hours trump has suffered a legal setback in a different case. the one regarding the materials seized from his florida beach club. an appeals court has ruled that the justice department can have access to roughly 100 highly simplified classified documents that were taken from mar-a-lago. trump has been arguing that all the documents seized from his club or his personal property, and that if the fbi found anything classified in there, well, trump magically declassified it when he was president even though he has no record of ever having done that. trump got a lower court judge aileen cannon who he appointed to agree that a special master should go through all the documents. and in a ruling that was widely ridiculed, kenneth said while the special master s going through all of those documents, the justice department is not allowed to look at the classified documents, or to use them in a criminal investigation into trump having the documents at his beach club in the first place.
sat down with my friend rashid johnson, we went through his process. we re talking about how he is helping artists who are underrepresented in the fine arts world, people who are overlooked, how we help them gain a voice. but he s also one of the most successful artists of our time. and he s living in his success, unlike people, artists who have to wait until they die. you know what i m saying, to be appreciated. i can t wait to see it. sarah, i ll see you. have a good evening. this is don lemon tonight. there is lots happening. all the investigations swirling around the former president. a special master basically telling team trump, put up or shut up. he is not buying, maybe he did, it maybe he didn t over de classification. the judge, his name is raymond dearie, calling trump s bluff. saying that his lawyers have not given any proof that the documents were declassified. and seeing if they do not make that case, he s going to determine that they are classified. this may
so i asked nick akerman in the last hour have trump boxed himself in by making that claim, or least his representatives speaking on television. look you can t have your cake and eat it. that s how the special master responded to teen trump harry. his excuse for not handing over that evidence. this is candidate trump s lawyers, that s what they put forward, so how do you think that is sitting with the former president? you know, the former president has wanted to say this in the public sphere. he hasn t wanted to say it in court where you make a false statement, that s a separate crime. i think he is as always completely brazen and indifferent about saying any old thing when he s talking on the hustings, but not in court. look, the courts overall have done a pretty good job all the way through. it takes a while to get to them, they re not perfect but most of the time you really gotta come with the goods or lose. and that s what happened today. a conservative reagan appoint
himself in by making that claim, or least his representatives speaking on television. look you can t have your cake and eat it. that s how the special master responded to teen trump harry. his excuse for not handing over that evidence. this is candidate trump s lawyers, that s what they put forward, so how do you think that is sitting with the former president? you know, the former president has wanted to say this in the public sphere. he hasn t wanted to say it in court where you make a false statement, that s a separate crime. i think he is as always completely brazen and indifferent about saying any old thing when he s talking on the hustings, but not in court. look, the courts overall have done a pretty good job all the way through. it takes a while to get to them, they re not perfect but most of the time you really gotta come with the goods or lose. and that s what happened today. a conservative reagan appointee but a solid judge just said, i m a judge, one side has ev
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. today the attorney general accused donald trump, his family and organization of a pattern of fraud and deception that was, her word, astounding. letitia james is suing the former president for $250 million, alleging fraud that spanned years before he entered the white house. also named in the suit, three of trump s adult children and two executives of the trump organization. they re all accused of inflating or deflating assets for their gain. over the course of our investigation we found that mr. trump, his children, the trump organization, created and used more than 200 false and misleading asset valuations on a statement of financial condition over that ten-year period. here s just one case cited in the 200 plus page lawsuit. ag james said trump claimed his florida estate was worth $739 million, when it was only worth $75 million. now she is not only demanding a quarter billion doll