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in a storage room. this december despite one of his lawyers telling the government they've given everything back before that search. now agents found government documents mixed in with personal items like gifts and clothing. there are also dozens of empty folders that were marked as classified. i want to bring in cnn's sara murray, political analyst laura barone lopez, and nick akerman, and also we have national security attorney bradley moss. a great panel to talk about this very important issue. i want to begin with you here, sara. you've been going through the inventory documents from this mar-a-lago search. tell me what is standing out to you? >> well, i mean, certainly it's the volume. they say there are 11,000 government documents that are not classified. but also, when you dig in to the classified documents you, have you 103 documents. we're now learning that amounts to hundreds of pages in these documents. but 18 of those are top secret. 54 are secret. 31 are confidential.

so all levels of classification. there are also a bunch of these empty folders. some of them have classify markings on them. some say return to a staff secretary or a military aide. and as you pointed out, a lot of these documents, these classified documents are just mixed in with a whole mess of other stuff. >> i find that odd, that these documents would be mixed in, like some kind of a junk drawer happening, nick. some of the nation's most important secrets potentially, and again, we don't know what is in these documents. we still don't know. we know the type of document, the classification, but the fact that a document of this potential could be mixed in with clothes and gifts and press clippings, do you see possibly an innocent explanation for this? let's think about a benefit of the doubt. can one be extended? >> not at all. i mean, there is an absolutely no good reason for donald trump to have taken any of this. there is no justification for why he'd have to use it.

i mean, these are documents that belong to the government. they should have been left behind. he has not come up with any justification as to why he had the right to have these documents. he claimed at one point recently that he declassified them, but he never made that argument in the course of, oh, two years or year and a half of wrangling back and forth with national archives official, doj officials before they finally executed the search warrant. so it seems like that argument is has just been made up after the fact, and he's come up with no explanation. >> and i might add, i don't recall one being given to the judge in the most recent filing about the special master and the declassification process. but you have to wonder, bradley, you think about this. certainly it would be easier to have given documents back, not take them in the first place. but the idea of retaining council, going through all this, having the back and forth, it

just begs the question as to why. why fight so hard for these documents? but i do want to point out. there are some empty folders in here. empty folders that are marked classified. and i don't know about you, but you probably have manila folders somewhere in your office, some place that's empty. this is not the typical case or office drawer most people are talking about. mar-a-lago, top secret classification. does that mean nothing was in them to begin with, they're being recycled? or does it mean maybe information of a top secret nature could actually be missing now and unaccounted for? >> yes, so that's certainly one of the unresolved questions here. and obviously i believe that's something the fbi would like to know is what was originally in there and when. it certainly could be the case that when they were packing up the white house to move everything to mar-a-lago, they just stuffed things into these folders that had nothing to do with classified information that they have previously been used in that manner, but weren't

currently being done. but that's an unresolved issue that has to be clarified. the reason -- everybody is trying to figure out why donald trump would do this. donald trump is a notorious pack rack. he likes souvenirs. he thinks it's cool. he thinks this is stuff he can have and show off to friends at mar-a-lago. he has no understanding of what the security rules are or why those procedures are in place, and he has never cared to learn them. and that is the fallout. this is what we're dealing with now. not just from a criminal perspective possibly, but just the counter intelligence and national security one that these records were exposed to any number of people. >> look, i'm as much as a pack rat as anybody else. maybe we should call marie kondo, i don't know his process of things. but it sounds the what you've described to me now, that could suggest that he couldn't have formed the criminal intent perhaps? is that what you're saying? if he were to be charged, and we're not there, we're not there, i don't know what they plan to do.

but the fact that he was ignorant to the protocol and process, does that help him? >> not really. because the relevant provision that they're referencing under the espionage act only indicates it matters if you're willfully retaining the documents. it's not the gross negligence or anything like that that we thought about during the hillary clinton saga. you took these documents to an unauthorized location and continued to willfulfully retain them despite the fact you were supposed to turn them back over. given the potential information we have about potential obstruction, that's what puts them in criminal liability. >> i turn to you, laura, because i love your name, laura, and i want to ask you about the implications here politically as well. do all of the developments that we're talking about, tying trump possibly to the mishandling, at least the possession. and his counsel has essentially confirmed that yes, he had them there. they may have been like overdue library books. what does this mean politically? much of the january 6th hearings, are republicans following along?

