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life as well when he held on to documents contain something of the nations most sensitive national security secrets and then stonewalled efforts by the government to retrieve those documents. well start with the trump organization going on trial. jury selection began in the case brought by the manhattan d.a. against the trump family business alleging a 15-year scheme in which top executives were compensated off the books in order to avoid paying taxes. as "the new york times" reports t...

draft. as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. >> good evening everyone im ornament mormon median in for stephanie ruhle. donald trump has tried just about everything to slow down the governments investigation into the classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. now hes taking his course to the supreme court. today, trump made an emergency request, asking the court to overturn a lower court ruling that prevented the special master from revealing the roughly 100 classifie...

i am ali velshi. we know more this weekend than ever before about the fbi. and the search of the mar-a-lago estate. new details just released to the public, the possibility of criminal prosecution of the twice impeached ex presidents so plausible, now, that some federal prosecutors are actually seeing it out loud. less than 24 hours ago we got our first look at the affidavit used by the fbi to convince a federal judge to greenlight the mar-a-lago search. the document is heavily redacte...

Former presidents residence and something the department of justice didnt to lightly. so they continue with that probe and they continue at the same time with the same team looking at whats the danger to resources, to intelligence gathering methods. what is possible release because all of these classified records were possibly in a beach club storage closet or in former president trumps home and office. were they handled or mishandled or handled without any potential security? any short security...

Is pursuing. it is clear that since april, based on the letter written by trump lawyers, trump and his team knew that donald trump was the potential target of this criminal investigation. his lawyer argued, you cannot criminalize a paper records violation. you cannot do this. he made this argument, over and over again. the problem is in the former presidents own making. donald trump was told by his lawyers in the spring, and then in the fall of 2021, to return these documents. told that these do...

Hypocrisy. >> that is the suggestion. look, all of these directors, both republicans and democrats that precede her are supporting her. in addition to that we work daily -- i work daily with people from other countries that are involved in the intelligence gathering methods and working with our c.i.a. and they are just delighted that gina haspel will be running this agency. >> bill: thank you for your time. james risch the republican from idaho on the hill. well speak about. >> sandra: our cover...

Analyst michael zeldin and good evening to all of you. jim, so according to this newly released transcript former british spy christopher steele was so concerned that then candidate trump was being blackmailed that he personally went to the fbi. what more can you tell us? >> listen, don, from the beginning the republican argument and really the trump argument has been that the dossier was purely a political document. that it was democratic conceive wrs ed, manufactured and delivered. but if you ...

The u.s. will be dealing with for years the sensitive information, the potential. he even has information about war plans. have a listen to what general flynn had to say. >> as far as capabilities, are we talking about u.s. war plans? >> are we talking about intelligence gathering methods. what exactly is it? >> it is sort of an all of the above. it is intelligence capabilities, operational capabilities, technology, weapons systems. >> do you thisnk that russia ha access to the kind of materials...

Well discuss all of that now. joining me is jim sciutto, legal analyst michael zeldin and good evening to all of you. jim, so according to this newly released transcript former british spy christopher steele was so concerned that then candidate trump was being blackmailed that he personally went to the fbi. what more can you tell us? >> listen, don, from the beginning the republican argument and really the trump argument has been that the dossier was purely a political document. that it was demo...