Court. His team is making highstakes arguments trying to get the documents case thrown out. The change in the plans for the judge and what clues it may give us. The highest ranking official in the senate, Chuck Schumer calling for elections in israel to replace the Prime Minister. What it could mean for u. S. Israeli Relations and the war in gaza. And a small city in oklahoma elected a White Nationalist into office. Now, it faces the question of whether it will be able to vote him out. This hour well take you inside that recall effort. We start in a florida courtroom, where judge Aileen Cannon has heard arguments to get the case dismissed. They cited no precedent for a former president. The Special Counsels response, quote theres never been a situation remotely close to this one. A second motion will be argued today, that the president has virtually unreviewable authority to designate president atrecords as personal, and stash them in unlocked rooms at maralago. I took them very legall
documents with classified markings than the diligent search did. donald trump said they were in one storage room and the fbi said it wasn t and they shared this picture of documents into trump s office. they say the trump team delayed at nearly every stage and at one point stop d.o.j. from personally inspecting boxes in the storage room. team trump said the former president declassified the document and the government says there s no proof he did and the actions of his lawyers show they still believed the documents were still classified. team trump said he asserted privilege. he never asserted it until now and he doesn t have it anyway. team trump says the records were his. the government says no, classified or declassified, they belong to the government. team trump said the government inappropriately swept up personal items like his passport. the fbi said no, they were allowed to pick up anything commingling. the governor has already filtered through all of it anyway and if
senate. mitch mcconnell worries aloud that it may block his return to the senate majority. and democrats say thousands of new irs agents will replace retir rees and improve customer service. up first for us, though, a new deadline and legal siren for the former president donald trump. federal prosecutors now have until next week to tell a judge what portions of the affidavit should stay secret. the judge disagreeing with the justice department say they are pieces of that document that could be made public without harming the case. they argued the probably cause for that warrant application. we learned the affidavit relies on substantial grand jury information and prosecutors say a full and public release of the document would lay out all to see the road map for the justice department s case, including next critical steps. we also got a glimpse of a new document with new allegations against the former president quoting willful retention of national information, language that p
potential future case, plus put investigators in jeopardy or expose potential witnesses to pressure. there s also the long standing practice at the justice department to not say anything about pending cases, especially ones as politically sensitive as this. that said, as the judge in the case recognized, there s public interest involved here. cnn s jessica schneider starts us off. do we know why exactly the judge decided to release this? we don t know for sure, anderson, but it s possible that the doj may have given a little more than they originally thought they could. the judge moved really swiftly today. it was less than four hours after he received prosecutors proposed redactions that he ruled that what they proposed would in fact be sufficient and should be released to the public by noon tomorrow. the reason it s interesting that this judge came to such a quick conclusion is that when doj argued in court last week, they said that any redactions could be so extensive t
under executive privilege. meanwhile house democrats are also issuing demands. the chairs of the house intelligence and oversight committees saying they want a full intelligence damage assessment after classified documents were seized from mar-a-lago. take a listen. some of those documents were marked top secret, that s the highest that could be done if it s disclosed so the fact that they were in an unsecure place with a padlock or whatever security at a hotel is deeply alarming and i have asked for along with chairman maloney a damage assessment by the intelligence community and a briefing to congress. the fbi seized 11 sets of documents marked classified from the mar-a-lago resort including 1 marked as top secret sci. this is coming as sources say that the doj received assurances from a trump attorney in june that the former president was in not possession of classified materials. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is with me now. we have members of congress d