classified documents at mar-a-lago were likely concealed or hidden. arguing the former president was simply holding on to his own presidential records. in just a few hours, a judge is set to hear arguments on a request for a special master to review the seized documents. also ahead, president biden is set to deliver a major prime time address tonight on the the battle for the soul of america. we ll get a live preview from the white house coming up. and, the latest on the ongoing water emergency in mississippi. we will speak with the mayor of jackson on the crisis that has now triggered a political blame game. but the bottom line, willie, is people there don t have clean water. that is right. and they haven t for sometime. we ll talk to the mayor in just a moment. but let s begin this hour with former president donald trump s legal team and its response to the department of justice latest filing on the classified documents seized during the fbi search of mar-a-lago. in the 1
,i personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. second, the department does not take such a decision lightly where possible. it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken took them long enough to say something without taking any questions. and he was about an hour late. garland s mission was not a surprise. after all, this is the man who spearheading the most wide ranging investigation into department history with the january six probe. i don t know if you ve noticed this the same merrick garland who used the department of justice and the fbi to target parents as the terrorist, which we know they are for exercising their right to free speech. a school board meetings, which we televise a lot of it and play it back even more of it. and while merrick garland has done nothing to even attempt to reduce skyrocketing violent crime, which is all around us in major cit
like him after all to be fair he wasn t really a prosecutor better defense attorney masquerading as a prosecutor placing interest of defendants above everything else that is what is called is never the defendant s fault it s law enforcement or schools or society that is what the movement is to shift responsibility for crime away from the defendant and onto literally everyone else. i am not surprised he was recalled but i am surprised he was elected in the first place. what in the people of san francisco think they were getting? doing the opposite of why he said he did exactly what he said he would do he was soft on crime and hard on the police. he did not change. but the voters did. make you wonder how many people were victimized in the process and how many other cities will make the same mistake and how many lives that will cost? joining us now right on time director first of all happy birthday i actually think that our system can be improved. and the former prosecutors thin
Too, when you dont get the answer you want, you reask the same question. Youre more amazing, and stalling, racking your brain, wait a minute, i had this down as a yes and now hes giving me an i dont know. You ask the same question again, if nothing else, you bought yourself eight seconds to figure out where youre going to go next. You can see that in the transcript, when he asks the same question again, he was surprised with the answer Michael Cohen gave him. You cant write your questions in stone because youre dealing with someone who on every question is trying to throw it back in your face. You have to be able to do improv. I want to say thank you so much for joining us this morning. Its the top of the hour, and give a quick reset for viewers who may be joining us now. Michael cohen back on the stand. Day three of crossexamination. He has been testifying before jurors for about an hour and a half this morning and todd blanche asking questions that ultimately go to his credibility an
Going on now. Former president Donald Trumps New York Criminal Trial we have covered. At this moment Michael Cohen is back on the stand. Another day of the defenses cross examination. Cohen is the prosecutions star witness and weve learned he will be their final one. I mean, what would you say after whatever it is you would call what he has done on that stand . Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. Team trump is laser focused on shredding cohens credibility. Shouldnt be too hard. He is a convicted liar and he has been profiting off of the former president s legal journey now. On tuesday Michael Cohen even admitted he wants to see trump convicted. A former Legal Advisor to cohen shredded his testimony and his character actually for the defense. He did their job for them. Robert costello, who also worked in new yorks Southern District said cohen insisted to him that donald trump knew absolutely nothing about the payments he was making to Stormy Daniels in return for stayi