allowed the doj to continue its probe into the handling of classified material while the special master reviewed thousands of other documents. judge cannon also ruled that trump did not have to officially declare in court whether fbi agents planted items at mar-a-lago, something trump and his al plies have repeatedly said in public. the special master had requested trump prove hiss claims, but cannon stepped in and stopped it. judge cannon has not responded to cnn s request for comment on her decisions, but when asked in 2020 during her confirmation if she had any discussions about royalty to president trump, she unequivocally wrote no. do you think she has any bias toward trump? i don t think she has any bias at all. reporter: jason mendra worked with cannon a decade ago. we never talked about politics or judicial philosophy because it wasn t relevant to what we were doing. i still don t know anything about her politics today. reporter: she wasn t overtly political? no.
candidate for office, he can t sit for trial. well, he ll still be donald trump whether he is a candidate for office or not. he is one of the most famous people on the planet. the idea that you couldn t find a fair jury seriously because it s donald trump who is running for president is nonsense. the idea that it s a more complicated case than any other is also sort of silly. it s a relatively straight forward classified documents case. it just happens to have a famous defendant. and the justice department really unpacks a lot of those arguments quite well and really sort of dismisses a lot of the points that trump makes. the simple fact, and i think the hardest thing for the justice department to overcome here is the fact that it is classified documents. your going to have to litigate how you get them into court, and that s going to take several months and may take longer than this december. i want to bring in tim parlatore, a member of the former president s legal team and the foun
circle including his white house counsel, acting chief of staff, pence and others, including former communications director alyssa farah griffin. you ll recall she and cassidy hutchinson told the january 6th committee that trump acknowledged losing the election. this latest reporting suggests that jack smith was trying to bolster that notion with more testimony. also breaking, the special counsel s court filing in the documents case, a point by point rebuttal to the defense s case for delaying the trial until after the election. so there is lots to talk about. cnn s kaitlan collins, alyssa farah griffin, and cnn legal analyst elliot williams. so what have you learned, kaitlan, about the members of the inner circle of trump? it s notable who is gone, which is obviously jared kushner and hope hicks, probably two of the closest people to donald trump during his time in the white house, and certainly during this time period. we know that they both went and testified before the grand ju
and finally tonight, $1.2 billion. that is how much former president trump says he has made since leaving the white house. that s according to his revised financial disclosure form, the most recent one. so where did the $1.2 billion come from? according to the filing, it lays out that trump made about $65 million in revenue from mar-a-lago, $2.5 million for offering up his life commentary of one single boxing match on the single anniversary of 9/11. more than a million dollars for going on tour with bill o reilly. at least $2 million for events hosted by she and her husband founded the controversial unification church, a church widely described as a cult. and that is just a drop in the bucket compared to the 1 funny $2 billion in total. thanks for joining us. ac 360 starts right now. tonight on 360, breaking news in both special counsel probes. we now know more about who in the president s inner circle has
whether it s time to get the security clearances or asking for this indefinite trial date. but they re also making this argument, trump s team is that they can t get a fair jury before the 2024 election. do you really believe that? you know, i don t think that this motion is the best time to raise that. that s something that they would really have to get a lot more evidence of to properly brief under the appropriate rules. and as you guys said earlier, this is donald trump. whether he is a candidate or a post candidate, it is a very difficult divisive subject. so i think that they are going to have massive difficulties picking a jury in this. they should get a pool that s much larger than normal, and you re going to lose most of them right off the bat. but i think that s kind of premature to be raising at this