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Did for history and for the future of our constitution. >> senator grassly appealed his subpoena to the supreme court late today. what do you think his chances are? >> his chances are pretty much zero, anderson. when he lost in the district court there was a very reasonable opinion setting out exactly what testimony there could be and couldnt be pursuant to the debate speech clause. he lost unanimously in the 11th circuit when he appealed that ruling. now hes going to the supreme court. they wil...

Got -- when they first executed the search, and when they first went through it, they were seeing these things for the first time. you know, when they sent the first subpoena, that list just a bunch of different categories, pretty much every major category of classified intelligence, because they are trying to recover the entire universe of classified intelligence, including markings for nuclear weapons documents. and so, you can see from that that they are casting a very wide net, because they ...

Wide net, because they are really unsure what is there. >> devlin, to the degree that you can talk about this and know, what was the nature of this classified material? can you give us any sense of what the category of information we are talking about here? >> so, i think what is notable is that a bunch of these documents described intelligence gathering activities aimed at china, and that is important for a couple of reasons. one, that is some of the most secretive work the intelligence, the u....

Former president. then new york times reported earlier this year how trump, who withdrew the u.s. from the iran nuclear deal, how we took little interest in most stuff that he was briefed on. for one major exception, iran. quote, trump almost took always great interest in military intelligence briefings about iran, accusing defense officials about their contingency plans for a war with the country, and asking detailed questions about secret operations to counter iran in the middle east. trumps h...

Related to nuclear weapons. the next month, the post confirmed that it document relating to a foreign governments nuclear capabilities was indeed found at mar-a-lago during the fbi search. and now, today, we got another bombshell from devlin barrett, again, one that has been since confirmed by nbc news. heres the headline. mar-a-lago classified papers held u.s. equates about iran and china. look, some of the classified documents recovered by the fbi from donald trumps mar-a-lago home, included h...

Questions about secret operations to counter iran in the middle east. trumps handling of classified intelligence is a topic of huge concern, given the justice departments investigation into hidden white house records at trumps florida beach club. and now, we know quite a bit about trumps efforts destruct officials from receiving, which reading those documents. the question of what exactly was in those documents, well, that has been more elusive. in august, a team of washington post reporters, le...

Against him if, as they consider whether to file charges in this case. >> devlin barrett, scoop score,, bombshells going on. reporter at the washington post, covering national security and law enforcement, thank you for making the time tonight, devlin. really appreciate, it thanks for the great reporting. >> thanks for having me. >> we have a lot more to get to tonight. with the midterm elections, literally, weeks away, what should we expect from republican election officials who have to run a f...

And Steve Bannon gets four months in jail.

President Biden, in his first public comments about possible federal tax and gun charges against his son, said he had "great confidence" in Hunter Biden and he was "on a straight and narrow" after his struggles with substance abuse.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Devlin Barrett of The Washington Post about a Trump employee reportedly told federal agents about moving boxes at Mar-a-Lago at direction of ex-President Trump.