♪♪ good morning to all of you. i'm alex witt. this morning, more stunning revelations from the justice department in the investigation into those classified documents seized at donald trump's mar-a-lago estate. we got our first look overnight at a new 36-page filing from the justice department responding to trump's request for a special master to review the documents. it includes this photo you're about to see right there, that vividly underscores the crux of the matter. it was taken inside of trump's so-called 45 office and it shows a pile of documents clearly marked secret, top secret, and sci. some of the recovered materials were so sensitive fbi agents and doj attorneys, they needed additional security clearances just to review them.

but along with the photo came a series of explosive new details. the doj claims there is evidence that the documents seized were, quote, likely concealed and removed before the fbi search on august 8th and, quote, efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government's investigation. the filing also disclosed that three classified documents recovered during the fbi search were located in the desks in the 45 office and the doj even laid out why it says it cannot trust information that came from trump's team saying its finding, quote, cast serious doubt on the claim that there had been a diligent search for records. now donald trump's legal team has until 8:00 p.m. tonight to respond to all of this and it will come to a head tomorrow. that is when a judge has scheduled a hearing on the special master request. joining me right now, a great team, we have ken dilanian, josh

dossy, and law professor from the university of alabama, and columnist for the boston globe. kim and joyce are co-host of the sisters-in-law podcast. ken, take us through the many revelations from this filing and why they are so significant. >> good morning, alex. this filing is so significant because it really underscores that this isn't just a case about classified documents. it's a case about lying, about deceit, about potential obstruction of justice. the justice department is giving us its fullest picture yet. they're spelling out that they feel like they were lied to here by the trump side. they don't explicitly call out donald trump. they say they were lied to by an unidentified lawyer who is serving as the custodian of records.

after they serve add grand jury subpoena and went down to retrieve classified documents from mar-a-lago, that then this lawyer signed a document saying we've done a diligent search and have given you everything. they wouldn't let the agents open any of the boxes. we know the justice department developed evidence that things were being moved out of storage room. they had reason to believe that the documents were scattered in other places, including the president's office. they got the search warrant and that's exactly what they found. highly classified documents that were not supposed to be there, they had been assured were no longer there, were there. twice as many documents they seized in that search as were turned over by trump's lawyers. the agents and prosecutors reviewing them had to get special clearances just to see them. and in terms of the trump side's argument that we've heard a lot,

that the president declassified all of these documents, the filing points out that's not how the lawyers acted when they turned some of them over in june. they wrapped them in special envelopes. >> absolutely. so, joyce, several key parts of the filing read pretty much like accusations. they're using words like obstruct, conceal, interfere. what are the signals that the doj is sending. >> so doj took advantage of a gross misstep by the trump legal team. they thought they would go on the offensive and file this lawsuit hoping to get a more favorable reading from this judge than they got from the judge who issued the search warrant and the miscalculation involves the fact that as merrick garland frequently likes to say, doj doesn't try its cases in the press, it speaks in the courtroom and in its pleadings. the doj spoke loudly and this one last night really trouncing a suggestion by trump that he

had any sort of an ownership interest in these documents. laying out a very clear legal picture explaining why these documents belonged to the american people, even documents that aren't classified that all of these records need to be returned to the government. but as you say, alex, going a step further and laying out a very clear case for obstruction, doj stopped short of laying it in the lap of the former president. it's a little bit of an open question. is it the responsibility of the lawyer who is involved and the custodian of records who signed off on this certification in early june that all classified material had been returned, or will they in turn point the finger at the former president. doj has laid the table. it's not a very attractive meal for trump to sit down to. >> that's one way to put it. thanks for that. with the "new york times" having pointed out this key revelation about the fbi search, it was taken from the filing, here's the quote, the search yielded

