that was not nearly as vital, as important as john bolton. >> now, with bolton, there was an investigation into his book that investigation was ended in 2021 and he told wolf blitzer from our network at the time that he had gone through a pretty complicated review process for his book and said there had been no classified information in that. >> andrew, thanks so much. right from his mouth, quote, you can't do that. that's what he said about it himself. thanks so much. appreciate it. >>> there is a lot more ahead on "newsroom" tonight including the united nation's nuclear watchdog saying it will keep a long term presence at the nuclear power plant but is that enough to keep the plant with so much fighting around it? we'll ask a nuclear expert. >>> republicans are hoping for a big win in the house in november but data is suggesting the huge win will not happen. we'll return the numbers. >> inside the tent cities thousands of migrants wait in hoping for a shot at the american dream. rself at home♪ ♪how about stay the night then strut on home♪ ♪day 1, i'm in love with your strut♪ ♪day 2, i'm

and that was not nearly as vital, as important as john bolton. >> reporter: now, there was an investigation into bolton like an investigation into comey. neither of them were charged, and that investigation into bolton was actually ended in 2021. >> andrew, it's amazing how he doesn't apply the same standard to himself as he applies to others. he hasn't always been as worried about coming across -- thanks for digging all of that up for us. we appreciate it. great reporting. >>> as the public learns more about the dozens of classified documents the fbi found at mar-a-lago, donald trump is back on the campaign trail. he'll take the stage in the battleground of pennsylvania. he's stumping for two gop candidates, dr. mehmet oz and doug mastriano. both have the full trump endorsement, and both are struggling. cnn's kristen holmes is there right now. this rally comes days after president biden was in pennsylvania calling out the trump maga movement. what message do you think is resonating with pennsylvanians right now, and what are you hearing from some of these rally participants so far? are som

we also issued a visa to the head of iran as they have fatwas on mike pompeo and john bolton. this morning in iran, your thoughts on issuing these visas. >> yes, maria. those visas are disappointing. many members of congress, including myself, had urged the president not to issue those visas especially for the iranian president. this man is a mass murderer. he was hand selected by the supreme leader to be a potential replacement at a time when you say, maria, the iranian government is openly trying to assassinate former american officials like mike pompeo or robert o'brien or john bolton, at a time when they almost succeeded in finally assassinating salman rushdie on our soil, yet the president and the state department went forward with these visas as if the iranian president is just a normal head of state of a normal nation, not the theocratic leader of an outlaw regime. maria: unbelievable. i know that you spoke about iran on the floor of the senate this week on wednesday, and i want to get your take on what's going on right now. you've got protesters in the street. we under

openly trying to assassinate former american officials like mike pompeo or robert o'brien, port john boltonassinating on our soil. yet, the president and the state department with these visas asnr if the iranian president is just a normal head of state of a normal nation, not the leader oo an outlaw regime. maria: unbelievable.e i know you spoke about aroundwe the floor of the senate this t week on wednesday pretty want to get your take what's going on right now? you've got protesters in the streets. we understand the leader of iran is at death's door and they are chanting death to the supremgee leader. is this a moment to get back into the iran deal? >> and no maria, of course notdi parade this is a moment to stan with the people of iran.reed both because they deserve freedom from these dictators and because it would be in america's interest if the ayatollah is no longer governor. joe biden is doing in thesera approach is exactly what baracck obama did in the summer of 2009 during the revolution protest.y he is standing idly by because he does not want to offend the ayatollah as he is tryi

according to former national security adviser john bolton, trump was known to sometimes ask intelligencements. what exactly would trump say to intelligence officials? >> "this is very interesting. i'd like to keep it." >> meanwhile, trump's former white house chief strategist steve bannon is expected to surrender tomorrow to face new york state charges related to a fundraising effort to build the wall along the southern border. he has called the anticipated indictment phony. norah? >> robert costa, thank you very much. >>> well, in seattle, the start of the school year has turned into an extended summer vacation for thousands of students as teachers walked off the job today and on to the picket lines. cbs' janet shamlian is there. >> one, two, three, four! >> reporter: seattle teachers on the picket line, and more than 50,000 students not in class on what was to be the first day of school. >> it's a lot for people to scramble last minute. it's a lot on the normal school year. and so -- and we haven't had one of those in a while. and so it's just -- it's just a lot for people right now. >