>> republicans seem to be rallying around, at least a strong faction of republicans rallying around the former president. but politically, you would have to think that this would harm republicans running in swing states across the country simply buzz of the fact we saw what happened in 2020, where a lot of independents and a number of swing voters decided to vote with president biden because, you know, i was in arizona, and they were turned off by the nonstop negativity, the nonstop accusations that trump would hurl. and we saw that this fbi investigation so far and the fact that they searched his florida residence has only turned trump into what he used to be in terms of just constantly on truth social. this week alone in the span of some 24 hours, he was sharing truth social users who were qanon adherents, their posts. he was also saying that he should be declared the rightful winner of the 2020 election, and

that if he wasn't, there should be another election immediately held. and so he's constantly on his own social media site right now, which is being amplified across republican circles. and that's something that a lot of voters when you talk to them in these state, if they are swing voters, they aren't happy with that, and they don't like to see that he is out there still making those bombastic claims about the election. >> well, you know who is amplifying a message, laura? this is the former attorney general bill barr. i want to play for everyone what he said about the mar-a-lago investigation on fox news. listen to this. >> let me just say i think the driver on this from the beginning was, you know, 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 them in a country club, okay. and how long is the government going to try to get that back, you know? they jawboned for a year.

they were deceased on the voluntary actions taken. they then went and got a subpoena. they were deceased on that, they feel. and the facts are starting to show that they were being jerked around. so how long do they wait? >> you know, nick, i want to come back to you in one microclimate on this point. but laura, on your end, the fact that bill barr is coming out pretty forcefully against trump on fox news, i wonder what message this might send? keep in mind, as we all know, this is somebody who has written a book, who is not necessarily going to be invited to thanksgiving dinner of the former president there, potentially persona non grata to one another. how does this come across politically? >> well, there have been a lot of -- i shouldn't say a lot there have been a number of republicans similar to bill barr who are part of more of the establishment republican party who have been trying to caution against rallying to trump's side in wake of the mar-a-lago

search. they've tried to say that there is a lot of information that we don't know here, including potentially how extensive this breach was. how many people, you know, potentially had access to these documents? was it a small handful? was it a lot of people given that we know a number of people circulate through mar-a-lago on a daily basis? who exactly got their hands on this information? and the fact that there was classified information right next to nonclassified, you know, the intel officials and former intel official is talked to say that's just 101 no-no that they're not supposed to be put together at any point. >> i mean, nick, to the point that attorney barr made as well, he called it jawboning, the idea of this constant back and forth. there has been a tremendous amount of deference, let's say to the former president to have a back and forth, to try to negotiate it seems the terms of returning what is supposed to be the property of the government.

they have allowed trump to stall and to hand over bits and pieces of information at a time. and some of the comments and thoughts here during all of the waiting, what if team trump just made copies of the classified documents? what if they handed things over? could there be assurances that they had essentially been cooperative in a way that would satisfy the government and the archives? >> well, look, we know that they weren't cooperative. we know at the end of the day when the government finally gave them a search warrant, that the government realized they weren't cooperative. they had somebody who was an insider who was basically telling the fbi what was going on. they knew where to search for these documents. a lot of them, a good portion of these documents were found in donald trump's own office. so this was a matter that they bent over backwards. they gave them the benefit of the doubt from the initial

stage. they gave him the subpoena to try to get the documents, and then they learned that basically, they had been as put it as bill barr said, jerked around. and that's why they went in with the search warrant. and on top of all that, donald trump since the day of that search warrant has just continuously shot himself in the foot. first of all announcing the fact that there was a search warrant. and then continuously trying to get more information, which has just made him look worse and worse. so this has been a colossal political and legal failure for him. whether he gets the special master or not, all of this information has come out because donald trump basically asked for it. >> there has been a serious of self-inflicted wounds. and from the legal council perspective as well, bradley, right? they are in part entangled in a way having previously certified and attested that everything was complete. they handed over everything.

