classified documents. cnn has not confirmed "the washington post"'s reporting. kim whaley, the author of how to think like a lawyer and why, and stuart kaplan. we've got the heavy hitters. i'm so glad to have you here. lead the game with you, evan, because i want to know the possibility that the investigators got the help of an informant. what do you know? >> there were discussions ongoing between the trump team and the investigators, the fbi, and the prosecutors doing this investigation. something happened in the last couple of months that altered what these conversations were about, and "the wall street journal" is suggesting that thing that happened was an informant or somebody who was a witness and new there were

additional documents or believed there were additional documents being held at mar-a- lago that the fbi wanted to obtain. that's what precipitated and what prompted the activity we saw monday at mar-a-lago, that this informant or this person, this witness was able to tell the fbi there were additional things there they needed to go get, and that's why they did this on monday. >> are they reported they know who this informant might be if there is one? >> they don't say who this person may be and how that person would've come to know that information. the feature of mar-a-lago and trump world come as you know, as there weren't a lot of checks on people coming and going in that circle, so there's many, many people. we have been making calls, and there's a number of people that come to mind when you talk to people about who this could be.

>> the idea, kim, of who could have had access, seen something in some way or been witness to something is really curious. as evan points out, this investigation, the timeline has been going for a year. there was june of this year, june meeting at mar-a-lago between trump's lawyers, then this search happens. something had to have happened in that time to go from this conversation, the idea of discussions happening, to an unannounced execution of a search warrant at the estate. does this make sense to you in the context there may have been someone to tip off the officials? >> as you know, laura, the information in the affidavit that supports a warrant has to be fresh. it cannot be old information. there is new stuff that has come to light since trump basically stole 15 boxes of documents from the white house. i know there has been some talk of well, it was inadvertently

shipped, but trump is someone who lied over 30,000 times when he was in the white house. i'm frankly more interested in knowing not so much who tipped off the fbi, but whether donald trump tipped off others that might not be friends of america in having this information in mar-a-lago that reportedly include classified information. we also know there was a counterintelligence team that were there. i think that is much more important to focus on because it could there national security. the last point i i would make i unless this goes to trial after indictment, we might not see because merrick garland is so tightlipped. we really don't know, and there is energy from team trump to start circulating different narratives, so until it comes out of the justice department directly or in evidence in court of law, i'm not so sure we should worry so much about what we're hearing. >> i'm glad you reoriented it

away from the idea and focusing on the message as opposed to what they may have seen and what may have gotten the affidavit at the first place. you worked on the what what investigations could you mentioned merrick garland been tightlipped. is that important for the doj to come out and say something and explain what they have done? >> i don't actually. in this moment, there is so much misinformation. there is no way the good guys could manage the message. donald trump is brilliant at that, and of course, whatever happens on the side of the doj or the government to try to get accountability for the many, many acts of wrongdoing that happened in that four years under donald trump. it is a futile endeavor, so putting merrick garland's a nose to the grind stone and all of those public servants working on behalf of the american people? that's more important, but it's unfortunate the reports said the federal judge, the

magistrate assigned to this warrant is now getting death threats. that is the kind of thing that is extremely disturbing to me. >> it is on so many levels, and i think about that judge in new jersey who lost her son and has been fighting for protective measure and legislation to protect judges who are simply doing their jobs, and it's just stunning to think about. stewart, on this very notion, if there is not a tip, and i'm curious about this safe that trump has spoken about, but he claims was entered into with how would investigators know where to look, or the idea of, look. in this residence, there might be evidence or probable cause to believe evidence exists of a crime, whatever is inside, whatever evidence might be found, wherever the good stuff is kept, i'm looking there. >> laura, you know he has around-the-clock secret service detail, and look. they can easily be vulnerable to be put into a situation