the atlantic to congratulate liz truss on her election by the conservative party leadership was john boltonformer advisor to donald trump of course. michelle: thank you so much for your analysis there from the white house. in other news, russia is buying large quantities of shells from north korea for use in the war in ukraine according to u.s. intelligence. moscow is thought to be doing this because of serious shortages facing russia's military. they shortages have been linked in part to the effect of western sanctions. flooding in pakistan has now killed more than 1300 people. authorities in the southern part of the country have been struggling to stop the potentially catastrophic overflow which has already displaced up to 100,000 people. the supreme court in brazil has imposed temporary restrictions on the purchase of guns. setting the risk of political violence ahead of next month's election. the decision suspends several decrees from the president that made it easier for brazilians to get firearms. it comes amid widespread concern that bolsonaro and his supporters will not accept the e

he and, john bolton did. and by tearing that anti-ballistic missile treaty, that was the treaty that had been signed, i believe, by nixon, limiting the number of missiles that we could deploy. now, it sounds like it's just offensive, but when you have a nuclear arsenal, your defensive missiles are part of overall posture and the more anti missile missiles you have, the more it seems you might be able to cancel mutually assured destruction and achieve a first strike capability. now, we all know that the anti-missile missiles don't really work, but as putin has explained. he has to take the threat credibly and serious. and so once bush tore the anti-ballistic missile treaty, we found out in 2018, the reaction to that putin announced in his state of the nation speech, whatever call it, they're a whole new generation of russian nuclear weapons, and they include hypersonic weapons that they claim break mcc seven or more. they include nuclear torpedoes, are completely silent and, you know, hydrogen bombs destroy an

according to former national security adviser john bolton, trump was known to sometimes ask intelligence briefers to keep documents. what exactly would trump say to intelligence officials? >> "this is very interesting. i'd like to keep it." >> reporter: meanwhile, trump's former white house chief strategist, steve bannon, is expected to surrender tomorrow to face new york state charges related to a fund-raising effort to build the wall along the southern border. he has called the anticipated indictment phony. norah. >> o'donnell: robert costa, thank you very much. well, in seattle, the start of the school year has turned into an extended summer vacation for thousands of students as teachers walked off the job today and on to the picket lines. cbs' janet shamlian is there. >> reporter: seattle teachers on the picket line and more than 50,000 students not in class on what was to be the first day of school. >> it's a lot for people to scramble last minute. it's a lot on the normal school year. and, so, and we haven't had one of those in a while. so it's just-- it's just a lot for people rig

john bolton writes it about it as well. >> john bolton writes about that. didn't have justice in mind. because you don't hand out non-prosecution agreements like candy. you getting? in return. and here we weren't getting anything in return. this case was just going away. and barr suggested they should be secret non-prosecution agreements that we wouldn't even tell the court that we had them and we were filing them and they were part of a larger agreement with the bank. and that is why i said, i want to say at that point i said, well, well that would be a fraud on the court and i think the conversation in the room stops for a few minutes after that. >> you were asked to lie to the court on a couple of different occasions and you write about that. why was bill barr okay with that. in this case you refused to do what bill barr wanted you to do. for what you said it would have been a fraud on the court. >> two weeks from then, by the way, and it is interesting when i was writing the book, i saw it conflates the various events the cases that i was working on, we

from portugal, the critics accused the president of turning it into a campaign event. president john bolton already is attending parade, the military demonstrations, but with elections leaving october. his team was also planned to political rallies across the country. and central, hopefully later silver has not planned. any events well still had here on out there, albania cuts, ties with iran, and orders all iranian diplomats to lee following cyber attacks in july. and tell the floods destroy thousands of homes in saddam the stories after the break. ah, with attempts is in central north and iran are still pretty high. the sun's beating down here. there's not much can anywhere around, but there's a change of season coming. it's coming down through the caucasus and then to can extend that is much cooler weather, but i think ahead of it her up, for example, might hit or get very close to its reco, which is 39 is certainly $36.00 which is above normal for the rest, it looks pretty much like it should do. it's pretty hot still in the rock. it's hot and humid throughout the gulf states, and there

army veteran general john bolton holding a slim lead over the state senate president jack morris with just over a few thousand votes left to be competitive for the winner will face senator maggie hassan in november and what could be a deciding race for control of the sanity of pay attention to new hampshire. i think it's going to come down to it. also in the state, karoline leavitt, a former spokesperson for trump press conference, 25 years old, will now face congressman chris patten. >> carley: also new hampshire, kristin noonan easily won's g.o.p. primary but the same could not be said for rhode island governor dannel malloy keep your, he barely survived as democratic primary against several challenges including former cbs executive. in north carolina, another battleground state, democrats are outpacing republicans in request for absentee ballots were part of the 66,000 absentee ballots requested, 53% were requested by registered democrats and only 13% went to registered republican speaker sources tell fox news that the pattern is not unusual. however, despite democrats casting more

