversight and house intelligence committees telling them that she has begun a classification review and a review of the risk to national security that these kind of loose documents could pose. now, clearly this is kind of an escalation here. we weren t sure whether the intelligence community would be able to see the documents that had been retrieved from mar-a-lago because they are part of an active criminal investigation, and the fbi typically holds very closely any evidence in those probes. but obviously the risk here, the potential risk to national security contained in these documents is just too great for the intel community to not be made aware of what s p
abortion even though her fetus was diagnosed with a fatal condition. i want you to imagine what it s been like to continue this pregnancy for another six weeks after this diagnosis. the woman at the center of the controversy shares her story. meantime, nasa s most powerful rocket is set for monday s moon mission launch. artemis is on the launch pad and ready to fly. now we re going back to the moon to stay, to live, to learn, to build. and a missouri school district reinstates paddling as punishment. but would you want your children spanked at school? it s something we don t anticipate using frequently. this is an opt-in only option for parents. i m pamela brown in wash washington. you re live in the cnn newsroom. and just into the cnn newsroom, a federal judge has scheduled a thursday hearing to consider donald trump s request for a special master to oversee the fbi s review of evidence. she says she has preliminary attempt to make that appointment. just on