"cnn tonight." >> thank you so much. it's nice to see you, john. and i know people right now are watching -- this is "don lemon tonight." i'm laura coates and i'm in for don lemon. look, they said they wanted transparency, and boy did they get it. the judge today releasing a detailed inventory from the mar-a-lago search. 11 whole pages laying out exactly what investigators found at the former president's home. we're talking more than 11,000 non-classified government documents as well. but there's more. 18 documents marked top secret. 54 marked secret. and 31 marked confidential. that's -- what did they call it before -- an overdue library book? well, this certainly is not that. that's quite a massive haul of documents that are actually the property of the united states government, not of a former president. frankly, i mean, it's

astonishing. it's unprecedented. but don't take my word for it. listen to the former attorney general, bill barr, who was on fox news today. that's right, fox. >> let me just say, i think the driver on this from the beginning was loads of classified information sitting in mar-a-lago. people say this was unprecedented. well, it's also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put it in a country club, okay? and how long is the government going to try to get that back? you know, they jawbone for a year. they were deceived on the voluntary actions taken. they then went and got a subpoena. they were deceived on that, they feel. and the facts are starting to show that they were being jerked around. so, you know, how long do they wait? >> i mean, that's a good question. and it's probably one that was asked before they went for that search warrant.

and also found in the search of mar-a-lago, dozens of empty folders with classified bands. that's right, empty classified folders. we don't know whether that means documents were previously inside those documents and documents were then mishandled or where these documents are right now that might have been in those folders, let alone the big question still, what was on and in these documents. a source telling cnn, folders like these are actually often re reused, which might be news to many people. but it raises a lot of questions. and these might be questions we may never get the answers to, at least at this part of an investigation. and i don't want anyone to forget the ruling on trump's team request for a special master, it has not come yet. but it could very welcome at any moment. the former ag had a thing to say about that issue too. >> i think the whole idea of a special master is a bit of a red

herring at this stage. since they've already gone through the documents, i think it's a waste of time. >> i mean, can you really unring that bell now? and several weeks after that search was even executed. and brand-new tonight, sources telling cnn that mark meadows handed over text messages and email to the national archives within a week of the search of mar-a-lago. that's interesting. i want to bring in cnn national correspondent kristen holmes and political correspondent sara murray. also harry lipman and former cia operations officer douglas london, who is author of "the recruiter: spying and the lost art of american intelligence." what a panel to have tonight, especially with the new news out right now. let me begin with you, sara. can you tell us more about this inventory that was unsealed today? it had some interesting notions in there. >> that's right, laura. it was quite a haul. we're talking about 11,000

government documents that were not classified, 103 documents with classified markings of all different levels, secret, top secret, confidential. you have those folders that you mentioned that didn't have documents in them but had these classified banners on them. they also took a bunch of boxes of stuff out of the former president's office. and those boxes include 27 classified documents. and a lot of this stuff, a lot of these government documents that were not classified, a lot of the classified documents are intermingled with all this other stuff, magazines, newspaper clippings, articles of clothing, gifts. it gives a sense of how kay yotically all this stuff was being stored. >> it's almost like it's a junk drawer in someone's house. all these things, you're pulling stuff out, maybe a screwdriver comes out. who knows? douglas, talk to us about these empty folders. you can almost hear the retort or say, hold on a second. we saw that picture that was attached to that lengthy motion from the government. are we saying that these were just empty folders we're talking

about? what is your take or concern about the fact that you did have at least some empty folders there? >> well, it certainly raises a lot of questions, more questions than answers. the folders have to match whatever the classification is, the documents that are enclosed. and you're talking about the president's secretary. this is not just somebody at their desk ad hoc reusing folders. this was the professional staff of the president of the united states. so, you would imagine that anything the cia would send to the white house, to the nsc, had tracking numbers and you knew specifically who had what document, who passed it on to whom because there was a sign-in sheet. the other thing to note from the picture and the other inventory being listed today, the former president talked about having declassified, and certainly he had authority to do so. but had any of those documents been declassified, they would have been blacked out or crossed out, as you can find in declassified documents today.