either administratively, being they can brought in and questioned administratively by the fbi or under a grand jury subpoena with respect to what they see and hear. my assumption is you had secret service agents either disgruntled service protective agent who may have seen or heard something, and i think the word is immediacy. i think the execution of the search warrant tuesday is evident of some immediate action that needed to be taken. i think the word that the supreme court of the united states and you as a former federal prosecutor would understand, the rightness of the information must be e withi the last 30 to 45 days, and i think this is, as you know, you move forward and build a case one block on top of another,

and i think there was something that triggered the immediacy of the concern, either there were documents they were unaware of that had been taken that really impacted national security, or there was some other information contained within the safe are on the premises of mar-a-lago the required them to come in under such a heavy- handed execution of the search warrant. >> you think it could be a member of secret service for the detail of the former president? >> let me put it this way. in my career, we would generally try to target the weakest links. the secret service does an incredible job here they protect not only the president of the united states but other dignitaries, but they are vulnerable with respect to they have their job to protect, and of course they are vulnerable to being targeted with respect to if, in fact, they hear or see something, and i think if push came to shove, if you get a disgruntled agent who may not be in good favor, it may have been a breaking point, and he or she may have tipped off the fbi or someone else, and this

is how a case can trickle down and start. >> we don't know, but stewards, i'm leaning in and thinking about this, given what we have learned the past few weeks to a month from the testimony of cassidy hutchinson, surrounding conversations from secret service. they came to the limelight yet again about cooperation in conversations, and we've heard from congressman zoe lofgren about there was no coronation or knowledge of what happened, but to kim's point, evan, the information that's out there that might actually have been retrieved by the fbi in this incident, it may well been the goal for reconnaissance, to bring back what they knew belonged to the united states of america, but the doj is grappling with internally, and you were reporting about this. inside the doj, since the

search of mar-a-lago, there has been some disagreement, shall we say, about what to do next to inform the public. what can you tell us? >> i think -- >> well, look. >> evan, excuse me. >> i think there's a little bit of frustration amongst officials there because the fact is, as you know, merrick garland and the department generally do not comment on ongoing investigations. the former president, however, is the one that made this public, and so in so doing, he has called it a siege. he has portrayed agents as, perhaps, planting evidence during this search, so as a result of that, there is now -- there are now threats being made against fbi agents, and that's one of the concerns people have, and everyone understands and remembers jim

call me and what happened in 2016, talking about uncharged conduct. nobody want to repeat that, but there is a place between that, and just complete silence, which is what we have, and i think that's where officials are trying to grapple with , as you and i have talked about. they are in a catch-22, which is no matter what they say, it's probably going to be twisted, but right now, the only people talking are the former president and his allies, and they are portraying it in a way that is really harmful to the greater and deaf to the purpose of just disappeared >> you see the confidence come as being described, as shaken. i want to get back to you, but i want to follow-up with stuart because i love what your reaction was to evidence reporting, that fbi agents were trying to avoid spectacle in this search and also the mistrust that's now being talked about, even the accusation of planting evidence. what do you make of this? >> first of all, i think the insinuation that fbi agents would plant evidence is clearly unfounded, and that's just for

movies or fiction. but i am a little disappointed with respect to not fbi, from the director, even up to the attorney general and all those involved in strategizing and understanding and appreciating the potential fallout from this search warrant. meaning, they knew potentially what the collateral damage would be, and that's what it begs the question as to whether or not the reward was worth the risk with respect to the fbi's reputation, which going back to 2017 after the firing of james comey, really was devastating to the men and women, so now fast forward five years later, i think this is really tarnished and stained the fbi again and has set it back to a lot of people who said the fbi can't be trusted, the legitimacy of the fbi should be questioned, and so it begs the

bottom-line question as to whether or not this type of execution of this search warrant on a former president was really worth the price. i will say from my vantage point, i'm not so sure it had the great value that we're seeing playing out in social media and in the media because we're so divided as a country. >> him, i love your reaction to that notion, but also on the idea. you've written quite extensively. we've had conversations in the past about the idea of the inoculations surrounding either a sitting president or a former president, and the optics really in many ways governing the way which people decide the doj ought to be performing and acting. i just wonder from your perspective on the idea of the perils of investigating or searching the home of a former president. what goes and comes into your mind about that? is the juice not that squeeze democratically speaking?

