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not oppose it. as we continue to await a decision from the judge as to whether or not she will grant trumps request for a third party independent review -- that special master -- there are two big headlines emerging from todays filing. the first, again, is over 10,000 documents were found at mar-a-lago. that is big early. the second found 48 folders classified and 42 more empty folders marked return to staff secretary slash military aid. doing the math here, that is 90 folders that wer...

democratic right. happy labor day weekend, chris. -- >> happy holiday weekend, again -- there is no such thing as a summer friday anymore. so we are just want to jump right in. over 10,000 documents. that is the number of documents that the fbi retrieved from trumps beach club in august alone. today we got a clear picture for the first time of the sheer volume of documents that traveled nearly 1000 miles from the white house to trumps palm beach club, when a federal judge unsealed a pr...

and the justice department did not oppose it. as we continue to await a decision from the judge as to whether or not she will grant trumps request for a third party independent review -- that special master -- they are two big headlines emerging from todays filing. the first, again, is over 10,000 documents were found at mar-a-lago. that is bigly -- then they found 48 documents mark classified. and 42 more empty folders marked return to staff secretary slash military aid. doing the mat...

florida property -- -- in part these are -- was not necessarily for appropriate. >> its important to note that the search would be required for top -- as well as the fbi director chris wray. according to a person whos familiar with the matter, the search focus on trumps mar-a-lago -- -- cnn has learned that officials were examining where documents were stored and that some boxes were removed from that resort in mar-a-lago cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is in washin...

pelosis visit to taiwan. man, did that anger china and seeing the self-governing independent democratic island nation as its own territory. and the response beijing launched military drills in the taiwan strait and they will have more drills coming up. but the defiance of american officials against china demonstrating yet again this countrys commitment to democracy and the government in they taipei. alexandria hoff. alex: although china announced more drills, china show of force hasnt ...

And, hi, nicolle, happy friday. mike used the phrase that has been running through my mind since i read the story, which is atrib urting to in an intelligence official, a counterintelligence nightmare. hes a walking, talking, if you could call what comes out of his mouth talking, but hes a per ambulating, blathering national security risk. he has been. and if you combine the personality, lack of respect for the institution of the presidency and the united states itself, cavalierness about everyt...

You know, in that area, right around then. and you dont need to be, you know, peter struck to know that classified documents need to be protected and held because if anyone gets to them, the damage could be severe to national security. and not only was mar-a-lago a place that trump supporters have gone, it is also a place that foreign business folks go and foreign officials go. and they go to meet with trump and to ingratiate themselves with him and it has been a counterintelligence nightmare as...

Know whether these documents were classified or not, that were in these folders. but these are still incredibly important things. if they are important enough to make it to the desk of the president of the united states, that is something we should probably care about. lots of things that make it to the desk of the president of of the united states, maybe not super important to national security, but the fact that maybe it needed to be returned to the staff secretary would suggest that it was no...

Maybe it needed to be returned to the staff secretary would suggest that he was not just the piece of paper that could land with no incident, right? >> yeah, exactly, these are things that with policy could potentially be implemented -- even if its not classify, this could potentially be something very important. >> then there is mar-a-lago itself. the more we learn about the porous nature of the beach club, the more it seems like, in the words of joel bran or, the former head of u.s. counterint...

Classified or not, that were in these folders. but these are still incredibly important things. if they are important enough to make it to the desk of the president of the united states, that is something we should probably care about. >> a lot of things that make it to the desk of the president of the next eight hours maybe not super important to national security, but the fact that maybe it needed to be returned to the staff secretary would suggest that he was not just the piece of paper that ...