plotting to assassinate john bolton, president trump's former national security adviser.es for his trip to the u.n., president raisi is defiant. his message -- no concessions in the nuclear deal. iran will not back down. and it can survive the sanctions. which he says could well backfire against the united states. >> translator: they can create restrictions and problems and difficulties, but there's a number of countries that are being sanctioned. by doing this, they are bringing them closer together, making them more united. and this will render american sanctions ineffective. >> chinese, russians, iranians getting closer -- >> translator: this approach won't work. >> as we ended what seemed to be a cordial conversation, we were surprised when a member of raisi's staff reached up and blocked one of our camera men from shooting our good-byes. >> my camera. no. >> another one of our camera men's phones was confiscated and held by president raisi's security team for 2.5 hours. >>> five decades of covering iran. >> he calls you imam, his words not mine, a lunatic. >> you're

andrew weissmann, i got pete stark to agree with bill barr, let's see if i can get you to agree with john boltont's donald trump we're talking about, i'm not surprised in the slightest and i wouldn't be surprised if there were more highly classified documents at bedminster or some other residence of his. >> andrew weissmann, would you guess, an informed guess that there is a process underway to see if what john bolton says wouldn't surprise him, if they're looking for some of those missing classified documents or others at bedminster or trump tower? >> there's no way that merrick garland and lisa monaco have not thought of this. this is not rocket science. they are competent, thorough people. they have to be thinking about where all of these documents are, and they certainly aren't relying on a grand jury subpoena that called for the production of any document that has classification markings, no matter where located because they know that grand jury subpoena was not complied with, so they have to be scouring their informants and thinking through any and all next steps, including tracing where t

is exactly whatde people like judge living said, it's cexactly what people like mike pence and john bolton have said. if youlike listen to comments from previousnominees like mitt romney and in other words this is not rarepublicans versus democrats . thisan is mainstream republicans and democrats versus maga extremists. udthis election is about mainstreamgh versus maga and i'm proud we have a president that knows right from wrong. >>ab there was discovery about the president delivering a partially political speech in front of those marines in dress uniform. democrats railed again presidenttrump when he made political remarks in nonpartisan ffsettings, how is this different ? rs>> i wouldn't miss the larger point liand those critics f didn't complain when donald trump literally aged the fourth night of the republican political convention on the newhite house lawn. military to clear peaceful protesters in t lafayette parkso that i wouldn't miss the larger point . the point is mainstream onrepublicans and democrats agree on things like it's wrong to attack the united states capital, to spread

cnn came up with john bolton, james comey, he even called for the death penalty.ned legislation to strengthen the punishment against people who mishandled classified information. and here he is defending what he did. >> yes, and just to go back to something margaret said before. if you're looking at it from trump's perspective or looking at it in a 2024 perspective, there's so much more that needs to come out for us to really know what the implication politically is going to be for him. but in the short term, we, for a couple months, were reporting about democrats almost sort of urging trump to announce his 2024 campaign before the midterms, and he's obviously resisted so far. he's indicated he probably won't do that. the effect of this search at mar-a-lago and this whole storyline, he's leading headlines. he's back where democrats sort of wanted him to be and if he were to announce his campaign anyway and has given these openings to joe biden, to other democrats, to seize this moment and really make him the face. he's already the face of the party, but use these

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as john bolton publicly speculated, it's almost certainly a lie that donald trump had somehow attempted to declassify, before in prior cases of declassification there have been some sort of executive order or memorandum, and there's just no evidence to support it. it's also pretty much irrelevant to the offenses he's being investigated for. you know, like obstruction of justice, like concealment of evidence or concealment of military defence secrets. it doesn't have to be classified information. so it might not be relevant at all and it's almost certainly fanciful on the part of the former president. >> as we mentioned, the house oversight committee, a week ago the committee sent a letter to the national archives asking for an assessment asking whether the rainy presidential records still accounted for in the former president's possession. you have any more information on that? >> no new information on that. >> john miller earlier was saying in those photographs at the justice department has that there are sleeves notifying which would contain indicated they contain classified informati

