we begin this hour with a slew of legal setbacks for former president trump including the new orders by the special master he requested. let s go right to our justice correspondent jessica schneider. the special master is call out the public claim that the fbi planted evidence at mar-a-lago. he is, wolf. now that special master wants trump s teams to back up those out of court claims that the fbi planted evidence at mar-a-lago and he wants it in a sworn declaration by the end of this month. it s an accusation that trump and his allies have repeatedly made and now the special master wants proof plus the special master is saying he may end up calling witnesses at some point to explain what certain documents are if there s a dispute. all of this as the justice department notched a big win in the ongoing court fight over classified documents. the justice department is once again digging into 100 classified documents that fbi agents seized from mar-a-lago. i think they want to
she s done and i am grateful for that. tried to tell us, i ve been shouting from the rooftops, he s a con, he s a fraud. todd: brooke astor has more on all of it. brooke. brooke: the lawsuit from james accuses the former president and his family of financial fraud, which includes lying to his lenders and insurers by overvaluing his properties and claims they inflated his net worth. donald trump engaged in years of illegal conduct, claiming you have money that you do not have does not amount to the art of the deal, it is the art of the steal. carley: president trump says banks have a responsibility to stakeholders to conduct their own valuation before giving to a business and trump believes this is culmination of years of political targeting. she said we re going to get him, she came after us, we have been going through this years, i was under impression she wanted to settle. how do you pay something if you are not guilty, this is continuation of a witch hunt that
stashed at his retirement home in mar-a-lago. a federal appeals court, just before we went to air, just ruled in favor of the justice department. the justice department can have access to roughly 100 highly sensitive classified documents that were taken from mar-a-lago. immediately we saw the appeals court issue this ruling. i was stunned to see it come out so quickly. it s worth taking a step back and recognizing just how extraordinary this moment, this day is. it was almost easy to forget that trump had never actually been indicted. never been sued, you know, by the state entity or anything like that, but today, things look different. that is where we pick things up this morning, on top of the legal setbacks from donald trump comes news from the january 6th committee that the wife of supreme court justice, ginni thomas has agreed to meet with the committee about her efforts to overturn the 2020 election. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it s thursday, joe and m
kevin: the president will speak at the un general asem blee a few hours from now, he has collected what he wants to say and sources say this will be a seminole moment in the short biden presidency. he is expected around 10:35 this morning. these things tend to slide as the day goes along, 10:35, could be closer to 11 or 11:30. we ll be watching. he will participate in meeting with un secretary general and have a bilat with the brand-new prime minister of the united kingdom. beijing considers its response to the president s repeated insistence that if china does invade taiwan, the u.s. will act. would u.s. forces defend the island? yes. to be clear, u.s. forces, u.s. men and women would defend taiwan in event of taiwan invasion? yes. kevin: surprised the reporter and many on the team at the white house. the address is expected to place china and taiwan issues front and center today and no, despite his previous comments to the contrary, no change in u.s. policy, tai
i d scalp. it no i wouldn t i would literally use it because what an extraordinary hearing, i want to return to normalcy to see here a judge say, no. this case, you guys have not been arguing very well. that s a substack s right? it can t be declassified if you re not arguing it s declassified. i just got so many aspects of what transpired are worthy of analysis of discussion, because there was a lot packed in there, and we re getting great indication of where the special master may be heading in all of this. and we re gonna have that discussion because what i would do with that ticket is give it to andrew weissmann, but andrew weissmann doesn t need my help because he was actually there. he used to work in that courthouse. he s gonna be with us leading off tonight, and so we have the guy in the room, the guy i want in the room for the sessions. but there s two tickets, i want the other ticket. i desperately want to be there. thank you. alex you are in good hands lawr