to the fbi. former fbi special agent greg erie, who also monitors threats for the anti-defamation league says they re worried about violent extremists targeting the midterm elections this november, specifically targeting polling stations or circulating disinformation about the election results. wolf? so, so disturbing indeed. brian todd reporting for us. thank you very much. let s discuss this and more with cnn national security analyst, the former director of national intelligence, retired general james clapper. general clapper, thank you so much for joining us. what would you say to the former president of the united states and his allies for that matter who are attacking the integrity of the fbi amid this incredibly heightened threat level that s ongoing right now? well, i guess i would, if i had the opportunity, appeal to them to lower the temperature as apparently the former president trump himself said through an
or democrat, this is not machine you want counting your votes. reporter: meanwhile, rudy giuliani has officially become a target in another investigation, led by an atlanta prosecutor for an effort to flip results in georgia claiming it was rigged. the recount being done in georgia will tell us nothing because these fraudulent ballots will just be counted again. they look like they re pask out dope, not just ballots. it s quite clear they re stealing votes. reporter: giuliani is scheduled to appear before the grand jury tomorrow, but it s still unclear if he will answer questions or plead the fifth. the statements that i made are either attorney/client privilege because they were between me and him, or they were being made on his behalf in order to defend him. president trump may be right behind him in terms of liability. if rudy is in trouble as the target of an investigation, then i think trump almost certainly is as well. and as for the justice department, they ve made c
taking on the next challenge which is implementing this bill, but also selling it to the american people. wolf, all this comes as we should note that the first lady jill biden didn t return with the president from washington from south carolina where they had been vacationing because she tested positive for covid-19. she will stay there until she gets two consecutive negative tests. she s taking the antiviral known as paxlovid. because the president is considered a close contact, that s why you saw him wearing a mask when he was here at the white house today. kaitlan collins, thanks ahead. explosions rock an ammunition depot in russian-controlled crimea. we ll go live to ukraine when we come back.
we re learning new information tonight about one of the latest in a series of threats against the fbi since agents searched former president trump s florida home at mar-a-lago. cnn s brian todd is working the story for us. he s got new information. brian, the number of threats clearly is growing with serious concern about potential violence, against all forms of law enforcement. that s right, wolf. law enforcement personnel across the country are really on edge tonight. partly because the specific threats against them seem to be getting more ominous. the head of the fbi agent s association tells cnn threats against federal law enforcement are real and imminent. simply, a law enforcement source tells cnn there is an unprecedented number of threats the fbi is investigating against its personnel in the wake of the fbi s search of donald trump s home mar-a-lago.
to release the affidavit for the search of former president trump s florida home. how damaging could it be to release the affidavit amid an ongoing investigation relating to these highly classified documents? well, i m not an attorney here, but it would seem to me this could be potentially extremely damaging, since it would lay out the evidence year basis for the action that s been taken so far, notefably the seah and seizure, perhaps identify witnesses and thereby intimidate future witnesses, and in the course of the revelations, perhaps compromise or expose what was in some of the documents. so for me as a layman, i can t see agreement to expose that affidavit. i think personally it would be as by mistake. the justice department itself is warning that releasing the