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Basically what s happened, is the courts have said, look, we want to get past the november midterm elections. we don t want this to be the deciding factor on how people vote. but this would be a big issue here. and it could be republicans saying states have right. this is the state of georgia saying we have a right to protection our election from interference, from a president, from a former president, from a senator not our senator. great to have that talk. it is difficult for us. we re doing this every day to keep track. we should note that doesn t list going into the business practices. save that for another time. still to come this hour, jackson, mississippi, residents, are still without safe drinking water, understandably angry as they wait for promised water distributions. while the governor is warning there has been some progress at ....
Presidential records could contain sensitive information, should never have been cause for alarm. they re essentially saying no problem here. disregarding the fact that these are not the former president s documents. they belong to the country, to the american people, to be stored with national archives. what do you make of this argument? they seem to have ignored the government s arguments in the motion that was filed previously, because they made very clear, these are subject to the presidential records act. when president trump left office and became private citizen trump, all of those documents are the property of the united states government. and the national archives and registration is supposed to be handling those. the president shouldn t have them at all. the defense that, well, you can expect to have some highly sensitive things because these are presidential records, they re basically admitting that he was holding on to presidential records that he should not have had. and ....
And other people around the trump white house at the time claim because there was no knowledge of any such order. and if there s no knowledge of an order and it was not executed by anybody, it probably didn t happen. thanks very much for the insight this morning. the department of justice investigation into the classified documents is one of seven investigations trump is currently facing. our cnn correspondent tom foreman is keeping track of them. jim and i talk about that it s hard for anyone to keep this all straight. it is. quite a constellation of investigation swirling around the former president. let s start with the d.o.j. documents we were talking about. the hearing today is on the issue of a special master. he added another new attorney to help deal with this. hundreds of classified documents removed, as paul noted a minute ago. no answer as to why the former president even has them, let alone why it was stored in a florida resort. and the department of justice ....
This question. what i d like to say is, while i obviously don t dispute that the president has the right to withdraw an ambassador at any time, for any reason, but what i do wonder is why it was necessary to smear my reputation. reporter: and after five hours of testimony, yovanovitch exiting to applause. let s get to mary bruce live on the hill tonight. there s still more unfolding at this hour. earlier this week, as we were watching the first day of televised hearings, the top diplomat in ukraine revealing a staffer overheard president trump through the phone on the day after that infamous call with the the of ukraine, and that he was checking in on the investigations. that was the word used in testimony this week. has that been backed up tonight? reporter: that aide, david holmes was sitting in a ....
Saying she was bad news and that she s going to go through some things. describing how it was threatening, unsettling. and then today the tweet from president trump right in the middle of it all. they read it to her on live tv. she was stunned again. democrats and republicans taken aback. mary bruce leads us off tonight from the hill. reporter: the ousted ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch, came to tell her story of being targeted by the president s allies, not knowing that she would soon be targeted again. i come before you as an american citizen who has devoted the majority of my life, 33 years, to service to the country that all of us love. reporter: as ambassador, she says she came under attack by the president s personal attorney, rudy giuliani, who saw her as an obstacle to the politically motivated investigations trump was hoping for. that she was smeared by the president s son and a host on fox news. looking to save her job, she reached out for advice from the presi ....