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The news continues. i want to hand it over to laura coates and "cnn tonight." >> hey anderson, looking forward to "heroes" on sunday. im going to cry most of it, but ill still watch it and be happy that youre there. thank you. have a good weekend. >> you too. good evening, everyone. im laura coates. this is "cnn tonight." sources tell cnn a federal judge is denying the doj request to hold former president trump in contempt for failing to turn over classified documents. weve got more on what al...

Not know what evidence it would actually be able to use in court, because of the whole special master. without knowing exactly what evidence was at its disposal it was unlikely the doj would be able to put together a complete case, let alone indict. but now that is all over, and done with, and the justice department can finally get down to business. and what happened in court today, if it is any indication, it looks like the doj is coming out swinging. today, the justice department went to court...

Newly-emboldened justice department. did you see it that way? >> i do, alex. it is nice to finally see a party in court on his side of the field. he will just grind you down with frivolous motion after frivolous motion, and delay, delay, delay. that is what he does. it is clear that this team is not doing that. as a former prosecutor, i also see this effort to hold him in contempt as a win-win. you can have the court leave it in contempt and get the documents back, or the fact that he will not t...

>> exactly. the nightmares. the sleepless nights. you know, some of the medical conditions that some of us deal with. the deficiency of vitamins and minerals we got to cap up on and get back into playing shape, i guess, would be the term, and, you know, its a hard road. >> jason and bill, appreciate it. next, new developments in the trump documents case. a judge refusing a request by the department of the justice to hole the former president in contempt. it was a time machine. (whispering) hello...

Protection here. do you think it impacts it? >> he is the stand in for everybody who feels they should have, could have, would have been this great billionaire if it had not been for the government. >> or these darn kids. >> these other people. so he knows how to play to that. it is a part of i guess his charm for this base. it has nothing to do with the facts. so he could be indicted, he could be held in contempt. everything could come out in public. but its the feelings that will always trump ...

To take essentially drastic action against trump and the team, hold them in contempt for not fully complying with the subpoena for the classified documents because the doj isnt confident that they have all the documents. so instead what unfolded in this court hearing our team is learning is this jump didnt hold trump in contempt, at least in the yet, but pushed back multiple times. in particular, she was very bothered about why prosecutors were stuck on getting someone from trumps legal team to ...

Ill still watch it and be happy that youre there. thank you. have a good weekend. >> you too. good evening, everyone. im laura coates. this is "cnn tonight." sources tell cnn a federal judge is denying the doj request to hold former president trump in contempt for failing to turn over classified documents. weve got more on what all of this means in just a moment. and tonight, our polarized politics are on full display. theres kevin mccarthy, who was threatening a floor fight in his battle to b...

Cnn is learning a federal judge refused a request by the justice department to hold former president donald trump in contempt of court for fail to go comply with a subpoena ordering him to turn over all classified documents in his possession. the judge instead urged trumps team and the department of justice to resolve the matter themselves. senior legal analyst elie honig joins us now. elie, what do you make of this? >> reporter: well, jim, it shows the judge was not willing to go to the extreme...

Material. just astounding that were in that situation two years out. >> it shows that the people around are the people who are in his inner circle or the people who hes paying to represent him, they dont trust him. because if they were to do that, they would have criminal risk themselves. >> theyve seen this movie before, in a certain sense, which is in june his lawyers do make that statement, that they have returned all the documents in response to the subpoena, to the best of their knowledge. ...

To get the judge to do. so, thats one part. but the fact that the court doesnt go along with them. its difficult to know what that means. the "new york times," for example, is reporting we dont know if that was our final decision it. >> sounds like shes saying maybe not now. exhaust all of your efforts to try to figure this out because cnns reporting is that, for example, the justice department was -- had concerns about the details of the search of bedminster and what they had found or hadnt fou...