personal and nasty. accusations of being senile and gullible. up next up front. good evening everyone, i m kate baldwin in for erin burnett. up, tonight trump under pressure. former judge pressing the former president for more answers tonight. giving trump s legal team a deadline to explain his request for a special master to leave a review of the evidence that the fbi took from mar-a-lago last month. the judge, who was nominated to the bench by trump in 2020, is also questioning why trump s believe that trump has jurisdiction to even get involved in this case. this comes as we are learning new details tonight about how many sensitive documents trump was storing at mar-a-lago. in this lead of the national archives released today, the agency told trump s legal team it had discovered more than 700 pages of classified documents, in 15 boxes back in january. when the archives first visit mar-a-lago. those boxes, by the way, do not include with the fbi took from trump s home thi
thought is, this case should not end up in trial where the risk is a life sentence but work something out with the prosecutor once you ve crossed your ts and dotted your is. mark o mara, mary ellen and john, thank you. a special edition of 360. forensic scientists will join us and elie honig for a close look at the aspect of this case coming up at 9:00 p.m. eastern. the white house s new strategy for getting ahead of the clarssified documents story and the president s attempt to minimizing his own problems. caitlin collins and maggie haberman join me for that. the george santos story, santos prompted to raise money for his dog for lifesaving surgery but then ran off with the money.
the former president s fill of mar-a-lago, and you may remember much of the rest of that story. so, it was the raid, the search, the lawful authorized attempt to get the documents back. you can call it any number of things, that got so much attention, and again, that s been litigated in the courts. we ve covered that story. no one has found evidence that was not a lawful here, they didn t have any debate, but the questions still remain how did the documents get there? were any laws potentially broke? i bet you know this, anything involving classified do you means and a former president is a pretty significant story, and this new story, we will stay on it for you. i told you that biden is in mexico city. i can only tell you what s happening as it happens so if you feel like i m repeating myself, trust me, this is the
whether they are sensitive, truly sensitive, and if so, how sensitive. yeah. so there are a lot of questions he didn t answer, but he did answer some. and as you said, it s the first time he s addressed this question. molly, we re running a lilt over on time with a guest standing by because we have been juggling, but to you with about 40 seconds, your view of the president s effort to address this? do you think the answer he gave for now holds, or does it raise more questions? i think as gene was just saying, there s a lot of facts we still don t know, and that s going to determine the shape of this story. he clearly wanted to send a message of openness and transparency and also putting distance between himself and this matter, saying his lawyers told him he probably shouldn t know what the documents are, so he didn t ask. so we ll see going forward whether this holds up or becomes a bigger issue. yeah. appreciate you on more than one story. if you re just joining us on