three classified documents in desks inside mr. trump's office with more than 100 documents in 13 boxes or containers. that was twice the number the classified documents the president's lawyers returned voluntarily while swearing an oath that they returned all the material demanded by the government. how significant is this? >> alex, the best way i can convey this to you, when i saw the photo of the volume of classified information with all of those, you know, cover folders, it gave me heart palpitations. as referenced, when i was in the fbi working counterintelligence investigations which were top secret, if we stepped away from our desk for a 30-minute lunch break, we would lock those up. that was in a secure fbi office. of course, if i were to remove any kind of restricted information from a scif, for

example, i would have been fired and prosecuted. just to see this volume of classified information there is staggering and i'll add that i'm very shocked that trump continues to stick by this declassification defense of his which doesn't have merit, but even so, these are documents that you can tell from the covers are derived from human intelligence, they're compartmentalized information, why would you declassify that? those documents can put people in danger so it actually raises more questions than it answers by him continuing to assert that defense. >> yeah, and, kim, ken addressed a bit of this. but the doj also notes in the filing that the former president lacks standing to seek judicial relief or oversight because those records do not belong to him. to their point, i mean, look, he's a private citizen now.

he's got these government documents. and they're not any old kind of government documents here. how strong is that argument that he's a private citizen, she shouldn't even have these? >> that's absolutely correct. keep in mind, even though he's a former president, he's not the current president, there's not a scif at mar-a-lago. in fact, the former president is not able to get security briefings that other former presidents get because of the risk that he's already demonstrated particularly since january 6th. so he hasn't gotten a security briefing in well over a year. there's no place in mar-a-lago where documents like this can be safely kept. and what i found really striking about this filing is clearly the doj is not just laying out their case for the judge, they're doing it more and more through these filings to the public. you know, that merrick garland had been very circumspect in the way he approached this because he didn't want to repeat the

mistake of former fbi director comey in talking too much or wading too much into political territory but in this case because it is so serious, because the doj is being so careful, they even pointed out that some of the documents were flagged as potentially covered by attorney-client privilege, even though trump's attorneys didn't ask for this and they're putting the case to the judge that they don't want the special master, that it would impede their investigation and they want to be able to continue as they've done. >> josh, with your reporting, are you seeing any hints this morning from team trump about how they're going to respond to this filing by 8:00 p.m. tonight? >> we don't know exactly what they're going to say. we know they brought in a serious lawyers. his lawyers are involved by all accounts. they said all the documents have been turned over or they were

involved in searching. he has a different lawyer now that we expect to be more heavily involved. the trump argument that he's been making all along that they could have had these documents if i asked, we were being cooperative is hogwash, according to his filings. they're saying that, you know, they asked for the documents repeatedly. they subpoenaed for the documents. they were told they got all the documents and they found more than a hundred new classified documents after trump's lawyers had said they had searched. trump's main defense was this was an unnecessary escalation, this was a draconian act, we would be happy to give these documents over. what it shows us is that's not the case. there was so many attempts to get the documents back and representations from trump's team that they had given them back and then they just had not, right? and that's how we got to this

point. i think that really will be interesting to see what trump folks say tonight because previously they've been, you know -- saying we were cooperating, this was unnecessary and now when you have these facts laid out in this way, it makes it challenging to make that argument. >> kim, getting to that point about the new hire that josh is mentioning, donald trump has had a trump time finding legal representation, but i want to read a quote and it comes from a lawyer who has represented trump but did not want to speak on the record because of the political consequences of crossing him, i wish nothing but the best for him, but hope is not a strategy when it comes to working with trump. i hope he has a good contract. what do you hear in that statement, kim? is it referencing getting paid for his work because donald trump has a legacy of not paying his bills that way. is it about working for donald trump that could leave his professional representation tarnished in the legal community, what do you hear? >> i hear all those things and

