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it but it was ererie and it is still dangerous as the canadian wildfires continue to burn. and one-time presidential candidate, the founder of the christiane broadcasting network pat robertson has died. this is cnn news central. you are looking at live pictures outside two u.s. federal courthouses on the left there miami, florida. on the right, washington d.c. we are waiting to see if there is any movement from two federal grand juries. why? the justice department has officially notified trump's legal team that he is a target in an ongoing federal investigation. it is the clearest sign that we have seen yet that former president trump could be indicted accused of failing to turn over classified documents.

the former president trump has repeatedly denied any wrong doing in the probe saying he declassified the documents while in office. in an interview on wednesday, trump said he was not told he would be indicted but the decision to tell the former president trump -- the former president that he is a targeted, does show that jack smith is focused on the actions of the president and not just the actions of people around him. katel katelyn polantz is here along with evan perez. we're going to start with you, evan. this new information sent to donald trump's lawyers, does that mean that an indictment is imminent or not? >> reporter: it certainly means that the investigators at this stage are notifying the former president at this stage of this investigation, it means they're about to make that decision or certainly an indictment could, could be imminent. look, we've never been here before.

weave never been in a position where a former president could be facing an indictment, could be facing criminal charges. and it really just, you know, the word unprecedented and the word momentous, i think, gets overused but this is definitely one of those times where it's appropriate to use that word. the former president is looking down at a number of possible charges, the justice department laid out some of those possible charges in the documents when they -- when they released those documents about the search at mar-a-lago last august. that includes the mishandling, the illegal retention of national security -- national defense information, obstruction of justice, those are among the possible charges that we're looking at. and the fact that is that for the justice department to provide that notification, which prosecutors can do, they don't necessarily have to do it but they do it out of abundance of caution in case there's

something that a defendant wants to present. >> all right. i'm going to go now to katelyn pol polantz. can you tell me from your perspective how this went down? what was found exactly inside trump's mar-a-lago property that really started all this? >> reporter: sara, this has been a protracted effort by the federal government to get federal records back from donald trump. so it started after he left the presidency, the national archives really wanted him to return any documents he might have in possession. they realized he had some. and then when trump finally did send back 15 boxes to the national archives in january of 2022, that's when this criminal investigation began because that's when the federal government looked through those boxes and realized there were many classified records within them or documents with classification markings on them. so the intelligence community gets involved, the justice

department gets involved. they subpoena trump and say turn over everything in your possession. we need anything with a classification marking on it. his attorney went and looked, found 38 records, called the justice department, they came down and claimed it from mar-a-lago in june. but then, that's whenever the investigation really heated up. that's when the justice department continued to look and realize that there was evidence that they believed would convince them there had been records concealed and removed and they had not recovered everything in trump's possession leading to that fbi search in august. that's when, i was just looking at the affidavit that the fbi put together, the document that they put together showing exactly what they removed from mar-a-lago in august and it is extraordinarily detailed. it doesn't tell us what documents specifically but it is documents from the u.s. government marked with classification markings at every level, including top secret.

the sort of thing that should never be in an unsecured location out or out of hands. that's what the fbi found and from then on the investigation continued as to whether or not there was obstruction of justice and trying to get back records from donald trump, an effort that continued into this year whenever the justice department said turn over a record we believe donald trump was talking about on an audio recording waving around in a room and even then trump's attorneys were unable to locate that particular document. >> thank you katelyn polantz and thank you to evan perez. appreciate it. if we see any movement from either place we'll go there right now. with us now, former federal prosecutors. william, first to you a former president is a target in an

investigation. that in and of itself is historic. i don't know if you had the privilege to represent anyone receiving a federal target letter before but what must that have been like for president trump's legal team? >> let's unpack what a target letter is. it is a notification from the justice department that your client is -- that the justice department has substantial evidence linking your client to a crime. that they are the primary focus of an investigation. that's far beyond well, you got pulled into an investigation we've been working on and we might have evidence linking you. it's quite significant and very pointed. so it's also a sign that the justice department is also thinking about charges and look, wink wink, odds are that charges are coming. so any attorney ought to be concerned if they receive such a letter from prosecutors. >> we've been looking at both florida and washington d.c. if we can get those shots so people can see what it looks

