every minute of the russian military staying at the nuclear plant is a risk of global radiation disaster. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is friday, august 26, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 in washington where the u.s. justice department has about eight hours to release the redacted affidavit. they typically contain crucial information about why investigators want to search the property and what potential crimes that they are looking for. judge reinhart agreed with the justice department that certain portions of the document should remain sealed. quote, disclosure would reveal number one the identities of the witnesses, law enforcement agents and uncharged parties. number two, the investigation strategy direction, scope, sources and methods, and three, grand jury information. this comes as we are learning that there is growing concern inside trump s inner circle that his legal team is less than qualified. sources tell cnn the former president
attorney here where this battle could go and andrew mccarthy on why he says the former president should be worried. welcome. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it. what we know about it. david in west palm beach with more. david? neil, good afternoon. judge cannon announced that she would issue an order in due course. due course in a high stakes case like this could be truly any hour or any day now. we re in unchartered waters here. we ve never seen anything like this before. the judge has a lot to decide here. we ve talked about this term special master a lot over the past few weeks since the federal government went in to mar-a-largo on august 8. a special master simply is a neutral third party arbiter, somebody that comes in, takes a look at the evidence and they may find that some evidence is out of the scope of the investigation and may order to return that evidence with the approval of a judge to donald trump who owns the property at mar-a-largo. so judge cannon today hea
not on the cover of time magazine in march of 2009 but he had been hanging fake magazine covers in his golf clubs to make it look likeve he was. just to be clear here, trump wanted so badly to be on the cover of time magazine that he invented a fake time cover all about himself and hung it up in public, in multiple places all over the country. that forgotten little detail from trump s presidency became relevant again today after the department of justice issued its latestrt court filing in the ongoing courtil battle over accs to the fbi search at mar-a-lago. the filing included this shocking picture, showing some of theow top secret and classifd documents the fbi found during thatdo search. documents clearly labeled top secret, and sci, or sensitive compartmented information and none bear markings that they are declassified which is a t typic part of the declassification process. those documents are also sitting alongside what appears to be drum roll, please, a box with the f
would get. the former president called this release today a total public relations subterfuge. the doj says that premature disclosure of more of this information could have a negative impact on their continuing investigation. here s president biden asked about this investigation, which he s been careful to keep at an arm s length publicly moments ago. the president said he declassified these documents. did he declassify them? i ve declassified everything in the world. i can do it all. come on. i m not going to comment. i ll let the justice department take it up. that a short time from the president. bret baier is standing by. first to david spunt, our reporter covering this live at the justice department. good afternoon. good to see you again, david. what is the latest? interesting document. 38 pages. here s page 30 and 31, which you can see. you can consume some information. then there s page 15 and 16. so it just depends on which page you look at. there is some new
we re live with the latest. a deadly strike on a train station. we will have a report on the escalation and fighting as ukraine marks its independence day. we will have more on those stories in just a moment. we begin this hour with more evidence of just how long the national archives pleaded with donald trump s legal team to get documents from the former president. about 100 days after he left office, the archives realized documents were missing and asked for them to be returned. even the white house counsel agreed cnn has confirmed reporting by the washington post on the story. it comes as the department of justice is finalizing its reductions to the highly sensitive affidavit that was used to justify this month starts. those reductions are due today. our reporter has more. present joe biden forcefully declaring he had no knowledge of the search before it happened. i do not have any advance notice. the allies have been insisting that he was somehow behind the unprec