trace: we re getting a new look at the seized documents. some marked secret and top secret. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel has more from the d.c. newsroom. good morning. a 36-page filing from federal prosecutors meeting a federal judge s late night deadline. they argue the motion for a special master in the case fails for multiple independent reasons. in this filing prosecutors write the government also developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. the government also released this photo which contains a number of files with bright yellow or red cover sheets signifying top secret material. they appear spread out over a carpet. the court filing said they were recovered inside a container in the former president s office. prosecutors write three classified documents that were not located in boxes but rather were located in the desk
unique classified documents were seized by federal agents during the search at mar-a-lago. that raises serious questions of possible perjury by trump lawyers or others who signed letters to the fbi that they had turned everything over after a subpoena in june. most remarkably, the justice department lawyers included this extraordinary image. an fbi photo of top secret documents and other classified documents on the carpet of the former president s home office. the government says investigators developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were taken to obstruct the government s investigation. the doj lawyers say the trump request for a special master to review the seizd documents is unnecessary and would, quote, significantly harm the government s national security interests. the sheer volume of documents with classified markings recovered in the search were more than twice the amount that were turned over
douglas how hard it was to get classified documents away from trump when he was in office. plus, the gen z whisper joins us he says the key to pulling off a blue wave, not a red one, is young voters. and speaking of gen z, 25-year-old maxwell alejandro could make history this fall. i ll ask him what his plans are if he is elected to congress from a safe blue seed in florida. good evening, i m mehdi has on. it has become increasingly clear if it wasn t before, that one of the 45 men in american history who have said in the oval office, who descended to the highest office in the land, donald j trump, posed a threat or national security while in office and continues to pose one now, even after office. just think about the enormity of that statement. think about the fact that trump is a former republican president. because in this country, for decades now, democratic presidents and presidential candidates have been often successfully portrayed by the gop as threats to natio
and good morning, everyone. this is andrea mitchell reports in washington following the continuing devastation from historic floods in kentucky. at this time at least 30 people are dead. thousands more are still trapped in their communities. with residents desperate for food, shelter, electricity, and clean drinking water. this morning kentucky governor andy beshear updating reporters on the devastation and search for survivors. i got to talk to some of the families here and the other places too. they don t have anything. i mean the clothes on their back, but happy to be alive and grateful for the folks that are helping out. on capitol hill, senate democrats are hoping to sell their colleague kyrsten sinema on a health care package than casts hundreds of billions into the climate and energy sectors. she has tremendous, tremendous input in these pieces of legislation. this is something everyone has worked on in the last eight months or more, and she basically insisted
maga republicans are destroying the democracy. we the people will not let anyone or anything tear us ap apart. today. asked me about the maga agenda. it is one of the most extreme agendas we have seen. and you are not aware the majority of americans are comic that is extreme. joe biden has a problem. the only way he changes that is flipping the script and talking about maga, ultra maga and trump and everything but joe biden. this is a political play and very obvious what that says they will try to d cramp us down everybody s throat. todd: live in washington, griff jenkins. no shortage of that, todd, a warning outside independence hall in philadelphia. president biden warned the nation for 24 minutes democracy is under assault by predecessor and the millions of americans who voted for him. donald trump and the maga republicans represent extremism that threatens the republic. maga is determined to take the country backward. the political speech was a far cry fro