>> you don't mean redacted, you mean the label was crossed out. >> the actual label. right. they go through, they cross out secret, no foreign, on the headers and footers throughout the document as well as the label. >> and on that notion of tracking, by the way, when you talk about that, there are some documents, i think, that are included where it was noted to have this return to some form of a person whose job it was to bring it back to the original source of information in terms of the agency. is that pretty standard, and why would those folders still be with the president? >> well, for context, the president doesn't get long documents. generally, for example, a president's daily brief is usually one page. it comes with a package that the briefer has with all sorts of other background and details and even anticipated questions that the president might ask. the president gets a very streamlined version supported by briefs, like powerpoints, if you would, story boards and such like that. so, he might have had documents to be returned to his aides that

were left in some sort of briefing, but they themselves would generally be small. and some of those folders we saw there laid out by the fbi look far thicker than we normally see going to the chief executive. >> that's important to know. and i have the impression of cliff notes where you didn't read the whole shakespeare thing and you had the side bar of it. i'm not accusing you of that, harry, of course. you were very thorough, i can imagine. but i have to ask, as you're looking at this as a prosecutor, and you see some of these were stored with press clippings and gifts and at some point there were passports involved at one point in time. what does a prosecutor in doj think about that? what would that tell you in terms of maybe possession? >> so, your spider sense on the passport in particular says, hey, these were with him. where do you store your passport? not in the storage room. that's your stuff. those are your important documents. so, at least those at least three classified documents that

were with him, it seems to, you know, really point at possession and therefore everything we know knowing concealment. but this also makes everything about january way back when feel different to me. we had the sort of image of his grabbing up some stuff, stuffing them in a few bags. you would need a dumpster for all this stuff. this was an operation of just grabbing, you know, tens of thousands of documents along with the classified stuff. so, that all looks very different too because you know he had some exercise of control over it. so, it looks different from the inception. and then the whole course of 20 months where he's saying, you know, well, here, you can have this back, but we're all done now, and we know that, you know, he's whittling down on an enormous pile, not forgetting a few things here and a few things there. that makes obstruction in terms

of the knowing and concealing of documents more provable. that's how you feel as a prosecutor, i think. >> it makes me think for you to have that much information and documents, you had to have help to get down there. >> that means witnesses. >> witnesses, people who may have been a source of information to say here's what's down there. kristen, i want to turn to you here because you've got some new reporting tonight about trump's former white house chief of staff mark meadows turning over records to the national archives. what do you know? >> yeah, laura, these are brand-new details that show the level of engagement between meadows and the national archives as well as what he turned over to the agency. what we learned is that within the week of that search, meadows turned over texts as well as emails to the national archives. now, this was part of an earlier request for all electronic correspondence that falls under the presidential records act. and what's interesting here is the national archives only

realized they hadn't gotten erg from meadows when they saw what he turned over to the january 6th committee. i want to be very clear that this is not the same as what was going on with trump. the archives views meadows as cooperating. this is not something they're going to refer to the department of justice. but one thing to point out here that in addition to his own records, his own correspondence that he has turned over, he have also learned that he was helping try and get trump to turn over those documents that were down at mar-a-lago. we learned about a meeting last summer in 2021 in which meadows went to trump after being contacted by another designee to the archives -- meadows himself is also a designee -- and basically tried to get him to return the documents wechlt don't know the details of that conversation, but we see where it ended up, which was not turning over all of those documents. in terms of the timing, i do want to note, we have conflicting sources here. we have one saying, this had nothing to do with the search,

that this was planned to turn these over. it just happened to be this was the timing. we have another source who is familiar with the mat who are said, it may be a coincidence but we did get more information than we had ever gotten before after the search. >> wow. you know what they say about coincidences in a courtroom. they don't happen. sara, on this point as well, back to mar-a-lago, it's been more than a full day since the hearing over that special master request. here we are, it's 9:00 on a friday night, labor day weekend is upon us. we still don't have anything from a judge. and i'm just wondering, do we have any idea when it might be coming? >> well, you know, tick tock, right? the judge said that she will issue her ruling in writing in due course. she did not offer any other details about what due course means. she did not decide to issue this ruling from the bench. she is going to be thoughtful. she is going to spend time writing this up. maybe that's how she's spending her friday night in going into this holiday weekend.