they had searched things. you have to wonder at what point in time that will come up. but we're also standing by, to nick's point and what sara made earlier that we're waiting to hear whether trump will actually get the special master he wants to go over the mar-a-lago documents. frankly, it could happen at any point. to this point, chatty kathy, bill barr said a lot today on fox news. he even said this about the special master. >> i think that 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. >> he also spoke with "the new york times" tonight and had this quote calling trump's request a crock of, well, it wasn't sugar. do you agree? >> look, pigs must be able to fly because i agree with bill barr on something. the special master issue is a total red hearing if for no other reason than the majority of the records. as bill barr himself noted, even if they are covered by executive

privilege, and that seems to be a pretty far stretch, are still government records. they belong to the government, not to donald trump. they belong in the archives where they're supposed to be documented and sorted and logged for potential future use for historical reasons in a presidential library if president trump wanted to build one. they're not his personal records. they're not souvenirs. everybody is waiting for this ruling from the judge. but remember, every day that passes, every hour that passes without an injunction from that judge to stop the fbi, they're still processing what they got, and they're still doing their work. and nothing else is getting in the way of that. >> a good point. the idea of time is of the essence doesn't seem to be lighting a fire. i don't know what she is doing right now in terms of deciding the issue, but you're right. every day there has not been a ruling, doj hasn't stopped waiting for that ruling to come in. sara, we're also learning tonight that after the mar-a-lago search, mark meadows turned over text messages and emails. is there a correlation? >> that's right. he turned these over to the

national archives. essentially, the archives learn they'd didn't have everything from mark meadows because they started to see the stuff he had provided to the january 6th committee. that set this off. the situation is different because these are not classified documents. he is not in the same position the former president is in, and the archives does see him as a cooperative witness. the timing is interesting. it's awkward. once source told my colleagues who were working on this story this has absolutely nothing to do with the timing of the mar-a-lago search that all of the sudden he has all the documents to hand over. another source said look, all of the sudden the week of this mar-a-lago search we start getting way more documents. >> coincidences. you got to love them on a friday night after there has been a search of mar-a-lago. from mark meadows, interesting. who knows if it was coordinated or not. more on this in a moment, everyone. hey, stand by. thank you all sara, laura, nick and bradley. nice to see you all on this evening. hey, listen. while we're waiting for that special master news, we're also

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well, president joe biden is defending his prime time speech on the dangers to democracy. to remind you, here is what he said a little earlier today. >> i don't consider any trump supporter to be a threat to the country. i do think anyone who calls for

the use of violence, fails to condemn violence when it's used, refuses to acknowledge when an election has been won, insists upon changing the way in which the rules you can vote, that is a threat to democracy. >> i want to bring in cnn senior political analyst ron brownstein, and also mark mckinnon, a former adviser to george w. bush and john mccain and executive producer of "the circus." let's start with you here, ron. president biden, he is trying to draw the battle lines for the midterms. he is more forceful than he has been in recent times, essentially saying look, you're either for a democracy or you're against it. it's a all or nothing. i'm wondering what you make of this being a potentially successful strategy come this november. >> well, first of all, i think it's really important the line that you noted that he drew. when you're the president, you have to be careful when you're talking about large groups of

people. but he went over and again to make clear that he was not talking about all republicans. at one point he said even most republicans. i think the polling is questionable on that assertion, but he was isolating the trump movement. and i think it is very hard to ignore the reality that there is an authoritarian strain within the trump movement that is part of the republican party. and the reaction to this by so many republicans and conservatives to say well, he is smearing all 74 million people who voted for donald trump. i think actually underscores the vulnerability here. because we do know from polling that there is something between a fifth and a quarter of republican voters who are uneasy with everything donald trump has done since the election who do see him having responsibility for january 6th, who are worried about the kind of normalization of political violence, and one of the key questions for november is can democrats

sustain the games they made in '18 and '20 in white collar suburbs among voters who usually leaned republican in the past. and there is evidence they are. not specifically because of democracy, but i think it is related to the reemergence of president trump in our debate. >> you can look at liz cheney of there being a spectrum shall we say in the republican party. there is not the monolith, even when we're talking about partnership. let me ask you, mark, republicans are slamming president biden's speech for many of the reasons ron has articulated. it's divisive. it's political. but, i mean, the de facto leader of the republican party, one named donald trump, is embracing the people who stormed the capitol, talking about maybe even pardoning those who may be prosecuted and convicted. i wonder in this overall scheme of things, it appears to be this identity crisis. not one from within, but one of how they're being perceived.

