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what they teach. in the meantime -- what has to figure out whether can even teach students about the civil rights era. that doesnt for us tonight. i will see you next week. now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. >> good evening, we have a statement from new york city mayor, eric adams on the death threats of the district attorney brag received today. the mayor says, while we cannot comment on the specifics of any ongoing investigation, no public officials should ever be...

in the meantime this college what has to figure out whether can even teach students about the civil rights era. that does it for us tonight. i will see you next week. now its time for the last >> good evening, we have a statement from new york city word with lawrence odonnell. word with lawrence odonnell. mayor, eric adams on the death threats of the district attorney brag received today. the mayor says, while we cannot comment on the specifics of any ongoing investigation, no public o...

A preliminary intent to allow a neutral third party, typically a retired judge, to review the documents. The former president s attorney claims a Special Master is necessary to ensure the Justice Department returns any of trumps private belongings and documents covered by Attorney Client privilege. But, the Justice Department has indicated it is already using an internal filter team to review everything which was seized by the fbi. For now, cnns Political Correspondent sara murray live now, sara...

a preliminary intent to allow a neutral third party, typically a retired judge, to review the documents. the former presidents attorney claims a special master is necessary to ensure the justice department returns any of trumps private belongings and documents covered by attorney client privilege. but, the justice department has indicated it is already using an internal filter team to review everything which was seized by the fbi. for now, cnns political correspondent sara murray live ...

be the next prime minister, taking over for boris johnson, as the leader of a country in crisis. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. im brianna keilar, and this is a "the situation room" special report. >> we begin with the major new development in the mar-a-lago search and the justice department investigation into former president trumps handling of classified documents. a federal judge granting his request for an outside attorn...

legislators of the state look into this. >> reporter: beyond the doj probe, a separate criminal investigation into trump and his allies is escalating in georgia, where investigators subpoenaed key trump allies, including rudy giuliani and south carolina senator lindsey graham. the district attorney there says more subpoenas may soon be headed to trumps inner circle. >> were going to do our due diligence. >> reporter: at a separate congressional investigation unearthing new details, lik...

Reason he does that, or does not do that, is because he doesnt want anything incriminating to be in writing. instead, he speaks very subtly. and michael cohen said that he would never tell you directly what to do, but he would say it in a way that you knew exactly what to do. but here is why i think he is too cute by half. this is the guy that we are now starting to see probably thinks that he is bulletproof, shielded, invincible, and hes talking to his lawyers. and now we are seeing, time after...

This is different, this is what is called at least asserting executive privilege somehow that being a former president his papers or documents are things cannot be made available to other areas of the government. its an odd argument. needless to say, even if he had a point here, and even if you are correct on this executive privilege point, the justice department has had this document since august 8th. they have been filing them, collating, them whatever maybe. any request for some other party t...

Is not donald trumps private attorney. he is counsel for the presidency as a whole, and he clearly is doing the right thing, i think, in coming forth and providing additional information. i think it is wrong for anyone to assume hes going to provide anything different than what he has said in the past. he will continue to acknowledge the information and the advice and counsel he gave to the president, and if nothing else, i think it will corroborate some of the testimony we heard from cassidy hu...

It seems like a plain reading of the law and its not surprising that the attorney would fund that way and direct contradiction of the government right now. >> yeah. oh, what a web we weave. congress under the constitution has very broad power to get information and one of the jobs is legislating again. its not for the executive to say we dont believe you have demonstrated to us. >> thats not how it works. >> the second thing it ignores is frankly, there are a lot of significant issues about whet...