of messages and depositions from fox news hosts, senior executives and employees as part of a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit. these documents show the depth of the contempt many at fox news had for the truth and frankly for their own viewers. prime time host laura ingraham blasted the fox news decision desk for something that every other normal reputable news organization in the country values, for being accurate. from the new york times, quote, ms. ingraham said the work of the decision desk was an inside job intended to sabotage conservative hosts like her, quote, we are all officially working for an organization that hates us she fumed. the messages show that host sean hannity responded to that, quote, why would anyone defend that call, referring to the decision desk s highly accurate and early election night projection that president joe biden would go on to win arizona. no, sean and laura were not alone. from the washington post reporting on these new filings, quote
a source saying after one instance in which justice department officials were in contact with mr. trump s team, boxes were moved in and out of the room. we re also monitoring the former president s evolving response to this search. he now says the documents taken fall under attorney client privilege and that he wants them back immediately. let s begin with cnn senior crime and justice reporter kaitlin. a lot of developments and things that moved quickly since last monday. tell us what the latest is in this investigation. jim and bianna, one of the most important things we ve learned since we saw the search warrant, in june we have more of what happened that led up to this. in june a lawyer for former president donald trump did attest in writing to the justice department that there would be no more classified documents that could be found at mar-a-lago. at that time, the justice department was subpoenaing everything they had trying to get it back. still, the justice depart
heads of the intelligence agencies just told senator cotton. you know, ben, it s the resistance to the facts that i think is the ominous thing in this story. the facts speak for themselves as shane just said. they are the facts produced by the branch in which mr. cotton serves as well as the branch in which he s questioning. it is the pressing against the facts and the resistance to the facts of where the threats lie that i think are really alarming and especially as you hear these things come out of, you know, in tom cotton s case, people who have the ears and the attention and the respect of a lot of other republicans. yeah, and i mean, what s really important here as you say, nicolle, this is not like an assertion of an opinion. this isn t like an analytical forecast that this is a building problem. that s how it s framed on the right, that people on the left are trying to label them as
something that was just exacerbated by the pandemic. there is also these political discussions around what can be taught and how and a lot of teachers feel micro managed now by school boards and it will be interesting to see if that, you know, pushes people from the profession. but it s been a building problem this idea that there aren t enough qualified people that want to go into teaching in the future. just quickly, are there incentives schools are offering? you re seeing schools get really creative with signing bonuses, thousands of dollars supplementing retirements and the other interesting thing you ll see is teachers bringing in veterans in florida they re trying to bring in veterans that have no teach experience to go into schools. so they re doing all sorts of different things. yeah, one of my favorite teachers was asked to come back from retirement given the shortage of teachers in the d