>> well, to stuart's point, from my vantage point, we don't know what the payoff is because we don't have access to intelligence i gave rise to the search , and from a democracy point, as you and i have spoken many times about, laura, i take a long view. donald trump has had no accountability for -- two impeachments, the conspiracy giving rise to the january 6th insurrection, doing nothing, the cover-up, multiple states of fake electors try to use the justice department to bully people into stealing an election from the voters. american democracy could actually die in the next few years. we're also seeing big liars, election deniers populating elections across the country. the supreme court took it case that could very well say that

jerry mann third state legislature to decide that elections. what happens the next nominee of the republican party lose the popular vote and the legitimate electoral college vote based on the popular vote, but legislatures say we're going to declare the next president?t? that's what is all at stake. my mind, the fact that the fbi agents are willing to stand in the line of fire for democracy and take the heat, somebody has got to do something because we're hanging by a thread. i applaud those people. i have full faith in them. until there's evidence demonstrating there was some wrongdoing that is presented to a judge in a court of law that is tested, i am going to stand behind the men and women of the american government, civil servants who took an oath of office, and hope they can carry the ball across the finish line for our children and grandchildren when it comes to the freedoms of this country. >> a republic, if you can keep it. thank you, all. investigators are spending hours inside of mar-a-lago, or

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about trump and his florida home. >> my thought was how are they going to find anything in mar-a- lago because there are so many nooks and crannies. >> reporter: then "the washington post" said some boxes were found in the basement area, and she recognize another focal point just above the ballroom on the second floor. a former president's personal suite. >> around that same location is where his office would have also been, so those areas are private here they are accessible only to the family and also the staff that keep it clean and that kind of thing. >> reporter: trump spent hundreds of his dates and his presidency at his properties, mar-a-lago above all others. he played golf at his nearby course, ordered a missile strike on syria, and entertained the president of china, the prime minister of japan --

>> many of the world's great leaguers request to come to mar- a-lago in palm beach. they like it. i like it. we're comfortable. >> reporter: political allies were welcomed. so were members of the private club who insiders say a few years ago could enjoy the warm florida sun for a cool $200,000 fee. along with the pool and proximity to the leader of the free world. "the new york times" called mar- a-lago a kind of washington state house on steroids for members and their guests to enjoy level of access that could elude even the best connected of lobbyists. >> mar-a-lago is place you want to do business with him. it was not ever the white house. mar-a-lago was the place you close the deals because that's where he was comfortable. >> reporter: trump called all the shots, but then he lost the presidency put the patch anywhere, officials at the national archives said they collected 15 boxes of documents from mar-a-lago , some containing items marked as classified national security information, some containing papers which had been torn up

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even as investigations swirl around the former president, the summer primaries are showing the high price to pay for standing up to trump inside the gop. washington republican jaime herrera beutler conceding her race on tuesday. she is one of 10 house republicans who voted to impeach trump. now, so none of them have lost primaries are have chosen to retire, and congresswoman liz cheney wyoming faces her own tough primary battle next week. so big question is what does all of this tell us about the future of the republican party? joining me now, lieutenant governor of georgia, jeff duncan, and political commentator se cupp. this is the question on so many people's minds. i want to go to you, lieutenant governor, because the defeat of herrera butler, it is seen as a win for trump in the primary

that was all about her vote for impeachment, and i'm wondering what does that say to you, that people who essentially stood up in that way, who voted their conscience, which is i guess what you want your leaders to do, and did the right thing to suggest that she vote that way, why are they the ones paying the price? what does that say to you? >> it's unfortunately the focus on people. all those issues we should be focused on. unfortunately, some of that is taken out on those who did the right thing. were in the midst of a marathon reforming therepublican party. anyone who thought we could reform this overnight is wrong. it's going to take time to do it. >> on the one hand, there are those who say it was the wrong thing that was done . that's why they are try to vote the person out on the other hand, you do wonder if the only platform is as long as you are backward looking, it does not bode well for the future of the party, but se is next week.

