that campaigns for equal representation in american politics. hello welcome to the programme. so here we are, election day 2022. post pandemic, postjanuary 6, the first real test of american democracy since that bitterly disputed election two years ago. the polls on the east coast start closing in two hours time. i hope you willjoin katty and i for our special programme through the night as we try and make sense of it all. these mid terms don t always attract the same attention as a presidential election, but early voting broke all records and it does feel more important. there are election deniers on the ballot, candidates refusing to say whether they will accept the results. this will set the stage for 202a. and if democrats lose control of the house or the senate tonight, joe bidens agenda will stall. in the end it will come down to turnout, it always does, and last night the two sides made their last appeal. today we face an inflection point, one of those moments that co
unique classified documents were seized by federal agents during the search at mar-a-lago. that raises serious questions of possible perjury by trump lawyers or others who signed letters to the fbi that they had turned everything over after a subpoena in june. most remarkably, the justice department lawyers included this extraordinary image. an fbi photo of top secret documents and other classified documents on the carpet of the former president s home office. the government says investigators developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were taken to obstruct the government s investigation. the doj lawyers say the trump request for a special master to review the seizd documents is unnecessary and would, quote, significantly harm the government s national security interests. the sheer volume of documents with classified markings recovered in the search were more than twice the amount that were turned over