like outside the courtrooms right now. quiet, not a lot of activity right now there, katy. but walk us through the mechanics of how this would work if there were to be an indictment. one of these grand juries -- we don't know if the washington d.c. grand jury is still meeting. one of them would have to vote, correct? >> yes. one of them would have to vote. it is significant where the doj chooses to bring the case, the venue and ultimately merrick garland has to make the decision to charge. if there's a vote for the indictment, it has to be affirmed by the doj itself. once the indictment is unsealed, we will know specifically the charges, whether it relates to the actual classified information itself or more of the obstruction piece of things, or both. and i think the most interesting part might be if there's any conspiracy allegations as well. ultimately when we get that information we'll know where they're bringing the case, the venue and the nature of the

charges maybe not all the specific charges underlying that but maybe that's dependent on how they issue the indictment. >> if the documents were in florida, if the documents were hidden or kept it happened in florida and if there was obstruction perhaps it may have been in florida, or maybe not, katy. talk to me about the possibility of an obstruction charge and if you need another crime to issue that? >> sure. so there's a lot of questions about can you charge somebody with obstruction of justice if you're not going to charge them with quote/unquote an underlying offense related to the investigation. the answer is yes, it can be charged but it's not as strong of a case typically because you need to, as a prosecutor, still prove the intent to obstruct and when you have, let's say for instance, documents that ultimately -- i know this is up for debate, may or may not have been rightfully in the possession of former president trump and he somehow moved them

or put them in different areas of his own property, can he then subsequently charged with obstruction for moving what is later determined to be his own property? that's a significant question for the doj to consider in a case like this. so the obstruction is something that is separate. it doesn't require a finding that the classification status was one way or the other but it is a significant consideration for prosecutors in proving beyond a reasonable doubt that he intended to obstruct an investigation. >> so elliott, look, the target letter in and of itself is a reason to be on high alert for the possibility of action in washington d.c. or florida sometimes perhaps soon. another bit of information we learned the last few days is that the former chief of staff mark meadows did testify to a jury about both the january 6th investigation and the investigation into the classified documents as mar-a-lago. if again i'm putting you on the former president's legal team right now. if you see that mark meadows has

testified, what concerns you about that? >> his proximity to one on one conversations with the former president would be the most troubling if i were the former president here. as former chief of staff he would have had a front row seat to number one firsthand conversations with the president he was part of, but number two virtually everything the president did. mark meadows on january 6th was in the oval office with the former president and would have been privy to every conversation he had with members of congress and others around the white house at that point. number two, with respect to documents, mark meadows was one of the president's or the white house's representatives to the national archives. every conversation in which the national archives conveyed that as of the moment the next president is sworn in, those documents are no longer yours, they belong to the american people, that would speak to possibly the president's intent to possessing the documents or

maybe even an obstruction of justice charge. in general if you're being investigated and people around you are talking to law enforcement, you have a problem. and setting aside the president's guilt or innocence the mere fact that his chief of staff was speaking to a grand jury is itself cause for alarm. >> one more question quicklye o within donald trump's sprawling legal team. this is a quote from the article, multiple lawyers told me there was no meaningful coordination across the groups large defense teams handling matters to provide updates or compare notes across the groups. i think we've become accustomed to chaos within the trump world but when it's within your legal team and you might be facing indictment how big of a problem is that? >> it's a big problem. you have to think through your strategy going into any federal charge, starting with is the

defendant going to plead guilty to an offense, a minor offense, what conduct will he or she admit to? setting aside the question whether or not the president has an incentive to plead guilty to a crime, it's important for anyone to face, do you plead to a misdemeanor, do you agree to never run for office again. all of those questions are fair for a legal team to sort out. if they're fighting about questions like that, they're going to have big problems down the road. so it happens all the time when you have, you know, as that reporting in sprawling big legal investigations but this is quite a significant one and one that ought to concern the client. >> don't go far. we're all watching florida and washington very closely this morning. >> very close to that. in the meantime we have this just in. the founder of the christian broadcasting network, pat robertson has died. they announced his passing this

morning. stephanie elam has a look at his life and legacy. >> lord god fill me now with your spirit. >> reporter: pat robertson was a figure of the religious right. he founded the christian broadcasting network, the advocacy group, the christian coalition and the regent university. but he was also known for his outspoken views on homo sexuality, feminism and a host of other hot button issues. >> there isn't one civilization that survived that openly embraced homosexuality. >> he agreed that god allowed the 9/11 terrorists to succeed because america moved religion to the left. the yale law school graduate had a religious awakening in the '50s. he bought a bankrupt station and

it became the first outlet for the first christian network. its flag ship program was the daily show he hosted, the 700 club. named for the 700 donors who launched it in 1961. >> i plan to make a formal announcement of my candidacy for the republican nomination for the president of the united states. >> robertson whose father was a congressman and senator ran as a presidential candidate in 1988. he came in second in the iowa caucus but didn't fair as well in other states. he dropped out of the race and returned to hosting the 700 club where he made bold predictions that didn't always come true. >> romney will win the election. >> you believe that? >> i absolutely believe that. >> what makes you believe it? >> the lord told me. >> pat robertson, who never shied away from expressing his