you've got congresswoman liz cheney here g has a very tough primary challenge from somebody who has backed by trump , and she has, as you know, been arguably the most outspoken republican against trump, so what does that mean is she still loses? >> well, she's going to lose. i think that's pretty clear. i think she knows that that's the price that you pay, and that price, i think, was known back in 2016. it's why a number of us decided we weren't going to go off with donald trump into the hinterlands jetta sitting principles, ideas that folks like me would come up and had cared about as bed rocks, things like anti-protectionism, the deficit, strong national defense, kinds of bedrock, traditional, orthodox things that drove the republican

party. trump did not care about that, and he convinced republicans not to care much about it either, and he made the party oriented around him, and that meant that you either needed to endorse what he did or be quiet about it, shut up about it, and that meant saying bunkers, bananas, at times dangerous stuff. a conspiracy theories, the lies, the violent rhetoric, stuff that is just a fact now of the republican party, but that's how holy he remained in the party of his image. if i had told republicans six years ago this is where they would be chasing after a demagogue who does not care about any of the things they cared about, they would have laughed at me, but that's where we are. it is no surprise thathe folks who dare to stand up to him are being shown the door,

unelected , as jeff said. >> lieutenant governor, on that point, the idea of if the republican party, to se and many others is wholly unrecognizable, the idea of the identity crisis fully fleshed out, you have to wonder if all the critics are pushed out. if all those who are willing to say something different or more in line with what traditional republicans have asserted, do you have fears for the longevity of the republican party, or is this something that is going to enter or allow for maybe a third party system that reclaims some aspect of this? >>- i'm going to fight for my conservative values, and i did is a golden opportunity, but it's going to take time. you've got folks on the republican side that now for

the first time, a majority of them don't want donald trump to run again. those numbers might oscillate with the additional attention he's gotten with the fbi search, but they are tracking in that direction, and you've got a middle that's completely embarrassed that their vote for joe biden and all the misgivings that he has given america the last two years . if we put the right candidate forward that's got solutions, that's energetic, that's not 78 or 82 years old, they have lost their best fastball, so let's get somebody capable of leading this country in the right direction, helping our inflation issues, put us back on the map with national security, understand immigration, the realities of emigration. we got a chance to convince the middle and win for decades, but it's going to take time to get there, the quality of the candidate matters but if we win the house and shop a bunch of marjorie taylor greenes in there, we will be republican embarrassment the next couple of years.

>> is the clock running out? the primaries are coming up, midterm elections. 2024, it is still two years away, but everyone is looking towards to figure out what's happening next . is the shot clock going to run out? i hate to mix analogies. you used to baseball, lieutenant governor, but i'm going to go to another one. is the shot clock running up here? >> 2024 is around the corner, and trump is the only one who has expressed interest in getting the race. everyone else seems a little cautious around him, as if he has no competition in a party that wants no competition of ideas anymore, then we know where this is going. it's pretty inevitable. but to the lieutenant governor's point, if this shame that these are the candidates americans are forced to choose between because the vast majority are folks are somewhere in the middle on most

issues. they are not to the far left, not to the far left, and they don't feel either party represents them. they feel orphaned. so, something has got to change with this political system. it is not all trump's fault. it is not all where trump has taken the republican party. these two parties don't get most people anymore, and we don't have options. there's no apparatus to come up with other candidates and loosen the hold the rsd and the dnc have on presidential elections, so it's a shame, and i can't see a way out within the next couple of years. >> lieutenant governor, se cupp, as we all know, a government for and by the people, the idea of democracy coming down to, as he suggests, the lesser of two evils, probably not what the vision was for people to think about it we'll see where it goes from here. thank you both. she was 17 and pregnant, and she did not want to have a baby, so she messaged her mother over facebook, but now those messages she sent are

