nicholas wu, always good to see you, congressional reporter at politico. thanks for coming on set. now i want to turn to mark zaid, an attorney who is pretty much an expert when it comes to cases involving national security and security clearances. mark, thank you for joining us. my first question is the folders. >> thanks, alex. >> my first question is the folders. and what we should sort of understand or presume about these missing documents or empty folders. perhaps the documents are not missing? when you heard that there were 48 empty folders with classified as of nations, do you assume that the justice department already has those in its possession? what is your thesis on those? >> yeah, substantively, honestly, i was not that concerned. because i have a vision in my mind as to how everything left the white house. and it is literally that someone took their arm and swept the entire desk off into boxes, no matter what was there. so i always say, if someone did that to my desk, there's an empty can of red bull and a stapler and maybe some attorney-client privilege documents and

nicholas wu covers congress for politico, and he's been on the committee.sha rangappa is a former fbi special agent, as well as an attorney and senior lecturer at yale university. and both join me now. nicholas, let me start with you, just in terms of your reporting on the committee, what the committee is preparing for this week? and also, their reaction to the riggleman book, which clearly, has them extremely unpleased? >> let's start with mr. riggleman. we know that the committee is really -- it put some distance between itself and former congressman riggleman, as far as this bill goes. they put out a statement over the weekend noting that he left the committee in april before he had actually -- before the committee interviewed some of its most important witnesses, like pat cipollone, or be able to call cassidy hutchinson publicly. there is a certain degree of separation between themselves and the former aide. at the same time, you know, when i asked the committee chair about the book last week, he said that he just had no chance to read it yet, and he wa

nicholas wu, good to see.re—education camps" are a tool to fight terrorism. translation: the so-called assessment is orchestrated l and manufactured by the us and some western forces. it is wholly illegal and invalid. the report is misinformation which serves as a political tool for the us and the west to strategically use xinjiang our united nations correspondent nada tawfik in in new york. anyone who reads this cannot fail to understand what is going on in xinjiang province. why did it take until the very last moment to lay out the evidence?— out the evidence? yes, well, christine. — out the evidence? yes, well, christine, the _ out the evidence? yes, well, christine, the former - out the evidence? yes, well, christine, the former high i christine, the former high commissioner michelle has been very open, in fact, with the pressure she was under not to release this report from china. now, she had already delayed a trip to china because of covid—i9. she went there in may. many had criticised her then for not

"politico's" nicholas wu, thank you so much, and we're going to have complete coverage of the hearing, previewing it tomorrow morning. >>> up next on "way too early," a look at midterm spending a little over a month before november's elections. >> and then coming up on "morning joe," more of what to expect from the january 6th select committee during tomorrow's hearing, including newly revealed video of trump ally roger stone appearing to call for violence in the weeks before the attack on the capitol. >>> former trump chief of staff mark meadows is scheduled to testify before the special grand jury investigating the special attempts to influence the 2020 election in georgia. we'll get live reporting from the fulton county courthouse. >>> also ahead, democratic senator amy klobuchar is a guest. "morning joe" is just a few minutes away. guest. "morning joe" is just a few minutes away ♪♪ >>> joining us now, a look at axios a.m., political reporter laughlin mckay, great to see you this morning. what is the "axios" one big thing today. >> we're tracking spending, money and politics tracki

nicholas wu joins me on set. great to see you.ed the end of last week, about the search of mar-a-lago. we have a more detailed list of the inventory. we're also still waiting for a decision on the special master. what should we expect to learn in the days ahead? >> well, we might learn more about the folders. we don't know whether there was any files taken out of the folders at some point. all we know is that there were these dozens of folders marked -- empty folders marked classified among the documents taken from mar-a-lago. we might learn a bit more there. as for the special master, we're waiting on a ruling from the federal judge. we know, based on the arguments last week in court, she did seem somewhat inclined to provide some restraints on the federal search of the documents. at the same time, the fbi has already gone through a lot of them. it remains to be seen what effect that'd actually have. >> so the empty folders, those on the right, a number of trump's allies, including his eldest son, took that to mean, hey, what's t

labeled top, secret want to bring in nicholas wu and mark perot bliss -- former cia officer as well. e start with you on this one. give us the play-by-play, the abc's whatever you want to call it of monday. what we can expect to see and court or come out of court should say especially when it comes to 100 or so top secret documents? >> well what we will see moving forward is how exactly judge cannon rules on what appears to be some of the disagreements between doj and trump's lawyers. that timeframe for what the special maps are dealing with. whether the hundred or so documents marked classified, will be a part of this review and what doj can do with. them for that matter, who even pays for it and so something that we will see play out in the court in the coming days but one thing is for, sure doj is threatened to move this up to the appeals court. depending on what judge canada's. all eyes will be on the court here. >> -- when it comes to odni reviewing kind of the damage done by these documents at mar-a-lago. that were subsequently seized, saying in consultation with the department

in addition to -- his first hearing -- with that -- congressional reporter nicholas wu has been reporting on this stuff. along with msnbc legal analyst brian kirschner. nicholas, let me soar with you on this one. which is focus on if we can. first reporting when it comes to tuesday. kind of this deadline now level by the 11th circus for the former presidents attorneys to respond. and of course a special master holding a hearing. shall we say in laying out what will likely be ahead. so what can we expect from tuesday? what are you hearing? >> we're very -- it's exactly how we might proceed. we're going to see what arguments trump's lawyers are going to lay out in response to doj's attempt to -- in doing so, they're filing is likely to repeat a lot of the arguments they've made before about the former presidents handling of documents. and perhaps dodging some of these broader concerns about whether or not documents were declassified. which isn't that trump has said himself. but his lawyers have not asserted in court. we're also going to see the exactly how the special master process might l

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