maybe she's just putting the finishing touches on it and it'll be out any minute now. maybe she's waiting until next week. she really did not give a hint about how long she was going to take to craft this writing. >> 20 bucks says she's watching the u.s. open right now. >> yeah. >> she's like, just give me my friday night. it might be serena's last match. i do not know. i'll give it to you in due course. that's the beauty of an article three judge, they'll do what they'd like to do. i want to play a little bit more of what barr had to say about the case today. listen to this and i want you to respond. >> what people are missing is that all the other documents taken, even if they claim to be executive privilege, either belong to the government because they're government records, even if they're classified, even if they're subject to executive privilege, they still belong to the government and go to the archives. and any other documents that were seized, like news clippings and other things that were in the boxes containing the classified information, those were seizable under the warrant

because they show the conditions under which the classified information was being held. so, i think it's a red herring. >> do you agree? >> 100%. look, it's axiomatic, but there's something that follows from it, which is executive privilege is perfectly meaningless here. this is government stuff by the executive branch. even if you found executive privilege, what would you do? give it back to the archives. so, that really -- she is contemplating a blunder. and, look, i understand she's going in due course. most judges would have issued it by now. but, to me, the question is, is she taking her time writing or thinking it through? if she hasn't figured out by now there's really no executive privilege claim to unt had, then i'm nervous anyway. >> we'll see. obviously there's a huge magnifying glass over this case

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well, republicans were pretty quick to denounce president biden's speech on democracy last night, casting him as a divisive and angry figure. but if you listen to the substance of his speech, he seemed to be directing his ire at election deniers, and endorsers of political violence, those he calls maga republicans,

and pointing to them as the true dividers of this nation. >> donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. refuse to accept the results of a free election, and they're working right now as i speak in state after state to give power to decide elections in america to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself. they promote authoritarian leaders and they fan the flames of political violence. i want to say this plain and simple. there is no place for political violence in america, period. none, ever. we can't afford to leave anyone on the sidelines. we need everyone to do their part, so speak up, speak out, get engaged, vote, vote, vote. >> i mean, democracy is not and never has been a spectator sport, as they say.

but is voting enough to protect and preserve our democracy? i want to get some perspective now from a scholar of constitutional law and former u.s. senator from wisconsin russ feingold, who is the co-author of the newly published book "the constitution in jeopardy." nice to see you tonight, senator. you're from wisconsin. i'm from minnesota. it's okay. you can stay. >> thank you. appreciate your kindness. >> it's fine today. but listen, president biden has been really not pulling any punches saying that in order to save democracy, as a nation it's critical for us to unite in rejecting trump and as he says, maga republicans. first, do you agree with that characterization, and do you think he goes far enough to try to distinguish maga republicans from main stream republicans? or is it getting lost in translation? >> you know, laura, he didn't have to do this. he's been on a political roll. he's doing very well with the jobs and major legislation about

anti-inflation and climate. and he's filled the judiciary with many good progressive and diverse judges. he's doing very well. he didn't have to do this for political reasons. he did it because he cares about this country and he cares about our democracy, and he had to call out these maga supporters who are trying to subvert our democracy. to show it's a partisan comment, it's like what liz cheney has done, a conservative republican who is giving up her house seat because she cares more about our democracy and our country than just politic. so, i think the president is doing the right thing and i'm proud of him for it. >> you get the impression sometimes it's damned if you do and damned if you don't. there are those who are critical of the president for not addressing the maga republicans and being too timid and not show casing enough of his frustration over what's happening. but then you have this going back to even his inaugural speech and address, the idea of being united, the idea of trying to battle for the soul of the