more, alex. i would be very nervous representing donald trump as a client. you have to have a client who trusts -- who you can trust will take your advice and we've seen repeatedly that donald trump does not do that. that he frequently says statements that are against his legal interests as proceedings like this are ongoing and we know he's tried to get out of paying contracts that he is on the hook for. i would be concerned about all of those things. >> let me ask you quickly, ken, about the doj arguing and this argument comes on page 22 of the filing that the appointment of the special master would be unnecessary and interfere with legitimate government interests which you've referenced here. in light of that, what do you watch for tomorrow when the judge hears this argument of whether or not to appoint a special master. >> the trump team has asked for a master to review two issues, attorney-client privilege and executive privilege. and they argue, there's no executive privilege here because

there's no privilege to shield documents from the executive branch itself which is what the justice department is. and if the judge starts to entertain anything regarding executive privilege, that will be a signal. the other argument the doj makes, it's been two -- they first asked for this master two weeks after the search. that's not a timely request. when a master was granted in the search of lawyer michael cohen's office, he asked for it that day and he's a lawyer. there were a lot of lawyer client privilege documents in that search. the doj saying we don't need one but they also say, judge if you grant a special master, let's do some conditions to make it move as quickly as possible, alex. >> i'm going to leave this question as a rhetorical one for our viewers and that is the question no one has answered because it's donald trump's to answer which is, why did you take these documents in the first place? interesting to see if we get answer to that at any point. in the meantime, thank you all

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and what they're calling the battle for the soul of the nation. it comes as biden has stepped up his criticism of the republican party in recent days from blasting the maga philosophy as semifascism to calling them out for undermining law enforcement in a fiery pennsylvania speech yesterday. >> you can't be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurrection. you can't be a party of law and order and call the people who attack the police on january 6th patriots. let me say this to my republican friends in congress, don't tell me you support law enforcement if you won't condemn what happened on the 6th. >> shannon pettypiece is joining us from the white house. actually, pretty hard to argue with anything the president said there. so what should we make of this new tone and what can we expect to hear tomorrow? >> reporter: alex, the white house has been signaling that we should expect to see president

biden step up his attacks on republicans and we've been beginning to see that and certainly we can anticipate more of that. it's part of a broader strategy that we have seen past white houses do of making a midterm election not so much a referendum on the president and the party in power, but making it a choice between the alternative. so while we're continuing to hear president biden talk about the accomplishments of democrats and his white house over the past two years like with gun reform legislation, with lowering prescription drug prices, the infrastructure bill, actions like that, expect to hear the president try and contrast that to a picture he is painting of republicans that are strongly linked to trump and trumpism and this, quote/unquote, extreme maga ideology. we heard a little bit of that yesterday. here's a bit more of what the president had to say. >> it's sickening to see the new attacks on the fbi, threatening

the life of law enforcement agents and their families for simply carrying out the law and doing their job. i'm opposed to defunding the police and i'm also opposed to defunding the fbi. >> reporter: and those remarks yesterday were focused on public safety, the white house said, and trying to attempt to flip the script here that republicans have used against democrats on who is the party of law enforcement and defunding the police. the president there accusing the republicans of defunding the police. we expect them to talk about a fight for a soul of the nation, for the president to talk about threats to democracy, threats to america's standing in the world, how his administration has been aiming to tackle those and the work that is still left to be done. it's a theme he's hit on before. given how close we are getting to a presidential election and many of the political dynamics out there right now, it will take on some new significance

the white house is anticipating tomorrow night. >> 100% you're right. thank you for that. for more, i want to bring in a democratic strategist and usa today contributor. good to see you, my friend. we've seen a -- kind of notable shift. the president going harder against the republican party in this last week. what's behind it? what's the strategy? >> well, i think, alex, that the presidency of joe biden is really a three-act play. the first act was getting us through the pandemic, something that we've never experienced before, getting shots in arms, getting the vaccines out and distributed and he did that. act two was getting stuff done, passing legislative accomplishments from infrastructure to climate change to inflation reduction act to the chips bill. he got those things down. now we're in the third chapter which is leading us into the election the fight for the soul