do you think that the gop has come to terms with what party they have become, at least in the eyes of many voters? >> well, i think ron put a fine point on it, which is what's happening and what is effective about what joe biden is doing is that he is confronting the entire republican party with an inconvenient truth. now there is a good portion of that party which we know, of course, will embrace the inconvenient, will deny the inconvenient truth because they believe anything donald trump tells them. but there is a portion of that elec el el electorate, hoping that trump would go away. it started to look that way the summer they had good issues to run on, trump had receded from the screen, but now trump is back full screen. and i think very effectively is saying listen, you either confront the truth and deny

donald trump or you're embracing the lie. not a lot, enough. >> to your point, i remember so well to bring it up again, congresswoman liz cheney when she repeated nearly every single hearing date that she would talk about the truth is not going to be one that maybe you want to accept, that you've been lied to, et cetera. she would try to ease into this very notion on these things. ron, obviously as mark talked about, neither biden nor trump are actually on the ballot in about 60 some odd days. but are these midterms shaping up to be really about the two men who are not on the ballot, biden and trump? and if that's the case, which one has the advantage? >> well, that's really interesting. traditionally, midterms have been solely a referendum on the party in power and the critical variable in the midterm has been the approval of the incumbent president. but this is evolving. there is no question that the

landscape looks very different now than it did earlier this summer. and it is becoming much more of a choice. donald trump's visibility, the supreme court decision overturning roe v. wade, the massacre in texas, the climate change bill the democrats passed, all of those things i think combined have created an environment in which the issue is not solely what democrats have done or not done over the past 18 months, but what republicans would do if returned to power. and the other thing, laura, that's happened that's important is over the summer there has been an unequivocal demonstration that the trump faction is the largest faction and the dominant faction in the republican party. it's been nominating election deniers all over the place. arizona, nevada, michigan, pennsylvania, et cetera. and so that's really forced i think -- put a fine point on the choice facing the return voters that 1/5 to 1/4 that are uneasy with all this.

do they want to stay at this point in a coalition where they are clearly the subordinate minority and are faced with supporting candidates who are enabling trump's lies and anti-democratic actions. >> mark, i see you nodding, but i also wonder. what's the alternative? if the idea is and ron's correct that there is a very large faction and a very large majority of this party, what is the choice then that there becomes a new republican party or it reverts back? what's the next step then? >> well, god, i hope so. i mean republicans like me feel like they've been on an island for a while. and we can only cheer for people like liz cheney who stands up for truth and democracy and hope that coalition begins to builds itself. we can't condone the lies that are embraced by the maga faction of the republican party as currently governed by the ex-president. >> you know, it's important to

think about the where tos and the what's next. obviously we're all looking ahead to the midterm elections and what's going to happen. of course there is the midterm election as you know, and the 2024 election. we're all waiting with baited breath to figure out who will be the rnc nominee, let alone the candidates running for it. the identity crisis we're talking about, whether the democratic party or the republican party, it will all flush out pretty soon, at least we hope. yeah. >> can i have one thing real fast? >> of course. >> in terms of your point, something very unusual is happening in this midterm election. you know, there were five states that went from trump in 2016 to biden in 2020. they are essentially the states that elected biden. arizona and georgia in the sunbelt, michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. all five of these states you have hand-selected republican nominees basically chosen by trump running for senate or governor or both. and it will be a very

interesting question whether there are any republicans if those candidates don't do well in november. are there any republicans willing to get up and say look, we just got the signal from the states at the tipping point of the election that the trump direction is not a winning strategy in these states, or is his hold so impregnable that no republicans are really able or willing to acknowledge what could be an important signal from the electorate if these trump selected nominees fall short in a year that's supposed to be tilted toward republicans. >> we will see. i'm waiting for the answer to that question, as we all are. thank you, gentlemen. nice to see both of you. >> thank you. and now to update you on a story that we reported on last night on this program, it was about the shooting of donovan lewis in columbus, ohio. this program showed a graphic after that story aired that made it seem that casey goodson jr. was shot by an officer from the

columbus police department. he was not. casey goodson jr. was shot by a deputy from the franklin county sheriff's department. we apologize for any confusion that may have caused. serena williams, everyone. falling in the third round at the u.s. open. we'll look at the match and her extraordinary legacy, next.

