Nice one kelly, l0 florida, every step Covered Smerkonish Saturdays at 90 a critical day for former President Trump and his legal cases as a court in florida tackled the core issue over his handling of classified docs and meantime, in georgia, we are waiting on judge scott mcafee weighing a move with huge implications for the Election Interference Case in that state and democrats on the trail and hitting issues that are on the minds of voters. 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Hes attending a hearing in florida for his classified documents cases is lawyers are trying to get the case missed theyre arguing that trump was completely within his authority to deem the materials, his personal records, and bring them home after leading the white house, special counsel jack smith argues Top Secret National Security documents had no place at mar alago. Trump appointed judge Aileen Cannon is hearing the arguments and shes weighing a potential trial date. We have cnns Kaitlan Polantz at the Federal Courthouse in florida. Kaitlan, how is the hearing played out so far well, brianna, there are two parts to this hearing. This morning. It has been whether the law was its clear enough for donald trump to know that he may have been breaking it when he took those National Defense records from the white house tomorrow, lago, the judge seemed to tip her hand at the end of the two hours of oral arguments in that question saying to trumps Team FindingsSomething Like this, so vague or unconstitutionally vague as they say it is, that would be an jordan aires steps. So thats where the judge seems to be on that particular question. That was one bid that trumps team was making to try and get the case tossed. But theres another set of arguments this afternoon that are just starting any moment now. And that is about whether these are personal records. Donald trump says that these were his to choose and his to take take from the white house whenever he left the presidency, took them tomorrow, lago, he indeed took them. Hes admitting to that. But the Justice Department has argued quite clearly that they werent his they were National Security records, they were things about weapons fence, military strikes, Military Retaliation Exposure of the United States had, and that those were so clearly National Defense pieces of information the trump knew it because he was president , because he had a sense of how important National Security was. And on top of that, already in court, weve heard prosecutors youre refer to that bedminster meeting trump had after he left the presidency where he waved around a record of military significance. And spoke about it being climate ossified, wanting to have it shared more widely and knowing he could not. Were still waiting to see what else judge cannon will say today, but we arent expecting a full ruling from her at least during court today. So when could this be decided . Kaitlan its a great question and its going to be the question every day in this case going forward, there are so many things that the trump team has asked for, and there are many, many asks. Theyre making to have their case dismissed. Judge cannon has these things piled up in front of her right now . First and foremost, when will the trial be when is there gonna be a trial date that was a hearing two weeks ago, we had here still hasnt issued that calendar to see if we will have a trial set for before the election. These sorts of legal questions on dismissing the case as trump is asking those take a little bit of time for judges to work through very typically they write long opinions. And so when judge cannon finally gets into the meat of this case, still remains to be seen. There has very little that she has done in the Big Questions that criminal defendants often are put through before they go to trial. All right. Katelyn polantz. Thank you for that. Now, lets bring in cnns kristen holmes, who is in washington, and kristen, a reminder as this so often the case and as a reminder that trumps legal strategy and Campaign Strategy are often one in the same he doesnt actually have to be there at these Legal Proceedings today and he is ready. He does not have to be there. But one thing to note about this particular case versus what we have seen in the past is that were not going to see donald trump today. There is no microphone setup. There are no cameras there. Hes got basically going into a garage, going into court. Theres no cameras there leaving and going back to maralago, not delivering remarks, not making a spectacle of it. So it is slightly different from what we have seen on the campaign trail. The other part of this is that we are told that donald trump wants to participate in his defense, particularly in this case, and he wants the judge to see him as a willing participant when it comes to this case, but soon he is not going to have the option as to whether or not to attend trial. We know that the end of the month we are expected to see that new york Hush Money Trial is going to be the first trial. And donald trump is required to attend every day of the actual trial. And im told hes actually indicated to his staff that even on the earlier days, like jury selection, that its procedural that he might not have to be there for him he wants to be there for so what youre going to start seeing is even more of this navigating between running a general Election Campaign and being in and out of a courtroom for example, wednesdays and saturdays, those are the days donald trump is not important. New york, those are the days they are looking at two planned Campaign Rallies are planned campaign events, the other thing to point out here is that this is going to be a very fine line to walk because they know Donald Trumps team just how close a general election rematch with President Joe Biden is going to be. They are trying to already build out their strategy, their teams in these Battleground States particularly states that they think they could win. States that biden won in 2020, but trump won in 2016. However, Donald Trumps not visiting those states instead, as we said, he today is in a courtroom in florida then at the end of the month, youll be forced to be in a courtroom in new york. So how they navigate this is its really going to be an unprecedented thing to watch all right, and we will be watching for sure. Kristen holmes. Thank you for that report. Worse, lets discuss with one of Donald Trumps former attorneys on this case, tim parlatore. Tim, thank you so much for sharing part of your afternoon with us. Essentially, the goal here for trumps team in one of these motions is to hang this on an interpretation of the president ial records act. Im wondering whether you would have taken that approach oh, theres no question thatd be any competent lawyer would pursue that. There is precedent from the from the Clinton Administration that president essentially has unfettered discretion whether to designate something as a personal record are president ial records. So the question of whether that extends to classified documents or National Defense information is something that hasnt yet been tested. So i think any attorney would at least make the motion but in this case, its not just about the kind of record. Its the way that he in his