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what we do know is that those who were in the white house with him, people like john bolton have indicated that they tried not to give classified records to the president. because they were concerned of what might happen to them. but sometimes they acknowledged they failed. and they forgot to get the records back. and ostensibly, either that is what a lot of these records are, where someone specifically grabbed some of them, perhaps under orders of the president. that is something we are going to need to find out. >> i want to know more about the office of the director of the national intelligence's review of all the. because this is happening concurrent to all of this. >> right. >> when we talk about human intelligence services that may have been compromised, by the storage of this material down a trump speech club, is this -- what is the response at dni? does this have real world, real time implication in terms of ongoing cia operations? what is happening here, as if they discover that people or sources may have been compromised? >> all of that could be true. and the reality is we may --

and also john bolton, the former nsa to donald trump -- he thinks it could be possible there are other documents at other trump properties. do you think they're pursuing that in this investigation? >> yeah, i do. the only reason we know about the search of mar-a-lago is because trump announced it to the world. doj keeps a secret. trump does not. trump told us all, and that's how this whole thing started to unravel. so, yes, i do think they're pursuing leads. as andrew said, they're probably talking to witnesses. and i wouldn't be surprised if they search other properties. all this is self-inflicted wounds on the former president. he told everyone he didn't oppose the release of the affidavit. now because of this motion for a special master, you've got this 36-page response that gives all these terrible details. and now you have this latest item, where now we know there's all these empty folders. so, he only has himself to blame for all of his unforced errors. >> dave, andrew, sar sara, thank you so much for the discussion tonight. >>> just ahead, more on a judge's release on what the f

we know right now that they have on the back of secretary pompeo and john bolton, why is this a administrationtly negotiating with the iranians when they chant death to ame america. >> because they want to deal at all cost. i asked a recent briefing from biden's negotiators what would the iranians have to do, how bad would they have to behave, how many americans with the have to kill and tried to attack for us to walk away from the deal, they basically said we have to have a deal, the iranians know it that's why they move the goalpost and raise the stakes because they believe they can get more and more from this a administration. that is why this bill was senator ernst needs to codify the sanctions. one more thing, the part of the negotiations that we are hearing, the iranians are worried a future administration, trim, republican, democrat, anyone else will back out of this deal because it's bad for america, the biden administration is trying to tie future administration's hands by giving the iranians guarantee is unconstitutional and it's wrong. maria: a sad state of affairs to watch joe bide

. >> and john bolton said this on wednesday after the doj revealed more of its discoveries. listen. >> given that it is donald trump we're talking about, i'm not surprised in the slightest and i wouldn't be surprised if there were more highly classified documents at bedminster or some other residence of his. >> it is like whoa, when i heard that. do you think that we'll see a search of other trump properties? >> i don't know. i think it all depends on what the fbi learns. but certainly with all those empty folders, it certainly does raise the question that there may be other documents in other locations. we just don't know. pure speculation at this point. >> sure. nick ackerman, thank you so much for offering your sxeerpexperti insights. >>> let's turn new to the heat out west. triple digit temperatures gripping millions of people and there is no relief coming over this holiday weekend. this arizona, the largest county has already logged 111 heat associated deaths this season compared to just 81 at this time last year. and in california, residents are now being told to curb

he said the same about john bolton.m a national security professional standpoint, from your standpoint, how is it possible that a man can steal national security secrets of the united states and another ally or enemy, take them home and not have the any consequences whatsoever. >> >>> i think we have to leave it to the fbi and that's why the appointment of a special master is a little troubling. this is going to delay the fbi case. this is not like wine. does not age well. bad news does not get better over time but "the washington post" reporting was interesting. first and foremost you have information potentially about either an adversely or allies' nuclear programs and you have information there about a special access program which is really kind of the crown jewel of the united states government but here's why it's really important. i think it really reinforces what the department of justice and the fbi did which was to search mar-a-lago and that's real, really significant when you have, you know, large majorities of

john bolton said take the top ten floors off the u.n. building and would not make a lick of difference. >> like some federal departments here in washington. no, it's a real problem and goes to the heart of the issue, which is credibility. and i'm afraid that, you know, joe biden is right about a lot of this. he's right about vladimir putin, vladimir putin is a very bad guy, and he's doing some very bad things in ukraine. but the problem is, do voters have faith, does joe biden have the credibility to carry out this foreign policy that is costing americans a lot of money? that's a different question, and i think it's a very difficult answer for him when it's put directly to voters. you know, you look at these polls, all the things that rank near the top, whether it's illegal immigration, crime, gas prices, ukraine is not anywhere near the top. >> sandra: great point, and will voters hold him accountable, and a couple years ago charlie. >> indeed, they'll have an opportunity to make their voice heard in november, that's for sure. >> john:

