agreeing to testify against the company, but not trump himself. nfl quarterback deshaun watson suspended 11 games and fined $5 million, the largest in league history, after two dozen women accused him of sexual misconduct. illegal crossings at the southern border nearing an all-time high. the u.s. is on track to arrest 2 million migrants this year. our cameras are at the southern border as groups of migrants cross the rio grande, many intercepted by border patrol officers. texas governor greg abbott pressed about bussing thousands of asylum seekers to new york city and washington, d.c. overseas tonight, russia threatens to switch off europe s largest nuclear power plant. president zelenskyy warns the world is on the verge of a nuclear disaster. back here at home, police release images of a chaotic scene on the streets of las vegas. a violent carjacking chase and shootout. officers firing through the windshield. dash cam video shows the suspect intentionally ramming a
so walk us through. hey, fred. this is a big day yesterday. when we got this document. we learned a lot, frankly. and you almost never get this level of transparency. these are documents that the doj wanted to keep secret. thankfully it was released yesterday with some redactions. remember the timeline here. this was the warrant application that they submitted to get permission to search mar-a-lago. that came months after the national archives had already gone to mar-a-lago to retrieve 15 boxes of information that former president trump voluntarily turned over. voluntarily. once they looked in those boxes, they were alarmed with what they found and here is why. look at these numbers, fred. 67 confidential documents. 92 that were marked secret and 25 marked top secret going in ford from the least serious to the most serious. not only that, fred, this affidavit that we finally got to look at yesterday, it gave us new details about the classification markings on some of th
got it back. and our nbc news exclusive inside nasa s historic apollo mission control as america prepares to return to the moon this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening we are literally reading between the lines. the heavily redacted copy of the fbi s mar-a-lago search affidavit made public today, describing the whats but not the whos surrounding classified materials that were removed from the white house and taken to former president trump s florida estate, along with details of the fbi s month s long efforts to recover them and even references to information provided by a significant number of civilian witnesses. in its warrant application, the government saying it believed there were contraband, proofs of crime or other items illegally possessed at the trump estate after the fbi said after 15 boxes mr. trump returned to the national archives earlier this year, it discovered 184 classified items, including 25 top secret documents peter alexander has m
investigation and possibly chill witness cooperation. jessica schneider is here with the breaking details. what has the judge agreed to release? reporter: the judge has already made one crucial decision here. he says that he will unseal some relatively minor filings from the doj and this was something that the doj had said would be fine in their court filing, so the things that will be unsealed. it includes the department s motion to seal the warrant documents, also the court s order granting that motion to seal, and the criminal cover sheets here from the warrant application. the search warrant affidavit. so, those are relatively procedural, general information documents that will be unsealed. crucially, though, any information in those three documents that contain information about doj personnel, like names and contact information, that will all be redacted. so likely, what we re going to see later this afternoon won t contain anything substantive. it will just reveal som
18 former trump administration officials spoke exclusively with cnn to refute trump s attempted defense for stashing top secret papers at mar-a-lago. and the long-time chief financial officer for the trump organization pleads guilty for his role in a tax fraud scheme. allen weisselberg agreeing to testify against the former president s company but not against trump or his family. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with new moves by a federal judge to give the public more information about the historic fbi search of former president trump s florida home. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider reports on today s important hearing in florida. tonight, a federal judge in florida says he wants at least some portions of the affidavit justifying the mar-a-lago search made public, saying i m not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed. before deciding, magistrate