of the country. we're watching an extreme republican party mirror what we have seen in other places like nazi germany. we have seen this playbook before. we have seen a ruling party try to use things like propaganda, try to silence the free press, try to restrict what women can do, we have seen this playbook before and it always ends disastrously for the majority of the people who are subjected to that. that's what the warnings signs that we're seeing from the president right now. he's ringing the bell that we need to pay attention because this is a dangerous line that the republican party is under full embrace of autocratic ways and means is nothing but disastrous and we have to stop it. >> all right. so that's what we're going to tune in for tomorrow night. let me ask you about the speech yesterday when he focused specifically on law and order. to whom is joe biden appealing here? >> well, i think he's appealing to everyday americans who do

believe in the rule in law, who do respect law enforcement and he's right, you cannot be procop and procoup we have seen that at the same time. we've seen what it was like from law enforcement's vantage point that day. we are seeing threats being launched against the fbi, law enforcement by trump's allies. the republican party has warned about extremism from the left antifa. here we have those very republicans turning their back on law enforcement, putting a bull's-eye on their backs and that's what president biden is pointing out. >> yeah, i think the word hypocrisy fully applies here. let's talk about another big issue as we head towards the midterms. abortion rights. let's take a listen to part of what the president said last week after democrats won that bellwether election here in new

york. >> you saw what happened with pat ryan in new york, picking up that district. i think the american people realize this is just beyond pale. it goes too far. in the meantime, i signed two executive orders to protect access to reproductive health care. >> in fact, curt, several republicans have now shifted their tones on abortion in recent days. most notably, blake masters who has completely scrubbed his website of any prolife messaging. how has the ground shifted overall and what do you think it means for democrats? does it open an opportunity for them to go through? >> well, we've seen now time after time democrat turnout go up. we've seen republicans not really know how to even talk about this. the void that was left by some of these republicans and their effort to hide from it has been filled by the most extreme end

of their party saying that they believe a raped child should be forced to carry through with the pregnancy. women in nazi germany had little role in political life, their role was to marry and procreate. she did not have a career outside of her home. the reversal of reproductive rights in america is bringing us toward that. under mussolini's rule, procreation was a duty of women. they want to bring women in the 21st century, that's what they're trying to do, and they can try to run and hide from it. republicans can try not to talk about it. it's too late for that. >> good point. thank you so much. just in this morning, the fda approved the use of both pfizer and moderna's modified covid booster shots to specifically target the ba.5 omicron variant. pfizer's shot will be available

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ federal help should be on the way to mississippi after president biden approved disaster relief for the jackson water crisis. but for the nearly 200,000 people there, getting clean water is still a challenge. some distribution sites are running out of water within 30 minutes. one woman spent $100 at a grocery store to get her elderly parents water. and the problem isn't new. >> it's a complete shame that this is not a new thing. water challenges have been there for years. >> we're just outside of jackson in ridgeland, mississippi.

it's stunning to hear what that woman said that you were interviewing. what more are you hearing from the residents there? >> reporter: alex, that video, if it keeps going, the camera moves up and then you can see all the water in the back of her pickup truck. she is bringing that water to her mother. we've been talking about this. everyone we've spoken to, yesterday we spent half the day in the community talking to people. almost everyone says they have problems with the pressure. they tell you, well, i have water and there's some pressure, so that's almost a good sign to have some pressure, but no one who lives in jackson has told us that they have perfect water or they've had good water service in the last few weeks or months. some people have almost no pressure and there's people out there that say that the water that they do have isn't even white. here's a video of someone who recorded himself while opening the faucet. look at this. >> took ten minutes to fill this straight out of the faucet.