it's exactly what people like vice president mike pence and john bolton have said.en to comments from previous presidential nominees like mitt romney. in other words, this is not republicans versus democrats. this is mainstream republicans and democrats versus maga extremists. this election is about mainstream versus maga, and i'm proud that we have a president that knows right from wrong. >> mike: there was a lot of discomfort about the president delivering a partially political speech in front of those marines in dress uniform. democrats railed against president trump when he made political remarks in nonpartisan settings. how is this different? >> chairman maloney: i wouldn't miss the larger point, and of course those critics didn't complain when donald trump literally staged the fourth night of the republican political convention on the white house lawn. i mean, my goodness. or use our military to clear peaceful protesters in lafayette park. but i wouldn't miss the larger part in the speech. the point of the speech is that mainstream republicans and democrats ag

those who served in the trump administration with john bolton, myself who was an adviser to mike pence, none of us were aware of the declassification, and all of us agree that there is, indeed, a process. it's not just a random thing we're seeing out there. there would be a paperer trail. there would be lawyers involved. the director of national intelligence and the classifying authority of an agent us is, especially for some of the very sensitive documents that are labeled, there would be an entire paper trail and also a stamp on the documents. so if this is the case, it's completely ludicrous to say in my mind i can just wave a magical wand and this process happens. >> so as somebody who knows how the system actually works, the court actually talked about this idea that somehow former president trump had a personal claim. i want to read what they said about that. for our part, we cannot discern why plaintiffs would have an individual interest in or need for any of the so 100 documents with classification markings. plaintiff has not attempted to show he has a need to know the informat

. >> shaun, john bolton, who of course, was trump's national security adviser, said he wouldn't be surprised if classified documents are at other trump properties. do you think that's something investigators may be pursuing? >> you know, they absolutely have to, brianna. when we look at where these documents were, we know these documents were being handled because there were some documents in the storage area, there were documents in different places in the former president's office. so that suggests that these documents weren't simply taken from the white house in boxes and stored someplace at mar-a-lago. they were actively being handled. so it's important that investigators look at surveillance video. it's important that they look at other locations where the president may have been or where the pred's team or staff may have been to find out whether or not as the president was doing business, as he was going about what he does as a former president, whether or not some of those documents were moved. again, this is a reason why this intelligence community assessment is so important. >> this

it is really important things to us security john bolton live, who called taiwan an independent countrynese people believe yourself independent. it has a presidential constitution. and the army, therefore, i consider it necessary to support taiwan in its struggle for independence from china, the chinese global times em does not use. his melon self-interest and this is understood not only on the mainland, the position of the united states portraying taiwan as a victim of the tenacious paws of the chinese dragon has already formed the basis of the script for action cartoons. american hawks fly to the island, but not to save taipei beijing washington advances on beijing on all fronts presses, including economically, the biden administration extended the duties imposed during trump on goods from china and introduced new restrictions on the sale of computer chips. beijing, in response, demonstrates oriental patience, a kung fu style maneuver, where the highest skill is the ability to control oneself and only then the enemy confrontation is a technique in which the chinese have no equal, smoo

i'm thinking of john bolton who is now saying he worries that russia gets desperate. nuclear, what do you make of that? >> yeah, neil, thanks for having me. look it's about time we really start thinking about the unthinkable. that is use of tactical nuclear weapons. that is what we call them. they call them nonstrategic nuclear weapons. russians have 2,000 of them. it is in their doctrine to escalate to de-escalate. if they see losses occurring or he thinks he will lose this war we have to start thinking what happens if he decides to use that one? we're talking about nonstrategic nuclear weapon, at low yield, 1000 kilotons to 100 kilotons to one kiloton with five mile blast raise just. if they do that we need to think what they will do. if the reports are true they lost big elements of the first guard tank army. the reason why that is important that is probably their premier unit in the russian army f that is true they have lost the battle, then they have lost that was originally designed to defend moscow. we need to think if putin gets really desperate, if he is corn