view, designated Them Declassified just by thinking about it or just by moving them. Is that really a strong argument to say that a president can declassify something just by having the thought well, i dont think that thats necessarily the legal argument that made them one of the political talking points. But, you know, what happened here is you have documents that ordinarily would be kept in a scif in a classified environment. And in the white house, they dont do that. And its a problem problem with every Single Administration is not unique to the trump administration. And so when you take documents out, the president often could say, hey, i want this declassified does a staffer actually then go through all the process of actually declassifying it thats a question of fact as to whether thats been done, whether that is something that falls on him or on the staffer. Thats significant because you did write a letter to congress stressing that yes. In your view, part of this was a procedural issue in what essentially amounts to a disorganized exit did from the white house. But in what prosecutors are arguing, it seems like the trump team was well aware that some of the stuff they had a to more than just any other records in the way that they were handled. Actually want to play a clip from former trump employee, brian butler telling cnn about how he unknowingly helped trump codefendant walt nauta, move some boxes from maralago onto trumps plane this was the same day that trumps team was meeting with the doj at maralago. Lets listen i had loaded a bunch of the family luggage into a minivan and i was just going to drive it to the plane, loaded up and thats it. But during the us getting luggage, walt asked, hey, i need a minivan. Sure. Go ahead. And then he left and i was i didnt think anything of it. It was a little odd the way he asked me. I mean its stood out now after all this but him and carlos were gone at that time i didnt know because typically he wouldnt go get a vehicle, drive himself, and get luggage so it was unusual for him to make that ask of you . It seemed odd to me so if the trump team wasnt trying to hide anything, if they believe that these were personal records, why take these extra steps that were unusual to employees at maralago, why not just go to the National Archives and say, heres what weve got. Lets hash it out. Why this why these steps that now prosecutors claim amount to obstruction well, a lot of this does go into a much deeper analysis of how the case came to be and the way that the National Archives handled this and the way that doj handled this was something that i think needlessly escalated. The animosity between the parties and tried to make everybody think that there was something wrong here. But really this is something that could have been handled very simply as to mr. Butlers testimony quite frankly, i think that the judge is probably not going to allow him to say a lot of those things in trial because all of these really saying is that there were white Bankers Boxes. Let me tell you something. Ive searched trump tower. There are a lot of white Bankers Boxes that look very much the same because you can buy them at staples. And he uses them for old real estate documents, Campaign Documents all sorts of things. Some of the documents in the neck National Archives right now are full of documents that all poststate the presidency things go into march of 2021. So the idea that because theres whitebox, is that must be classified documents. Yeah. Thats a stretch that i dont think the judge would ever allow them to get to a jury i think the part of what he shared with cnn that was significant wasnt necessarily the fact that these were Bankers Boxes, but the way that the trump Team Approached him about handling them, and whether that revealed something to him about what they might contain im curious if you dont see a discrepancy between the way that the trump team tried to approach the handling of these boxes, and the idea that these are just any other records that need to get moved from maralago To Bedminster or elsewhere . So what makes it unique is that he asked for a van to move boxes instead of putting it in the back of an suv. Hes implying either playing Something Different, hes implying that there was Something Different in the protocol that that raised a thought in his mind that there was Something Different about this. And it implies that there were steps taken by trumps team that were unusual specifically to these boxes. That doesnt stand out to you know, because its something that didnt occur to him at the time. Its something that occurred to him. Yeah. Months later after theres an indictment and whereas hes supposedly going to be a government witness and so what government witness and their right mind is going out and giving Tv Interviews at this time i think that hes hes essentially sideline himself as being an effective witness in any case tim, im curious to get your thoughts on the way the defense team has brought up the decision by special counsel robert hur, to not press charges against President Biden for his handling of classified documents. Theyre trying to argue that the legal system is bias, that theres a twotiered system of law her himself though, and his findings outline a significant differences between these two cases. Do you think its a good idea to draw attention to something that doesnt necessarily make your client look good. I think a lot of that depends on how they draw it, because there are certainly are distinctions. And one of those distinctions is the doj approached Joseph Joe Biden at a time that maralago had already been raided and i think that thats a fact thats kind of getting lost here is if im representing joe biden and this is going on, im going to advise him, hey, we need to make a big show of how different we are than donald trump. And so i think a lot of the the theater of joe biden being cooperative is largely informed by trying to create an impression of being different from donald trump. But ultimately, if you do look at those two cases, the huge difference is not in how they reacted once they were approached by doj, but rather how the documents gotten out of the white house, got out of the senate, and how they were stored. And what was done with them. You know, joe biden, according to that report, was sharing things with people with biographer and giving people access to them in a way that goes well beyond what is alleged of Donald Trumps. I do think that you can take portions of that to show a disparity even though robert hur did draw distinctions in the manner in which they responded to doj when approached you might make the argument that biden was counseled a certain way. I dont know that we necessarily have evidence for that, but hurs findings are hurs findings and i dont know how thats going to play out in court necessarily. Were going to Say Something is worth raising the argument. I mean, its one of those arguments, yeah, most likely president ial records act, that any competent lawyer would it a minimum raise the argument and to see if theres something that can be raised from it. Whether its successful or not, well see tim parlatore. Appreciate the time thank you. Of course. 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