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of philadelphia where the air quality has been declared very unhealthy. you can see the haze sitting over top. we want to show you also, take a look, this is a life picture from new york city right now. that is a vast improvement and it's not good. the smoke gave new york a new distinct and one it has never wanted. the city with the world's worst air quality right now. incredibly today appears to be a slight improvement from yesterday when new yorkers were facing this. it was this strange other worldly orange world that you could not escape. let me show you a time lapse that we put together. the city skyline disappearing over a period of hours in behind this orange haze. the poor visibility is forcing more delays today. laguardia airport facing another ground stop. this was yesterday shows what it was like for passengers landing at the airport. you can imagine coming in, descending through this cloud of

smoke. athena jones is back out in it for us this morning. what are you seeing out there? how is it feeling? i can't get my voice back still today. it still feels the same. >> reporter: good morning, kate. it's -- the situation has abated somewhat here in new york city but you can still see the smoke looking out over brooklyn we've seen tons of people wearing masks. a lot more than we've seen the last couple of years wearing masks outdoors. officials have kwwarned that conditions could worsen later in the day, the air quality index is 194, 195 right now. that's unhealthy for sensitive groups. it was at this level yesterday but by 5:00 p.m. it got up to 484, according to the mayor. that's what officials are concerned about, the advisory remains in effect until tonight here in new york city, until 11:59 p.m. and, of course, they're advising everyone to

wear a mask, new york city has canceled all outdoor events and the state is handing out a million masks to folks who want to make sure they are protected to make sure they're protected from the harmful tiny particles that can infiltrate the lungs and get in the bloodstream. >> like everyone else in new york yesterday i was taking video and pictures like what it was like when i was outside. the camera doesn't do it justice. it's wild to see it in person. that orange just sitting on top of the city. and now, all of this, or a lot of this, is now expected to move to the south. what is in going to mean? >> reporter: that's exactly right. so folks south of us will begin to experience what we've been expe experiencing, the smell, the sense of being in a cloud. we know the bulk of the smoke that hit new york is expected to drift south towards baltimore, washington d.c.

you heard what's going on in philadelphia. this is affecting air travel, there was a ground stop in new york now the faa is saying they're having to manage the flow of traffic into philadelphia, down to charlotte, north carolina. people south of here are. ing to experience what we've been dealing with here for several days. this is the beginning of the fire season in canada it might go away but it doesn't mean it's coming back. >> thank you, athena. this is really wild. it's not a gee whiz for one moment, it was very dangerous yesterday walking around. >> you could feel it. headaches people are reporting all sorts of things. this is what it's like, by the way, in california during fire season at times. >> i never appreciated it. my voice i cannot get it right. >> because all that particulate is getting in there. speaking of which, it's not just about us here in new york.

turns out 75 million americans across the midwest, northeast, and southeast are under air quality alerts. president biden ordered all fire fighting assets be deployed to help canada with the fires. dr. sanjay gupta is with us. when you see the air you can see it's bad. how unhealthy is it? >> reporter: it can be wildly unhealthy. the way to think about it is to visualize this. breathing in air, which is 21% oxygen, mostly nitrogen. now you add this particulate matter to it. if it were a liquid, it would be a crunchy liquid trying to give you a visual to imagine it. now you 'breathing in the air filled with particulate matter. it can be irritating to your

eyes, to your airways, to your lungs. i don't think people realize, sara, it can get into your bloodstream that's how fine this particulate matter is. once it gets into your bloodstream it could cause clotting people with underlying heart disease but didn't have a problem could find themselves having symptoms. there's a 70% increase typically outside of hospital cardiac arrests and heart issues when you have bad air. these are the concerns. respiratory problems, cardiovascular problems, women who are pregnant having issues with pre-term labor. it's the old and young most at risk. but to your point, athena's point, kate, everybody is at risk when you have air quality that's this bad. >> what do we do to protect ourselves? in i'm seeing the masks that remind you of the pandemic again coming back out. >> yeah. well, first of all, i guess the most basic things being obvious here.