not just me, a list of area his press secretary, just cut grisham, but john bolton, jim mattis, white are people who served around donald trump. they saw him in the moments that he was supposed to rise to the occasion and instead were terrified by what they saw. they believe, and i believe, that this man, if given a second shot really would bring a semi authoritarian perspective into the white house. i didn't think it was jarring and all that joe biden said that what we are dealing with it is a semi fascist threat. by definition that is what we are talking about, so she bs days ago we saw donald trump say publicly that he should be reinstalled into the presidency. right, to run rerun the election to put him in the president. that he is by, definition, despotism. that is tyranny. that is not what the american public is all about. joe biden was very much on point in describing this from a national security perspective, what worries me jonathan, is that trump's rhetoric has gone mainstream. years ago i said, before his reelection, that he was already talking about civil wars and coups be

tagged by our justice department as the entity responsible for attempting to kill mike pompeo, john bolton, brian hook, and others who ordered and executed the strike on qassem soleimani. this president's obligation to safeguard and protect the life, liberty and prosperity of our people and to deter, defeat, and when necessary, destroy our enemies. the biden administration's desire to bring the 2015 iran nuclear agreement back to life is dliewcial. -- delusional. continued renegotiation with russia as our proxy -- no joke -- ignores our men and women in uniform, the iranian dissident community, our allies and partners in the persian gulf, and american citizens on the homeland who have bounties on their head today. our middle eastern partners in particular are begging the biden administration not to reenter this so-called nuclear agreement. they plead with us not to give iran access to $1 trillion in capital by 2030. don't fund their military support of russia's aggression against ukraine and don't fund their acts of terrorism against our own people, they ask. mr. president, i'm demanding t

his former national security adviser john bolton, secretly enlisted a republican member of congress to or dangerous. bolton's staff coordinated with the republican senator to, quote, try to contain trump more explicitly on north korea. all of it made crystal clear in a resignation letter that mark milley, the highest ranking military officer wrote one week after trump's infamous lafayette square photo-op but never sent. he writes this, quote, it is my belief that you were doing great and irreparable harm and it is my belief you're ruining the international order and causing significant damage to our country overseas. the authors say this is not yet a book about history, not at all, but one about the still impulsive, still dangerous, still most powerful leader of today's gop which trump proves for them in their interviews with him in which he dished out insults for several republicans and people he hand-picked to advise him but, quote, people he had no words of criticism for, putin, xi jinping, kim jong-un, the january 6th rioters or white supremacists. as for his own vice president, tr

in august that a member of the irgc had plotted to assassinate former national security adviser john bolton on american soil. former secretary of state mike pompeo and former iran envoy brian hook still require personal security details everywhere they go because tehran has put targets on their back in our country. it was also just last month that inspired by the ayatollah khomeini's 1989 t, a man nearly killed a man during an appearance in new york. and in august vladimir putin received his first shipment of iranian drones. birds of a feather. inside its borders and beyond them, the regime in tehran thinks nothing but bloody thoughts. they think no one has dignity that doesn't subscribe exactly to their theocratic views. it is long past time that american policy and the policy of our friends and allies recognizes these blunt facts. we should tell the truth. in 2009 and again in 2019 we had the opportunity to support and encourage protesters agitating against a regime that is their enemy and is ours. and in both cases under administration's democratic and republican we failed the test. last

john bolton told me he thought that was a lie, an absolute lie. so we don't think that is true. arguing that. they did not argue in the brief this material was declassified. they didn't argue that in court yesterday. to the contrast, what they've said is, look, this was a dispute about presidential records. they actually compared it to an overdue library book. they said, you know, the president had these records that maybe he should have given back. of course, the lawyers said in their brief, of course they would have contained highly doc. that's the nature of presidential records. leaves you wondering, as you just said, what exactly is the defense here? i didn't discern one from the court hearing yesterday. the other interesting thing that came out of the hearing is, donald trump has lawyers who are former federal prosecutors. one was the head of the justice department's organized crime unit. they went into court yesterday and essentially accused the justice department of bad faith and wrongdoing. it is remarkable. you don't see that a lot in normal criminal cases, with no evid

that's a claim sort of laugh aid way by people like bill barr and john bolton and other vids to -- advisersuments they potentially have, one, a rule 41 motion to challenge the search warrant's existence period, in other words, to go after the reason why this search occurred and to have all those documents and materials returned to him, which would effectively end that avenue of the investigation for federal prosecutors. they still have a lot of documents, but it would stop the mar-a-lago search component if they were to succeed in court. the chances of that, legal experts say, are probably not very high, but it's at least an argument they could make by klis closing this to the special master, and, this is important, federal prosecutors in the view of the special master, they would have to assert which documents the president declassified, they would be giving away that argument. also, if they say this case went to indictment, they would be giving away a potential defense and kind of disclosing the types of things they would assert the former president declassified on his way out of office.