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a nebraska mother and her now 18-year-old daughter are facing multiple charges in a case that involved police obtaining facebook messages between the two women, and one of those messages show authorities say evidence of an illegal abortion as well as a plan to hide the remains. cnn lucy capital has the latest on the charges . team analyst

is here as well. lucy, let me start with you here. celesta jessica burgess, they went facing charges related to an abortion at first, so what changed here? >> let's talk about how this unfolded. the court documents show initially, investigators were looking into reports of a stillborn that may have been disposed of. the daughter, according to court documents, celeste, telling investigators she had miscarried a stillborn, and she her mother married the fetus. police exhumed the remains they found that might've been burned, initially, the mom and daughter were only charged with a single felony for removing , concealing, or abandoning a body as well as two misdemeanors per during those early interviews, investigator saw celeste scrolling through facebook messenger to pinpoint the date of what she claims was

this miscarriage. that prompted investigators to ask for a search warrant. they got the search warrant. facebook turned over data pertaining to the mother and daughter's accounts, and those private messages appear to have made references to abortion pills, also burning the, quote, evidence comes after reviewing data headed over by facebook, authorities added felony abortion-related charges against the mother, laura. >> to be clear, lucy, they were charged before roe v. wade was overturned. it is that right? >> the investigation began before roe v. wade was overturned. the investigation started in april, but nebraska already had a law on the books banning abortion after 20 weeks. this miscarriage or abortion, depending what the evidence turns up, the pregnancy we know and to that 28 weeks, but again, these court documents show how abortion cases could potentially be prosecuted. >> to that point, they were charged before authorities got

their hands on the facebook messages, but there case does show how private information, the messages they sent online potentially could be used against them in a court of law, and in this instance, to enforce abortion laws. what strikes you about that in particular? >> this is the case, laura, that every woman has dreaded happening. we talked about this from hypothetical standpoint, and now we're faced with a real- life case where someone, these two women have engaged in what they believed to be a very private conversation using the social media app. that app then get the subpoena from law enforcement and turns over what they believe to be this private conversation, and then the information in what they believed to be this private conversation is used to levy criminal, in this case, criminal charges against his

mother and daughter. what is so disturbing about this case is that facebook messenger, depending on what device you use and what button you push, sometimes those messages are encrypted and that information is not even available to facebook, but if you're not on the right device and don't push the right button, then facebook has access to that information, and they can make that information available to law enforcement in a way they did in this case. that is what is so disturbing. >> let me ask you, areva, on that point the idea of having a subpoena issued to the holder of the platform that has a messages, is it the fact that this is related to abortion- related charges that makes this distinct, or is this actually in the essence not a pure novelty, right? the idea of not being able to get into data. >> we have seen other cases, laura, not involving abortions where law enforcement has issued a subpoena to a social media site, and they have released that information to law enforcement, but in this case, this abortion , post roe

v. wade, there's been a lot of talk about menstrual cycle tracking apps and that information perhaps being made available to law enforcement, and in this case, just a conversation between a mother and daughter about what may have been a miscarriage, what may have been an abortion again being made available to law enforcement, and this is what women have dreaded. that law now reaches into every aspect of your life, including what you believe to be a private conversation with your own mother on a social media app. >> i do wonder, lucy, what has been facebook's response because the idea, on the one hand, people often lament facebook and nothing seems private, feels private, that they essentially on the communications. we heard about that about the photographs, and that's the theory, but what have they said about this case because there has been quite a reaction to what areva is talking about, but the prospect of communications being used in these types of cases and

beyond? >> absolutely. facebook and its parent company made us that this was not going to be an investigation in abortion. they said in a quote, nothing in the valid warrants we received from local law enforcement in early june prior to the supreme court's decision mentioned abortion. the warrants consented charges related to a criminal investigation , and court documents indicate that police at the time were investigating a case of a stillborn baby who was burned and burie d, not a decision to have an abortion, but this case does raise question about how these tech companies will respond to law enforcement requests for data that could lead to the prosecution of people obtaining or offering abortions in other cases in other states.

