robert and susan rosenbaum.he corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again from washington, moderator yamiche alcindor. yamiche: good evening and welcome to "washington week." with just two months to go until the mid terms, president biden is stepping up his attacks on the g.o.p. in a fiery speech thursday, he blasted republicans who are allied with former president trump and embraceing election -- embracing the election lie. biden called those republicans an extreme threat to the foundations of our nation and he vowed to fight back. >> democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election. either they win or they were cheated. and that's where the maga republicans are today. yamiche: the speech marked his second visit to the state in this week and in the critical state of pennsylvania, of course. on tuesday, in a speech in the northeast part of pennsylvania, biden said democrats are committed to pre

robert and susan rosenbaum. the corporation for public broadcasting.n by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> onc again from washington, moderator yamiche alcindor. yamiche: good eveng and welcome. this week, alarming new reporting from the washington post revealed the fbi recovered top-secret information about a foreign nation's nuclear capabilities during its search of former president trump's home. according to the paper, some documents retrieved were so secret, only the president and a small number of senior level officials have access to them. on wednesday, former president trump's former attorney general bill barr weighed in on the legal jeopardy trump faces. >> there is no scenario legally under which the president gets to keep the government documents, whether it is classified or unclassified. if it deals with government stuff, and goes back to the government. yamiche: meanwhile, a federal judge appointed by trump granted his request to have a third party known as a special master review the documents seized fr

robert and susan rosenbaum. the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> once again, from washington, moderator yamiche alcindor. yamiche: good evening, and welcome to "washington week." this week, former president trump had to endure a number of legal challenges. on wednesday, the new york attorney general announced the state is suing the former president and his three eldest children for fraud. the civil lawsuit alleges trump and senior management of the trump organization fraudulently inflated the value of his real estate assets for financial benefit. the ag's office is requesting that trump, don jr., eric, and ivanka be barred from borrowing money or conducting business in the state. they would also have to pay back the money they allegedly obtained illegally. the investigation could lead to criminal charges for the president. >> we believe the conduct alleged in this action also violates federal criminal law, including issuing false statements to financial institutions and b

robert and susan rosenbaum. the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> once again, from washington, moderator yamiche alcindor. yamiche: good evening and welcome. it was another busy week of news about multiple federal investigations into former president trump and his allies. on thursday, a federal -- a federal judge appointed a special master to review documents taken by the fbi during the search of trump's home. the doj will continue to be blocked from accessing the roughly 100 classified files seized in the criminal investigation. that came after former president trump blasted the doj on the hugh hewitt show. pres. trump: i have the indicte. i have done nothing wrong. if it happens, i think you will have problemin this country the likes of which we have never seen. i don't think the people of the united states will stand for it. yamiche: despite trump's claims he classified the documents, his lawyers have refrained from making that exact assertion in court, and a number of