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serena williams, the 23-time grand slam singles champion, considered by many to be the greatest of all time played what likely is the final professional tennis match of her career, losing in the third round of the u.s. open just moments ago. but like michael jordan said, you know, i never actually lost a game. i just ran out of time. well, perhaps her time has come to an end, but she is an icon

nonetheless on and off the court. i want to bring in robin given, who is a senior critic at large at "the washington post." so glad to see you here tonight. i can't help but smile thinking about the career of serena williams. she is my contemporary, and i think about watching her for all of these years. and frankly, robin, she made such a remarkable comeback this week that was an amazing match. her energy, the crowd just loves her. what did you think of her performance this evening? and not even that, what do you think of the career that she has had? >> well, you know, her performance this evening was extraordinary. she is a mesmerizing athlete. but i'll leave sort of sports analysis to the experts, and, you know, i'll just say that i think that, you know, part of the magic of serena is that

she's certainly transcended tennis. she transcended sports. i thought it was really significant that she decided to talk about her evolving, as she put it, away from tennis, not in a sports publication, but in a fashion magazines, in "vogue." and part of that is i think because one, she loves fashion. she is passionate about it. but it's also a place that under the best of circumstances really sort of shines a light on the broad premium of women's interests, their desires, their power, their passion, their expertise. and i think it was sort of a signal to the world that she considers herself to be this fully three dimensional person who is more than an athlete. >> thinking about that, and as you say, that beautiful picture

of her gracing the cover of "vogue." if you look a little farther, i think her daughter may be holding on at one end of that dress at one point as well. it's a beautiful photograph. and this is where she talked about that evolution. and as you put it so well, robin, so often we pigeon hole as a society. we decide who you are supposed to be. and it is the rare breed, the rare exception of those who are able and forthright under the enormous pressure someone like her is under to say i will chart my own course unapologetically. and i think about that when i think about serena williams and what her and her sister endured quite early on in her career for what you're talking about. we call it fashion today. but at the time, i remember being around her age, and people were poking fun about her hair. they were talking about her body. they were talking about their clothing type. who can forget the black cat suit, the grunts on the court by people. all of this came into this unapologetic notion that as she

said two nights ago, i'm just serena. >> she brought her entire self to the public stage. and while i think often people want to sort of trivialize what fashion is, fundamentally, it really is about how we want to be seen on the public stage. it's how we want to define ourselves, and how we want others to see us. and she was very vocal through her presence, that she wanted to be seen as black woman and all that that entails. people talk about those beads that she wore in her hair early on. that was very much sort of not part of a eurocentric beauty standard. and she wasn't bullied out of that. and i use that term very intentionally, bullied. because the fashion industry, the style industry, the beauty

world, the culture at large can be very bullying about the way that it believes people should look to be acceptable, to be considered valuable. and she proved that her value, her worth without changing her sensibility. and the other thing that i think is also important is that, you know, at the time that she was sort of coming into her own as a public figure, it was -- it was an enormous leap to be this confident. fashion has a way of sort of putting people into -- through a thrasher almost. and it polishes off their rough edges. and she didn't allow that to happen. >> and i'm glad she didn't. and of course what she showcased was her extraordinary talent. i'm looking forward to the evolution of the other talents that she has already cultivated and will continue to display.

and, you know, i heard a lot of commentaries about these matches saying oh, my gosh, keep in mind, this is a mother on this court. and i couldn't help but laugh every time. we know. she is a mother. and we saw her daughter courtside as well for these matches. what we call fashion and think about it, look at her, there she is. that picture of her daughter watching her own mother and thinking about all those years away. i can't wait to see what she pursues in her next chapter. robin so, nice to see you. thank you. >> thank you so much. now it was once called the best small library in america. now an idaho library is struggling to survive as armed activists push for it to ban more than 400 books. now here is the thing. it doesn't actually stock those books. we'll take you there, next. when taken daily, it supports your health, starting with your digestive system. metamucil's plant-based fiber forms a gel

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a battle taking place in one small community in northern idaho. christian activists are demanding that more than 400 books be banned from the library. but not one of the books on their list is even on the shelves. the battle is a microcosm of an even bigger one that's brewing, and it's prompting liberals and conservatives to join together to fight back. more tonight from cnn's nick watt. >> reporter: five years ago, this was anointed the best small library in america. today the trustees are facing a recall. >> what i hate to see is my community torn apart like this. >> reporter: the director just resigned. do you feel that you've given in, that you've been defeated here? >> part of me does, yes. but they start showing up at your house, guns on their hips and bible tracts in their hands. >> reporter: activists demanding that the library ban more than

