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that is central to his whole ideology, it is being. so this is kind of the ex central fight for his life that i think he relishes. >> so alien to me, just as a person. i cant imagine. but, you know. >> yes, well i will think twice about suing you, yeah. >> please dont. >> thank you, chris, as always. thank you this at home for joining us this hour. it is been a bad day for donald trump. this morning he was sued by new york attorney general, a lawsuit that could potentially bring him ou...

hours trump has suffered a legal setback in a different case. the one regarding the materials seized from his florida beach club. an appeals court has ruled that the justice department can have access to roughly 100 highly simplified classified documents that were taken from mar-a-lago. trump has been arguing that all the documents seized from his club or his personal property, and that if the fbi found anything classified in there, well, trump magically declassified it when he was pre...

its republican governor can make a midterm immigration point as a texas sheriff makes him the target of an investigation. ron desantis defends his move. >> they all signed consent forms to go and then the vendor that is doing this for florida provided them with a packet that had a map of marthas vineyard, the numbers for different services on marthas vineyard. >> what weve been able to do is show this border is a disaster. biden has failed on this as much or more than on any other poli...

government had established probable cause of potential violation of three federal statutes. number one relates to the unlawful removal of government material. number two relates to the law prohibiting the destruction or concealment of documents to obstruct an investigation. number three, potentially the most explosive, the espionage act. the inventory of what the fbi seized includes around 20 boxes of items including four sets of top-secret documents, three sets of secret documents, an...

Exactly two former presidents. as to trumps argument that he secretly magically declined the document at some point. the judge is right, quote, its a classification argument is a red herring, because to classifying an official document would not change its content or render it personal. so even if we assume that plaintive trump did declassify some or all of these documents, that would not explain why he has a personal interest in them. this ruling is really a pretty full-throated rebuke of ailee...

Appointees have brushed back that lower court judge, aileen cannon, and said that yes, the justice department can indeed have access to those classified documents after all. the judge is right in their opinion, quote, for our, part we cannot discern why a plaintive trump would have an individual interest in or need for any of the 100 documents with classification markings. a person may have access to classified information only if, among other requirements, he has a need to know the information....

Been the target of every foreign intelligence service for years? it doesnt look like a hard place to get inside and walk around. these were in boxes. even if theyre behind a locked door, its not like theyre not foreign adversaries who are able to get their hands on that information and learn really important things potentially about our intelligence collection, our nuclear programs, and as neil said, another point to make here is when he makes the classification argument hes not just talking abo...