nation, to bring people together. kevin mccarthy, and frankly other republicans, are saying that biden is tarring 76 million people who voted for trump with this maga label. and it's odd to me in a way because i -- as you've said, there is a spectrum in the republican party. there's a spectrum in the democratic party as well. and i just wonder, is this a trap in some ways that you see, the idea of trying to get him to go beyond that distinction? >> yeah, i think they'd love to do that. but the president couldn't have been more careful. he said, i'm not talking about all republicans. i served with joe biden in the senate. we worked closely with republicans. we both worked closely with john mccain. everybody knows he doesn't have this attitude about all republicans. it's just a group of maga supporters who are willing to do anything, to support the assault on the capitol, to subvert our elections at the state level, to deny the election results themselves. this is what they're doing. they're antidemocratic, and the ultimate symbol of our democracy is the president.

he better call them out. he did the right thing. >> now, you lost your seat to senator ron johnson back in 2010, and he, as you know, has been a very pro-trump republican, and his office was implicated unanimous in an attempt to pass on a slate of fake electors. what are people saying about this attention being directed to your home state? >> well, we've had a lot of attention the last few years. and part of the reason is that we do have people running our state legislature who are part of this movement, people that are election deniers, people that are willing to mess around with our state supreme court and who are willing to try to limit the right to vote in our state. so, there have been some bad trends. and the sad thing is because of gerrymandering, even though we have a democratic governor and democrat attorney general, the legislature is dominated by far right people who are doing great damage to our state. >> you have a new book out, which i assume talks about part of those aspects.

it's called the constitution in jeopardy. and, as you know and you've talked about, there is an ongoing effort to restrict voting rights, to try to -- there's attempts at election subversion, as you know. but you say -- and it's included in your new book -- that there is something even more serious to worry about, and it's right in article v of the constitution. tell me what it is. >> that's right and i hate to do it because people have a full plate of things to be worried about. but this is the same crowd, people like john eastman, same people, maga supporters, who want to have a mechanism used in the constitution that's never been used before. it's legal. but what it is is only 34 states can call a convention, and congress has to call it. and they want to have far right people chosen by conservative state legislatures completely rewrite our constitution. they can essentially do anything. what they want to do is greatly restrict the power of the federal government to act on things, such as climate, such as the environment. they want to make the income tax impossible. they want to make sure that we

don't have the kind of regulations that we need to protect workers. they want to gut voting rights and civil rights. and they can do all of this if they are able to call this convention. so, we're trying to tell people, look, we have to -- instead of being behind it this time, we have to be in there trying to make sure that this convention doesn't get called. there needs to be changes in the constitution, but not by a far right maga-supported minority dominating that convention. and that is a very present threat. that's what our book "the constitution in jeopardy" is all about. and people need to be aware of it. we want to make them aware of it. >> i'm so glad you are. it's better to be proactive as opposed to reactive. we know what happens when we are. we often get flat footed. senator, nice speaking with you this evening. >> thank you, laura. well, the texas governor, greg abbott, is facing a lot of heat for his strategy of bussing migrants to cities outside of the great state of texas. and chicago's mayor is saying

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the challenges many of these migrants have experienced on their journey to find a safe place. governor abbott has confirmed what unfortunately many of us had already known, that he is a man without any morals, humanity, or shame. >> let's see what our next guests think about those comments, maria cardona and alice stuart are with me now. i want to begin with these two wonderful ladies. wonderful podcasts. hot mics with me now. mayor lightfoot very critical of what he is doing. he announced this bussing program back in april and since then, for the figures, they have bussed more than 9,000 migrants from texas to so-called sanctuary cities like washington, d.c., like new york, and of course now chicago. obviously he is making a political point that he thinks that he should all share what he perceives as a kind of burden of people who are migrates to his