400 books, like gender queer. >> even if we do nothing to you, eventually, if you don't repent of wanting to harm our children with pornography, that's up to god. >> things need to change otherwise you bring curses upon yourselves, period, from the most high. >> are any of those books in the library? >> not a single one. >> reporter: still, this little library might not survive. >> our ensurer has decided to nonrenew for what they're saying is increased risk exposures. we can't operate without insurance. >> reporter: we bumped into one of the people pushing the recall taking out books to see if they should be banned. >> if i take someone else's word, that's not good. >> reporter: she refused to talk to us. everyone on that side of the argument we reached out to refused to talk to us. but one of them did explain her motivation at a library board meeting. they are now held here because so many people were showing up to the meetings. so many of them were armed, that

they moved to library board meetings to a bigger building that is also right next to the sheriff's department. here is that one woman's motivation. >> my job is to protect our kids from sexual deviants who will be drawn to our library with inappropriate sexual materials is on our library shelves and using our kids as prey. >> reporter: this week we showed up with our cameras to a board meeting. >> it was wonderful to not be like attacked. >> reporter: and the would-be book banners did not. >> so what is going on, nick, is there is a group of individuals that are moving into the area who are -- they have the intent of turning this into what they call the american redoubt. >> reporter: coined back in 2011 by a christian survivalist, the american redoubt, a refuge for self-described god-fearing liberty-loving patriots. the store recently opened by a

pastor who moved up from california. here's how he described it back in 2015. >> if we will put him first, blessed will be the redoubt. by god's grace, we trust that the redoubt, we won't see the homosexuality and ramp pant less by annism we see in california. one has this ad on its website. >> in the days of old, the men would lead, women would nurture. >> reporter: the aryan nations, for a long time they were head quartered in this part of idaho, they had a similar plan but for a whites only homeland up here. many locals fought against that. today many locals are fighting against the redoubters and the book banners. >> they've been going to library board meetings and yelling and screaming at people. and we're here being very quiet and very polite. we're having a read-in support of the library. >> reporter: the resistance here in bonner's ferry is a coalition of liberals and conservatives. >> this is a pretty

conservative. >> very conservative. >> christian community. >> very so. >> and a lot of people voting for president trump? >> very much so. >> reporter: most folks here voted for trump in 2016. even more voted for him in 2020. but -- thinking goes beyond any conservatism into almost a nazism where they're trying to force their own ideas and their own religious concepts on everybody else. that's not america. >> reporter: we spoke to the former mayor who voted for trump, and he's on the same side as liberal people here. >> well, of course, yeah. we're neighbors. >> reporter: city council woman val thompson's family has been here five generations. >> one of my friends had somebody tell them the other day that the american redoubt is here and it might be time for you to exit. >> reporter: there are politicians like this running and winning. >> i'm talking about really raunchy stuff in these kids

books for 7-year-olds. hopefully you have secured your local elections. you need a good sheriff, and you need three county commissioners. >> there are claims that critical race theory is being taught in schools. and -- >> we had one mom come in and say this has black lives matter themes. it was a fairy tale by chris colfer. so it probably has people of color in the book. >> reporter: on that list of books that was given to the library, i saw who was frederick douglass. >> right. >> reporter: why is that an issue? >> i haven't read "who was frederick douglass? but i'm assuming that there was something in it that was offensive or made somebody feel guilty for being white. i have no idea. >> reporter: as i've said, it's not in the library. neither is "gender queer." >> the conflict is that i cannot say that we will not get them. because we're a library. if the public comes and requests those books, we will get those

books. that's what we do. >> reporter: they say they are not censors, that this library must serve everyone. so laura, the lady you just saw in that report taking out books to see if they should be ban and refusing to talk to us, well, this morning she wrote a letter to a bunch of local law enforcement, to the state attorney general, basically accusing the library director and her supporters of trying to silence them, ignoring them, and lying to the press, and alleging that there is some kind of cozy relationship between local law enforcement and the library supporters. so asking for an outside agency to come in to investigate. battle lines are drawn. this is far from over. laura? >> nick watt, thanks. we'll be right back.

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live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, shocking details about the documents the fbi seized from mar-a-lago. what it could mean for donald trump ahead. russia bids farewell to mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the ussr. one person is opting out of the funeral ceremonies. we're live in moscow with the details. and serena williams' legendary career comes to an