you need to avoid this. stay inside as much as possible. you know, think of this like a big weather event. you check the weather, if it's raining really hard you don't go out maybe. check airnow.gov put in your zip code and get a reading. you find that later in the day it typically is getting worse. you get some of the low levelo z -- ozone coming off the ground. masks can be helpful. they have to be good high quality masks. fitting on your face. n-95s, their design came from the environmental world so they can be very effective if they're worn properly here. think about the air quality inside. one thing the pandemic has taught us, we have to improve the filtration of our air inside. more air exchanges can be helpful. if you have asthma, this is one of those times people typically

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welcome back to cnn "news central". our top story this hour, the justice department has off officially notified trump's legal team that he is a target in an ongoing federal investigation. it's the clearest sign we've been given yet that former president trump could be indicted accused of failing to turn over classified documents. the former president denies any wrong doing in the case. saying he declassified the documents while he was in office. and former vice president mike pence is weighing in on his running mate's woes. in a town hall last night he said the justice department should not indict him for his mishandling of classified documents. >> let me be clear, no one is above the law. i hope there's a way for them to

move forward without the dramatic and divisive step of indicting a former president of the united states. >> despite that pence did not shy away from criticizing former president trump. let's get to more on this. what mike pence said last night, what does it mean for iowa voters today? >> reporter: i think the cleanest way for me to explain this, kate, is that when mr. pence said that he wanted to shy away from all of that, from the distractions, from the indictment, and he said he wanted to talk about the kitchen table issues that impacts iowa voters that's when he got significant applause. this is something that right now, for people here in iowa, it feels a bit far away, a little bit hard for them to digest. but the reality is is that it is still going forward. and it's something that

mr. pence is certainly going to have to answer. it's also very clear that he is going to have to walk a very difficult line. how does he respond to the news about donald trump in the coming days and then how does he then talk to the electorate that might not want to hear it, an electorate that's been reshaped by donald trump and still make sure that they support him. and i want you to listen to this answer. he's walking a difficult line there. he's going to go so far but not so far as to say he agrees with donald trump on a lot of things. listen on to what his answers is on whether he believes january 6th defendants should be pardoned? >> i have no interest or intention of pardoning those who assaulted police officers or vandalized our capitol. they need to be answerable to the law. >> reporter: and mike pence's pac just released an ad this morning and it was very tough.

tougher than what we heard mr. pence say yesterday on the campaign trail. it calls donald trump, quote, a weak man who failed the test of leadership and, quote, a so-called leader. now pence is back on the trail today, scheduled to make a stop at a pizza restaurant in the lunchtime hour, kate. >> as the campaigning continues it was really interesting getting pence's take and hearing him as a presidential candidate really for the first time and how he is, as you say, walking a fine line, threading a needle, taking direct questions, giving answers when it comes to his former boss. we see the ever expanding republican presidential field we'll all continue to follow today. thank you. this morning a gruesome attack in a town in the french alps, six people including four children rushed to the hospital after being injured in a knife attack. police say the suspected attacker has been arrested.

cnn's melissa bell joins us now. i understand we're getting new information. >> reporter: that's right. weave just been hearing from a press conference, john, at which the french prime minister was, in fact -- this is a story, as you can imagine, gripped the whole of france, so rare are these tragedies, children that were specifically targeted. we've been seeing this morning some of the by stander footage emerge. people filming on their phones. it's being to watch. we know a young syrian refugee, a man who had gotten asylum in sweden back in 2013 who found himself in france where he applied for asylum, had it rejected since he had it inside of europe. and for reasons we still don't understand went on a rampage this morning with a knife. this is part of a terror plot, anti- anti-terror authorities are keeping an eye on it.

what unfolded when you look at the images and they're difficult to watch. is this man going through the park, a park on a lake side, popular tourist spot, going on a rampage, pushing the grown ups out of the way to stab the small children and what we've been hearing just in that press conference, john, of the six people critically wounded, two adults, four children, some of them i'm afraid between life and death, 22 months old, two 2 years, one 3-year-old, a couple of them not french, absolutely dreadful news coming from that lake side town and, of course, hugely shocking to the whole country again where this doesn't happen. >> such young children, how awful. melissa bell keep us posted, thank you. sara? >> the house oversight chairman dropping plans to hold the fbi director in contempt.

