we re live in the cnn weather center. also ahead clasheses b between rival milit in libya leaving dozens dead and others injured. we ll have the latest report. a trump appointed federal judge indicated she s likely it grant a request from the former president s legal team to appoint a special master to review evidence taken from donald trump s sprawling mar-a-lago estate. the application for a special master is seen by many experts as having no legal benefit and is possibly a delaying tactic. meantime, the director of national intelligence will advise senior lawmakers on the potential risk to national security posed by top secret documents being kept at trump s florida home. cnn s white house reporter natasha bertrand has more. reporter: cnn has learned that director of national intelligence avril haines confirmed to lawmakers on friday that the intelligence community is working together with the justice department to review all relevant documents that have been retriev
he stated he pled the fifth under the advice of counsel declining to answer the questions. this striking legal development, which we ll get into comes just two days after august 8, 2022 when the fbi searched a former president s home. both developments show the depths of donald trump s legal problems. neither means that he is in a legal sense guilty of anything to be precise. both mean that the concerns about donald trump s guilt about law breaking, about criminal evidence and criminal activity stretch from the highest levels of the doj to a separate new york probe to inside donald trump s mind. only he can make the decision that he made today. and let me tell it to you in plain english, it s a right he can exercise, but he made the decision, donald trump did that he faces a higher risk by testifying truthfully in the new york probe, which he chose not to do than by pleading the fifth, which he chose to do. it is a legal but a controversial move, which he has probably derided
search under a warrant signed by a judge. merrick garland says the doj will ask the judge to unseal the warrant and property seized. the department filed the motion to make public the warrant and receipt in light of the public s confirmation of the search, surrounding circumstances and the substantial public interest in this matter. washington post now reports the fbi was looking for classified documents related to nuclear weapons. the post sources did not say whether those documents related to u.s. nukes or those of another nation, nor whether any such documents were recovered. want to bring in former federal prosecutor and author of a spy in plain sight. so nice to have you on the program. washington post reporting is that the fbi was looking for classified nuclear weapons-related documents. if this is true, does it change the legal risk for president trump, what i might be charged with here? potentially. i mean, we know looking at the affidavit even the applicati