issue for all families. the governor and mayor pointing finishes about who is at fault, but a lot of residents want to know when will it get fixed. mikhail gorbachev is credited with bringing down the iron curtain and bringing together unity in europe. after 12 years under putin, gorbachev was in charge. he wasn t alone. welcome, it is wednesday, august 31, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and palm beach where donald trump s legal team has until tonight to respond to some explosive new allegations from the justice department. federal prosecutors claim government documents were likely concealed and removed from storage at mar-a-lago s resort as part of an effort to obstruct their investigation. the justice department was responding to trump s request for a special master to review materials seized from mar-a-lago. the department also says the former president lacks legal standing to intervene in its investigation since the documents belong to the gover
answer is not defund the police, it is fund the police. fund the police. reporter: he has visited the pivotal battleground state 14 times since taking office and will be there two more times in the next week as former president trump is also scheduled to hold a rally of his own on saturday. pennsylvania is close and dear to his heart. reporter: president biden will return to pennsylvania for the second time this week on thursday for what officials are saying is going to be a speech with that theme of his campaign, this battle for the democracy and soul of the nation as they say it is very much still the maga republicans that the president is forcefully critical of, that as the white house officials are trying to keep their distance from the investigations into trump and the materials he took from office. kaitlan collins, cnn, the white house. president biden getting in touch with his law and order message could be a key political
classified markings. they also included a photo that showed the cover sheets, the classification, sort of a sample of what they found. and in this filing, they also set said that there were documents likely concealed and removed from mar-a-lago from a storage room there in an attempt to obstruct the investigation. this court fight is going to continue. donald trump s side has until wednesday evening to respond. and there is going to be a hearing on this matter on thursday. sara murray, cnn, washington. the court filing also contends trump and his legal team have been pushing an incomplete and inaccurate narrative about the fbi search. it says the number of documents recovered in august cast serious doubt on the claim by trump s lawyer that all classified material had been turned over. and evan perez has more. reporter: the photograph that we keep showing is these are documents that were recovered from according to this document today, it says the justice department says that it c
inappropriately raided the house, it is that i didn t even bother to look at the stuff to determine what was a dinner invitation, what was attorney/client privilege, and what was top secret code. he s almost saying i didn t care what was top secret and i didn t care to separate it out and store it properly. and here is what a former u.s. attorney had to say about trump s request for a special master. the danger of his motion and her odd kind of indication, maybe i ll grant a special master, is that it would upend and put back on the footing that trump has been seeking the whole time of executive privilege. and the doj just slices through that legally and factually. legally it says, look, they are not his, he can t even bring a lawsuit. he has no interest in these, they don t belong to him at all. if and when he is charged, he can make any claim he wants to,
top stories. donald trump has until tonight to answer a damning court filing from the u.s. justice department opposing his please of a special master. the filing says that trump lacks legal standing to intervene in the probe and in total more than 320 classified documents have been recovered from mar-a-lago since january and much more of course ahead on this developing story on early start. meantime u.s. president biden defended the fbi and condemned maga republicans during a fiery speech in the spring state of pennsylvania ramping up his political message ahead of the november midterms. kaitlan collins has more from washington. reporter: president biden forcefully condemning attacks on law enforcement agencies after the fbi search of mar-a-lago. there is no place in this country, no place, for an endangering the lives of law enforcement.