and that's why we don't drink jackson water. >> reporter: so we know that the problem is there. the residents have told us about these issues. we know that the boil water notice has been in effect for almost a month here and now the government is helping out. this plant remind me, it supplies most of the water for jackson, this is the plant that failed and this is where state authorities are trying to fix the pump and is bring in more resources. with fema and the epa getting involved, the white house did put out a statement saying they are going to use their contacts to bring in the equipment to expedite that necessary equipment here at this plant to try to get things going. the city that runs this plant did tell us, the mayor said, it's been years of them trying to make repairs but they haven't had the resources. so now with the media attention, the president, the state and the city all working together, the expectation is that this plant

can finally get those repairs they've been needing while the national guard is helping the state distribute that water in the city for the people that need water right now. alex? >> yeah, but not soon enough for that guy in the video that you showed us. that was just disgusting that he got that kind of water. made a point, though. thanks for sharing it. the hottest september day that's ever been recorded on earth, that is what parts of southern california could be in for as that state places for a punishing heat wave. most of the state is now under either an excessive heat watch or warning with temperatures expected to top 110 degrees in a few days. let's go to los angeles. not maybe sweltering just yet because it's 8:30 in the morning, but it's going to get there. what should people be ready for? >> authorities are saying people should be ready not just for hot weather, but dangerously hot weather. as you said, it's 8:30. the sun has been up for two years here. it's warm, but it's going to get

a whole lot warmer over the next couple of days. we're looking at triple digits all across southern california today. that is going to be up to 115 degrees in some residential areas tomorrow. and that hot weather is going to continue all through the labor day weekend. we're expecting a lot of daily heat records to be smashed, some all-time records may be smashed. death valley getting to 125 over the weekend. here in l.a. county they're urging residents, look out for the most vulnerable. that is kids, the elderly, people with chronic conditions, but also the unhoused. if you walk around downtown l.a., you're going to see a lot of people sleeping on the streets and the streets are going to be broiling over the next couple of days. authorities have activated the cooling centers, they're largely libraries, recreation centers. places where folks can get

inside into the air-conditioning for a couple of hours, have a drink of water and try to keep themselves safe. alex, we also have socal edison urging people to be prepared for possible blackouts, right, as everybody is at home, they have their air-conditioning cranked up, you may have the grid overwhelmed and there's the danger of forest fires in southern california, especially when it's so hot, which could take out power lines. they're telling people, make sure you have the essentials at home, flashlight, batteries, bottled water, battery-powered radios in case you lose power. you can't get news from tv. you can't get news from your cell phone. they're really urging people to be cautious. if you're going out on a camping trip this labor day weekend, be really conscious of what you're doing with your campfire. you don't want to be the person who starts the next big california forest fire. alex, this is looking like it is

going to be a pretty brutal end to what so far had actually been a relatively mild august here in california. alex? >> enjoy it to tell you, don't like hearing any of this. it's tough for california and the west in general with all the drought and heat. thank you so much. the united nations nuclear monitoring team is on the ground in zaporizhzhia, ukraine, ahead of their visit to the now russian-controlled nuclear power plant. the team is there to assess any damages after weeks of shelling in the area left the plant temporarily disconnected from the nation's power grid. let's go to josh letterman, i understand you got a chance to speak with the director of the team. what did he share about their mission? >> reporter: we saw that convoy of u.n. vehicles arriving here in zaporizhzhia and i asked the general whether he's confident they can carry out this mission safely and he said that they are confident, that they can do

this. but just to give you a sense of how perilous this is, we're here in zaporizhzhia, a city of 700,000 people. from here, they're going to have to go 30 miles down the river into russian-occupied territory where there has been constant shelling for weeks and then they expect to spend several days at that site which is controlled by russian troops, getting a handle of what damage has been done to the nuclear reactors there and the other facilities as well as inspecting the backup systems that are supposed to keep it safe. there's also big questions, frankly, alex, about what they're really going to see and whether the russian troops there are going to give them an unvarnished view of what's happening or conceal some of what's happened at the power plant. i asked the general whether he thinks he's actually going to get a sense of the truth there. this is what he told me. >> we are a team of very experienced people. i'm bringing here the best and the brightest in safeguards, in

safety, in security. and we will have a pretty good idea. >> reporter: alex, he told me that they expect to spend several days on site at the nuclear plant which is something that contradicts what russian officials have said, that they're only allowing them to spend one day there. we'll have to see how long they are on the ground there. but the director general says that the goal is for the iaea is to have some kind of permanent presence at the nuclear power plant so they know what's going on in the future. i'm told that they are bringing equipment such as radiation sensing equipment and other measuring devices such as cameras that can give the international community eyes and ears on the ground here as they bring stability to the situation that has become a flash point in the ukraine war in the last few weeks, alex. >> it's incredibly important the iaea gets to do its job. this morning leaders from all over the world are