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it shouldn't surprise us, of course a deal came together at the 11th hour late last night. we know james comber was talking to the fbi about this new deal the fbi was putting forward, which is to allow all members of the house oversight committee to review this internal law enforcement document that includes unverified allegations that joe biden was involved in a bribery scheme with a foreign national when he was vice president. as part of this deal, comber and jamie raskin get to see two additional documents. comber said last night saying allowing all members to review this record is important to conducting oversight of the fbi and holding it accountable to the american people. raskin is slamming james comber saying the fbi has been very accommodating. both comber and raskin got to go

to a secure room in the capitol, see the documents at the heart of this dispute, and my colleague is reporting as soon as today other members can go into a secure room to view this document as well, kate. >> we will see what, if anything, we hear coming out of it, because that was some of the concern coming from the fbi and how far they disseminated the information in the document. good to see you, sarah. thanks so much. this morning the pope is alert and breathing easily. that update coming from the vatican after he under went three hour abdominal surgery. doctors say there were no complications and the 86-year-old will stay in the hospital for around 10 days to recover. the surgery repaired a hernia that was apparently getting worse. the word is the night went well, ba barbie. >> reporter: yeah the night went well. that's what the vatican is telling us, the hospital is telling us.

he was in this hospital in march for an infectious bronchitis. he doesn't get around well, using a wheelchair, a cane. it's going to be interesting to see how long it takes to get back on his feet, this was a major surgery, three hours and a large incision. they told us last night he was cracking jokes and already working. we haven't heard anything directly from him. waiting to see if he'll go around in a wheelchair to visit a ward like he did the last time he was in the hospital, visiting the children's ward, oncology ward, things like that. he's going to need the ten days to cover here, because he has a big schedule ahead. portugal the first week in august, mongolia the last week of august. it's hard to keep this man down, he has a lot on his plate ahead of him. everyone is hoping he'll take it easy, relax, recover, get well to get back to work. >> ten days in hospital.

serious surgery. keep usses posted. new weekly jobless numbers just in and higher than economists predicted. the new read on the economy, we have that for you with christine romans next. our unique gel flex grid draws away heaeat, helping you fall asleep p faster. it relieves pressure for less "ow," and more "ahhh." and instantly adadapts as you move, without ever disturbing your partner. amazing. sleep better. live purple. visit purple.com or a mattress store near you. my name is brian delallo. i teach ap and honors economics in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. financial well-being to me is knowing that i can be free to do the things that i love to do. i hope when i retire someday, they say, that guy made this place a special place to ce to school and gave as much as he could to help the community.

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miami. lionel messy is coming to miami and fans are pumped. soccer is part of the identity. and a volcano is spewing in hawaii. look at that. we have live pictures of what the lava flow is looking like now. you can see, it is beautiful, but dangerous. officials do say that there is no indication that the popular eruption is about a half mile away. makes sense, sara. new jobless numbers are out, and christine romans is here. and last month, we saw enormous numbers for hiring and way beyond predictions and what are these numbers? >> this is a proxy for lay offs

and it is 261,000 first-time layoff claims which is the highest since october of 2021 and we are looking for the numbers for signals that layoffs are weakening and layoffs in the corporate layoffs. sometimes people will be laid off and then they are filing for the unemployment, and maybe that is the lag. but some perspective, in the decade before covid, a typical month, you might see 300,000 a week, this is still way lower than a typical kind of week. so we have a strong market, but maybe hinting that it is slowing a little bit. >> okay. to me, it is still very confusing of the numbers of the jobs coming that is still so much than the ones that have come. and now, the fed. they are meeting next week, and

could there be another hike? >> still, of the jobs created this week, there are 500 million jobs created and could there be another rate hike. and the fed is going to be saying, do we head to to tap the brakes to slow down the economy not to feed the brakes, and if we continue to see the first number trending higher is what the fed wants to see, but the big picture, you will see the feed and tech where you are hearing the layoffs and the slowdown of hiring, the job market is by any historical standard, it is strong. >> thank you, christine romans. and on notice, the justice department is notifying the president's team that he is a target of the ongoing

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on high alert is the invest into donald trump and he is the target of the documents probe, and indictments could be coming soon from grand juries. smoke from the wildfires in canada choking big parts of the united states leaving some cities unrecognizable. president biden is offering to help canada to get those

wildfires under control. a woman is trapped inside of her apartment building for hours and first responders have to amputate her leg. she is speaking exclusively to cnn. this is cnn "news central." all right. we are looking at live pictures outside of two u.s. federal courthouses. on the left is miami in florida, and on the right is washington, d.c. we are waiting to see any movement in either locations, and why? because they are the site of two federal grand juries where we have been watching activity for several months. the white house has notified donald trump's attorneys that he is the target of an investigation, and that is the clearest target that h