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emotions, running high in court today. vanessa bryant, wife in tears during opening statements, and her lawsuit against los angeles county over grew some photos taken at the helicopter crash that killed her husband nba

legend kobe bryant and her beloved daughter gianna. cnn national correspondent natasha chen was inside the courtroom and joins me now. natasha, it is so devastating to think about what has happened, and this trial is now here. tell us what you heard today, and tell us what these photos show , and what is mrs. bryant alleging about them? >> reporter: it was a dramatic first day, and the question about what the photos show, that is the thing. vanessa bryant has never seen them. they have not appeared online in 2 1/2 years, and the second plaintiff named christopher chester who lost his wife and daughter in the same crash has also never seen them. the case really centers around the emotional distress these families say has been inflicted upon them just by the sheer idea these photos taken of their loved ones' remains at the crash site could potentially pop up online at any point in the future and the

anxiety that mrs. bryant has in just knowing that possibility is out there. her attorney, louis lee, made in opening statement today describing that emotional distress in saying that the deputies should not have been taking these photos. it was no part of their job duties, and that he claims the l.a. county sheriff alex villanueva swept this under the rug, at these deputies to delete the photos, did not do a thorough forensic exam of the devices, did not check if the photos were uploaded to the cloud, and did not truly discipline these deputies. >> it's unbelievable to think about, and it's a point you raise, the allegation. this was not part of some official investigation or part of the regular course of investigative proceedings, so what has l.a. county said about this? how have they responded to these allegations? >> l.a. county seth taking photos of a site like that is part of their job , and they describe, for

example, one of the deputies being the first person to have made it up the hill to that crash site. we're talking about a really tough terrain that morning. it was very foggy. it was very muddy here it it took him about an hour to get up there, and she said the attorney said that had he not taken site photos, he would not have been able to communicate to the command center 1200 feet below . those folks were determined based on photos how to respond, and it's not just the search and rescue they had to strategize about you it was also the firefighters having to strategize how to put out this wildfire that had sprung up because of the crash, so the attorney for the county alleges that it was part of their job here they do say, they do concede it was not great how it was circulated. for example, some of the deputies were sharing it . it it one case, the plaintiffs say they were being shared between

deputies playing a video game, playing "call of duty," and one deputy trainee show the photos to a bartender at a bar he was at. i think the county concedes the way it was spread was not appropriate, but that they feel it was contained, laura. >> it's unbelievable and unimaginable to think about it being shared that way. i understand there were more tears. bryant's first witness was lakers general manager rob polanco, and he broke down while testifying. is that right? >> he could not begin his first answer without starting to cry. he described how he was best friends with kobe bryant and how he's the godfather of gianna, so you can imagine how close the families are. he said he spoke to vanessa bryant pretty much every day before this crash and ever since. he was with her the day of the crash. he went her to the sheriff's station where he said to the court today that he had helped vanessa bryant seek assurances from the sheriff the day of the crash to make sure that site was really blocked off to people , lookie loos,

who wanted to take photos, so, he described the anguish that vanessa bryant experienced, then finding out that deputies actually did take close up photos of the remains of their loved ones , and some of the descriptions, laura, the attorneys talked about, having potentially images of close-ups of limbs, burnt flesh. indicates that the other plaintiff, christopher chester, his attorney had to tell the court, had to tell the jury mr. chester's wife was actually severed and they never found her legs, so you can only imagine what these photos might have shown, laura, and the type of anguish these families have been worrying about whether they will ever surface. >> the anguish continues this day. this is an unbelievable story. thank you for giving us all the information could we're watching very closely, natasha.

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