border state. is this the right way to go about doing that? >> look, you look at the influx of immigrants into texas, he had no choice. and as you mentioned, back in april, they started operation loan star. and what that did is it really worked with many agencies to secure the border and stop the flow of not just people but weapons and drugs into this country. and part of that plan to reduce the burden on these border towns was to send these people to other cities, sanctuary cities, specifically, as you mentioned, new york, d.c., and chicago. and the goal for this was to alleviate some of the burden on these towns and also to increase the safety in the state of texas. and i'm shocked to see mayor lightfoot's reaction to this because the city of chicago has a welcome city ordinance, which means they are a sanctuary city, which means they welcome people into their city and will provide safe haven as well as any necessary needs for people in

this situation. so, the fact that they're a sanctuary city and she is put out by the fact that they are actually having to do that, it really doesn't make sense. >> is mayor lightfoot put out by it, the fact she'd have to embrace and welcome those who have migrated through this bus system? or is it the fact that she believes they're used as pawns? >> it's the fact she believes greg abbott is using these migrants, these human beings, as weapons, as pawns, as trash to be gotten rid of because he doesn't want to deal with it. and that's the point of her comments. and she's absolutely right. they are xenophobic. they are racist. they are absolutely devoid of any real solution. and it betrays governor abbott not only has no idea how to solve this problem but that he doesn't care about how to do it. he only cares about a political stunt that is costing texans $12 million and more every day.

it's not making texas any safer. and frankly, he is betraying american values, which are that you should welcome migrants who are looking for a better life for themselves and their children and doing it in a way that is orderly and that is cooperative. look, if he had called these mayors and these governors and say, hey, we need to figure this out, can you all help me, if he had worked with the federal government and with the state governments, i guarantee you that these governors, as they are doing even now, would have said yes, would have done it with open arms. but he is doing this out of spite. he is not doing this out of any kind of grace. and i take this issue personally. as you know, i am a migrant and immigrant from colombia. many of these are from colombia, from venezuela, from places fleeing dictatorships and they want asylum. it's cruel and inhuman. >> on that point, i want to ask this question. one of the things that governor abbott is doing is he believes

there has not been a solution from the federal government. they don't like the immigration policy. there is fair criticism, of course, of our immigration policy. and there has been a lot of absorption, the idea that many of these sanctuary city's mayors would be able to be responsive and would immediately absorb and respond. do you believe that? i mean, we know there are some numbers, they're already very stretched out in their budgets. new york alone had to accommodate i think 1,000 new students. that's quite a figure. is abbott onto something in his -- i mean, obviously there's criticism of it. but the idea of saying, look, you've said you want to welcome. here's an opportunity. you would not have responded to my calls. >> absolutely. and look, the state of texas has spent $4 billion in the last several years to work and secure the border and to bring these people in and to provide the necessary housing and needs that they have. look, if there are any phone calls that need to be made, it is with these cities, new york,

d.c., and chicago, who are outraged at having to do what they have promised to do. they need to be calling the president of the united states and asking him to secure the border and make sure that we do what we can to prevent these people coming into this country. that's the phone call that needs to be made. but when -- >> but, one second, excuse me. on that point, though, what do you say to the fact that -- i mean, you can't deny that the idea of how governor abbott has gone about it is intended to be a bit of a calling of a political bluff, right? there is certainly that notion. the coordination aside, there is something political in nature about what he's doing, right? they're not going to just any city or a border state. they're going to these particularly democratic mayor-run towns. there is a politics in that undermining the message. >> look, he's acknowledged the fact that these cities, sanctuary cities, would be first people, democratic mayors, would have an opportunity to call the

president of the united states. and he has acknowledged the fact that if nothing else, we're calling attention to the crisis at the border and the influx of people. and while this might not be the customary way to do so -- and yes, i've worked at state government level and situations like this. normally there's coordination on both sides. that didn't happen in this case. but clearly governor abbott's job here and goal here is to reduce the burden at the state level, call attention to the crisis at the border, and hope that these mayors that are receiving these people will take action and call attention to the president of the united states in an effort to try and do more to secure the border and stop the influx. >> you know the last word, maria. >> i love my friend, alice. but that's just not a reality. greg abbott has no interest in solving this. look, let's be real. if he did have interest in solving this, he would call his friends in the republican congress and in the senate to say, hey, you all need to get with democrats who have a

