part of the documents as the 7th court of appeals ruled that the doj investigators could continue to comb through the more than 100 documents determined to be classified, that is putting in here, putting him in a corner, and he is saying that he declassified within his own mind those documents that is a fact that is in a fact and concept that is going beyond the issue at play, and that is that under the statute that the department of justice is using to justify the seizure on august 8th that there is potentially national defense material and not classified, but national defense material of donald trump records that belonged to the government that he did not have the rights to be in the possession of, and now after the 11th circuit s ruling, the department of justice can work with the office of national intelligence to determine to what extent was
for a long time. i think that it should. i actually think the special master would be valuable right now. one of the things a special master could do is just go ahead and sort this material out and return some and to say this stuff is defense material that s legitimate. this stuff is still classified and that stuff is beyond the scope of what was, in my view too broad of a search warrant. bret: we will follow it all. jonathan, thank you. thank you. bret: also breaking tonight, falling consumer prices this july, the comments by the fed chair jerome powell sent markets plummeting and the dow slumped 1,008 points today. the s&p 500 fell 141, the nasdaq lost 498. that makes for a bad week the dow was down 4.25. the s&p 504. the nasdaq was off he will nearly half. the federal reserve chairman stark message it did today about inflation and interest rates to
yeah, you know, i probably have been to ukraine as many or more times than any other member of the senate. and listen, we are all absolutely blown away by the capacity, the heroism of the ukrainian people, and their armed forces, but you are right, we are entering a really critical moment in this war. ukraine has the opportunity to go on the offense in eastern ukraine to deliver a pretty crippling blow to russia. russia is certainly looking at the end of this year, knowing that they are soon going to run out of money to continue to fight this war, they are going to start running out of defense material, as are defense import sanctions start to take hold, and the next few weeks are critical. because as russia s objectives start to become more limited, we have the opportunity to push them back on their heels even as they seek to control only a
they support the ukrainian cause in tangible terms, weapons, defense material. they re trying to thread the need so they don t do anything that winds up getting the u.s. into the conflict militarily. and the symbolism is in play here too and that s why the president is heading to brussels next week. the irish prime minister is here in washington for st. patrick s day. joe biden has said it is perhaps his favorite day of the year, but the schedule has been thrown into upheaval, potentially so. last night word came out that the prime minister tested positive for covid. he was at an event in d.c. to celebrate st. patrick s day, the president was there too. the two men had interaction although the white house said it didn t consider it close contact. tell what it means not just in terms of the st. patrick s celebration but in terms of the