tell us what you re thinking because everyone is going to be watching tomorrow. you know there s never anything in front of me. i try to listen and be in the moment, but i think some big things on their agenda and a lot of big questions we all have who cover the white house and the country. i jump into the chair saturday as the events in russia were unfolding, and that is a story that gets more surreal by the day. the more we learn, the more bizarre and remarkable that story is. of course i m excited to hear what he thinks the problem is there and putin s a leader he s been dealing with for decades. as you remind everyone the presidency for being there at the white house is always more than one job and always can change in an instant. i m looking forward to watching what they sometimes a colloquy or an interview. we ll be watching tomorrow. thank you, my friend. see you soon. again, we ll this up on msnbc tonight during our hour, other hours and tomorrow to remind e
portion causing the most serious and immediate harm to the government and the public. one, restricting the government s review and use of records bearing classification markings. and two, requiring the government to disclose those records for a special master review process. the doj asking for the court to allow its criminal investigators to review the materials marked as classified and for the court to exclude those documents from the special master s review of the search. it is a fight that could go all the way to the supreme court, so we must talk about this now. i want to get right to cnn s justice correspondent jessica schneider, cnn legal analyst and former assistant u.s. attorney jeff, rogers, and special watergate prosecutor nic acerman. jessica, i want to start with you. what can you tell us what the doj is saying in this filing tonight? they re tell this court, look, we want two things the lower court judge eileen canon refused to give us last night. they want to
reality tv based. i love the inventing ana. i love the interview because you know most people can t speak to her. even the shows and series people have, there are drawings of her, there s drawings from her in jail. now this is actually right in the thick of things. it was a great interview. thank you so much. i don t think if you picked it up i m not really sure i m buying what you re selling. but we ll see. i think the phrase is you weren t picking up what was being put down. we ll see. she has a chance now to do her thing. let s see what she does. let s see what she does and i think we ll probably get a show out of it. i wouldn t be surprised maybe there was another angle to pursue. maybe that s the next one. thanks so much. great show as always. good evening, everyone. look, this is cnn tonight. i m laura coates. allison is off tonight. we ll see her again soon. we are going to keep our conversation going with panels across the political spectrum. this is a day
astonishing. it s unprecedented. but don t take my word for it. listen to the former attorney general, bill barr, who was on fox news today. that s right, fox. let me just say, i think the driver on this from the beginning was loads of classified information sitting in mar-a-lago. people say this was unprecedented. well, it s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put it in a country club, okay? and how long is the government going to try to get that back? you know, they jawbone for a year. they were deceived on the voluntary actions taken. they then went and got a subpoena. they were deceived on that, they feel. and the facts are starting to show that they were being jerked around. so, you know, how long do they wait? i mean, that s a good question. and it s probably one that was asked before they went for that search warrant. and also found in the search of mar-a-lago, dozens of empty folders with classified bands. that s right, e
mixed in with a mess of whole other stuff. i find that odd. some kind affjunk drawer happening because, look, some of the nation s most important secrets potentially and again we don t know what is in these documents. we still don t know. we know the type of document, the classification. bullet the fact a document of this potential could be mixed in with clothes and gifts and press clippings, do you see possibly an innocent explanation interest this? let s think about a benefit of the doubt. can one be extended? not at all. i mean there is absolutely no good reason for donald trump to have taken any of this. i mean, there s no justification for why he d have to use it. i mean it just these are documents that belong to the government. they should have been left behind. he has not come up with any justification as to why he had the right to have these documents. he claimed at one point recently that he declassified them. but he never made that argument in the course of,