solution in hand for comprehensive immigration reform that would continue to secure the border and find a pathway to citizenship and a way for these migrants to come in. we're at full employment, laura. corporations and companies all across the country are begging for workers. let's find a way to put these immigrants to work. that's why they came here. but these governors, these republican governors, have no interest in solving this. they only want to use this as political stunts, and i think it's going to be hurtful for them in their party, hurtful for them politically because it's really betraying what they really think about immigrants. they think that they're trash. >> we'll see how this all unfolds. if there is antic factor, the word burden in the same paragraph, we're talking about human beings. i recognize the politics. i get it's all there. we three are human beings and we have to acknowledge that as well. thank you, ladies. nice seeing both of you. >> thank you so much laura. >> you too, laura, thank you. look, there is an intense

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tennis superstar -- let's just call her an icon -- serena williams is forcing a decisive third set in tonight's third round singles match against her opponent. i want to go to cnn's don riddell who is there right now. don, you are at flushing meadows tonight. the match is almost over. bring us up to speed. what's going on? >> reporter: well, it couldn't be any tighter, really, laura. i mean, it is tense. it is tight. it is nervous. it is dramatic. it is spectacular. the crowd are on their feet one moment cheering for their hero, serena williams, the greatest of all time. nobody in that stadium, apart from tomljanovic, and her crew wants to see serena williams lose tonight because it means it's the end of her career. at times in that arena, the hushed anxiety of the crowd is absolutely palpable. but we have seen serena williams play some extraordinary tennis.

she was 5-3 up in the first set, and then things unravelled and she lost the set. she came out of the blocks in the second set absolutely on fire, racing into a 4-0 lead very, very quickly. then she tightened up, her australian opponent pulled it back. then it went to a tiebreak. at this point, williams played superbly at a point in the match when it was at its most tense, at a point in the match where serena was not just playing for the set but playing for the extension of her career. and she played superbly to force this match into the set. an early break by williams means she's up by a game in this third set. there are moments where you're watching this match and you're thinking this is an amazing tennis match and it's so compelling and so absorbing and you take a step back for a moment and you think we could be watching the last minutes now of this extraordinary career. now that serena is out of the doubles tournament she and venus lost last night, that now means

this is it. and nobody here wants to see serena williams lose tonight. but we don't know how this match is going to play out. >> i mean, it's so exciting to even hear. i've been watching and watching. the crowd is very much in serena's favor. a part of me wonders what it must be like for her opponents. what are they up against? many of these people have revered her the way her fans do. and to play against her in this moment, it must be extraordinary. >> yeah, i mean, all credit to tomljanovic for making such an amazing match of this. she's the world number 46, the best she's done in a major tournament is two quarterfinals this year and last year. she has never been in an environment like this. it's like the coliseum in there. and when this match was getting tight, when tomljanovic was serving -- tennis is a very respectful sport. it's a polite clap sport. you don't tend to cheer people's

mistakes. but that's been happening tonight. when it was tense in the second set, tomljanovic was trying to serve, and the whole crowd was on its feet just chanting serena's name. that is almost impossible to keep your composure in those moments. tomljanovic is not a player who is known for playing well in pressured situations, so she has done extraordinarily well to keep her composure tonight and made such an incredible match of it. >> kudos to her. i remember the first game -- first match when she was not favored. there was a moment when serena williams, i think, was a really class act and put up her hand and silenced the crowd, silenced the booing about a line call, and just knowing the power she had in that moment and using it in a way that showed incredible sportsmanship. okay. i won't keep you any longer, don. go back in, go back in. tell us what's going on. i'm jealous you're there but i'll be following. run, run, run. look, i feel like it's going -- i wouldn't change the

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we've got new details tonight what the fbi seized from the former president's mar-a-lago home. a federal judge unsealing the inventory of documents that trump had in his office and also in a storage room. this despite one of his lawyers telling the government they'd given everything back before that search. now, agents found government documents mixed in with personal items like gifts and clothing. there were also dozens of empty folders that were marked as

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