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singles playing career as she takes the court for a second round match. the tennis superstar says she's ready to hang up her racket after she tries to add one more title to her 23 grand slam singles championships. for more on her remarkable legacy, i'm joined by mary carillo. there are some people who thought serena is not going to go the distance. but she was pretty darn good on monday. what do you expect to see tonight? i think this is a match, alex. you know what night matches are like at the u.s. open. it's so fitting that this icon is playing at the billie jean king tennis center. i think she can win this one. it would be terrific. if she wins this, it would be i think as electrifying as when jimmy conners at age 39 made his way all the way into the

semifinals of the 1991 u.s. open. it's that buzzy. and i think that she's tucked away one round, she can keep going. >> yeah, 100%. never bet against serena, that's for sure. big picture here, she spoke about her match and after include she talked about the impact that she's had on the sport. let's listen to part of that. >> i was just a girl trying to play tennis and in a time where, you know, i could develop this impact and be a voice and it was just so authentic because, you know, i do what i do and i just do it authentically me and i think people could really relate to that. >> what are the biggest ways that serena has changed the face and style of tennis? >> she has been the best player of this generation, alex. i mean she -- and i love listening to what coco gauff

says of this woman. she says, i grew up watching her play and she looked like me and it allowed me to know that i could do this. that i belong. she's done that with naomi osaka. so many men and women. this kind of ferocity that she's had, her serve, her unbelievable beating heart. i've never seen anything like that. she is her own weather system when she's out there. she hasn't won this thing in awhile and she hasn't played much. she's played a fistful of matches this year and there's some rust she's got to kick off. if she can beat with anett kontaveit, she gets going, if she gets herself a run, this place is going to explode with enthusiasm and gratitude for her. >> 100%. you neglected to mention

fashion, the cape, the sparkles in her hair. she's phenomenal that way. she's going to play doubles with her sister, venus, who sadly, unfortunately, fell in her first round match. two sets down. but what do you expect for that and possibly coming back and doing any doubles. do you think she's hanging it all up? >> i think this is her last singles major. and she has kept the door open. venus is very quiet. we have no idea what she's thinking. she says she's playing doubles because her sister wanted her to. they've won 14 major titles. they've won olympic gold a couple of times. they're a tough doubles seed. neither one of them has played much in the last year and a half. i think, again, this is serena's last singles major. i don't see her going to australia next year for the first major of 2023. we have to enjoy what she can bring. one of the members of her team,

rennae stubbs, said that she wrote down a note for serena and these are the three keys she says for tonight, composure, clarity, commitment. if she can have all three of those, she wins. >> okay, again, never bet against serena. or you, mary. thank you so much. good to see you. meantime, everyone, while the world waits for nasa's artemis 1 mission of the moon on saturday, spacex is fresh off of its 38th launch this year. but spacex is light years ahead and it's one of its divisions, star link that, is trying to become the internet provider to the world, solving infrastructure problems from space. cal perry got an exclusive look at that program. >> 15 miles. >> yes, to a spot where you can get service on your phone. >> reporter: these two are raising three generations of children here on the edge of

navajo nation in rural new mexico. in a place where households are separated by miles of deserts and cliffs, star link is the only option for communication here. >> and the jetpack didn't really help too. >> so this has been the thing that's worked. >> yes, definitely. >> reporter: that thing is one of 650,000 terminals in 40 countries around the world communicating with star link's growing satellites. star link has been hitching a ride from the falcon 9 rocket launching from florida and california. >> and liftoff. >> reporter: we have two of the few hundreds of employees working inside of starlink. something all too easy to understand in a place like ukraine when ground-based communication systems were some of the first targets by russian air strikes. >> we had thankfully a team on the ground in europe both tesla

