found mixed in with newspapers, clothing and gifts. trump s former attorney general is now defending the serarch an seizure saying, yes, that should have been done a long time ago. what people are missing is that all the other documents taken, even if they claim to be executive privilege, either belong to the government because they re government records, even if they re classified, even if they re subject to executive privilege, they still belong to the government and go to the archives. people say this was unprecedented. it s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, okay? and how long is the government going to try to get that back, you know, they jawboned 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. and joining me now, cnn senior legal analyst,
they re growing silence has one s favorite network is moving on. is he already losing the fox news primary? and later, matt gates s bullying tactics backfired big-time. how is body shaming helping one teen abortion activist raised over 1 million dollars? my interview with her and much more is coming up. a good saturday morning to you. i am katie phang. we ll see, or want to. the good question this morning about whether speaker nancy pelosi will visit china on a trip to asia this weekend. china said it will take, quote, forceful measures if it happens. taiwan s self governed by china claims it is a part of its territory and promises to take it back by force if necessary. for more on all of this we are joined by nbc news correspondent allie raffa on capitol hill. katie, nancy pelosi saving security concerns for why she could not confirm or deny whether she or a group of house lawmakers will visit taiwan during this multi day four of asia. military officials say that they are
team now filing a response to that fbi search for all of those boxes of classified material in his florida home two weeks ago. we ll start with the fbi seizure of classified documents at mar-a-lago. the former president wants a neutral third party called a special master to review the documents taken by the fbi and return anything not within the scope of the search warrant. we re also getting new information about how much sensitive data was at mar-a-lago and the concern at the national archives months ago, which set off this entire investigation. all right, so, let s get to cnn s senior crime and justice reporter, kaitlan. we know in january, the national archives retrieved 15 boxes of material from mar-a-lago, and we are learning, thanks thao the reporting, about exactly how much classified info was in those boxes. one of the things we re learning now is because the national archives is making public a letter back in may that fills out our timeline a little bit more,
is cnn newsroom, with kim brun brunhuber. we begin with breaking news out of moscow. russia is confirming for first time that it did strike the ukrainian port of odesa. the russian foreign ministry now says it hit military targets in the port with precision missiles, but these strikes came one day after ukraine and russia signed an agreement in istanbul, which would allow ukraine to resume grain exports through its ports. now, turkey said moscow initially denied it had anything to do with the strikes, and turkey said the attack hit port facilities, but didn t damage any infrastructure that would be used in grain exports. condemnation of the attack has been swift with britain saying russia s word can t be taken at face value. it is absolutely appalling that only a day after striking this deal, vladimir putin has launched a completely unwarranted attack on odesa. it shows that not a word he says can be trusted, and we need to urgently work with our international partners
these hearings. the select committee investigating the capitol riot hold its next public hearing tuesday at 1 pm eastern. it will focus on former president trump s efforts to push key officials in several states to change their 2020 election results. georgia s republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger, and his deputy gave are both expected to testify. we ve all heard the infamous phone call where then president trump was trying to force raffensperger to find votes, essentially, just make stuff up so he could become the president again. but we will go through a variety of issues that we think will be revealing. not everything has been out in the public so far. we also know the justice department is paying close attention to the house investigation. today, the committee said, it s cooperating with the doj request for transcripts of the interviews with witnesses. the department made its first request back in april. but the panel wanted to wait until its investigati