employees, spacex employees that set up almost instantaneous supply chains to get terminal that is we had in europe into ukraine in 48 hours. one of the most impactful moments for me, there's a video on reddit shot by ukrainian witness, there are hundreds of people gathered around a single starlink terminal calling and facetiming. >> reporter: business questions arise about the speed in some places and the steep price tag. it's 600 up front for the unit. $110 per month is the current subscription price. >> how do you solve some of these problems? >> we're launching more satellite. i think we as a company have a track record of constantly trying to drive costs down. >> reporter: this independent school district used covid relief money to provide starlink to their 400 households. the funding lasts until 2024. after that, the district and the students are on their own, something that would leave

hundreds of children back where they started before the pandemic, isolated and behind. >> we would give kids books. why wouldn't we give them internet connection? why wouldn't we see that as an equalizer for students who live in places where they can't afford it or get it. >> reporter: a technology that provides great opportunity. the only question now is for whom. and our thanks for that very interesting reporting. 25 years ago today, the death of the people's princess stunned the world. remembering princess diana next. (dad) we have to tell everyone that we just switched to verizon's new welcome unlimited plan, for just $30. (daughter) i've already told everyone! (nurse) wait... did you say verizon for just $30? (mom) it's their best unlimited price ever. (cool guy) $30...that's awesome. (dad) yeah, and it's from the most reliable 5g network in america. (woman) for $30 a line, i'm switching now. (mom) yeah, it's easy and you get $960 when you switch the whole family. (geek) wow... i've got to let my buddies know. (geek friend) we're already here!

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shocked by the news of princess diana's untimely death. she was an international icon for her philanthropy, fashion and for shaking up the royal family. she was, of course, often a subject of intense tabloid scrutiny. but is remembered as a beloved figure or as tony blair famously put it, as the people's princess. let's bring in the associate editor for "the telegraph."

welcome on this somber day for so many. the question is, why was diana such a captivating figure for the world? how 25 years later, what are the most lasting parts of her legacy? >> i agree with you and say that it's amazing to consider that it's been a quarter of a century since she died. i think reflecting on it today and speaking to people who knew her best, there's this notion the princess was one of a kind. someone who did make a difference. i was speaking to one of her close friends last week. that was the constant question she was asking, can i make a decision? will this make a difference? rather than making noise, wanted to change the world. equally, beloved because of her sense of humor. she faced trials and tribulations in the royal family. she kept a fun spirit about her. she took the work seriously but not herself. that's why she remains

endearingly popular. >> yeah. it's hard to overstate how much attention was paid to the news ofler death. everyone remembers where they were when they heard the devastating news. why do you think there was such a global response? there were photos of people from all corners of the planet that were crying, that were just in mourning over her passing. >> i think first of all, it's the fact she was only 36 and still had the rest of her life to live even though she creates so much. that creates the marilyn monroe or jfk factor. i think in terms of the outpouring of grief, across the world, that was in complete reaction to the woman that she was in life and the fact she did give everything and that she was a game changer. think about her work with people suffering from aids and hiv, her

land mine work. this was something that pushed the dial. it was substance. it was impactful. it made the difference. she seemed genuine in her intention to try to help people. it wasn't something she put on for show. she was a tabloid and newspaper star. she would be on the front pages of all the newspapers not just here but in the u.s. and beyond. it was about her putting her position of great power and privilege and wealth to good use. >> her ability to relate to the average person. it came naturally to her. quickly, the impact that she had on the monarchy, does it stay today? >> certainly. we see the legacy through princes william and harry but younger royals in the way they do things. it was behind palace gates, it was them and us. because of her relatibility, she modernized it beyond all recognition. >> i think you are right. thank you so much for weighing in on this extraordinary day for those of us who remember well

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