tonight on why he s been calling for all court papers to be made public but not doing so in the place that it matters most, the courtroom. clarissa ward is in afghanistan and her harrowing return to a place deeply affected by the war and what she found when she got there one year after american troops departed. we begin with the search at mar-a-lago and the fight against unce unsealing documents. jessica, walk us through what the judge ordered today. anderson, the judge telling doj to go back to the drawing board and find a way to release some of this information from the affidavit. the judge is telling prosecutors two things. propose redactions but also better explain why they need to keep large sections of this secret. so the judge has set a deadline. he wants their recommendations next thursday at noon. after that point the judge says he might have additional confidential discussions with doj before he makes that final decision about what to release. parts of it are li
he liked showing off these kim jong-un letters when he was president. people would come to the office, reporters, visiting dignitaries, you name it, and he would wave them around. some of those were among the items that were at mar-a-lago so that s one possibility. we know that he was telling advisers when he was resisting giving these things back, they re mine, it s mine and so forth so that s one possibility. the other is that he sees one other is that he sees some advantage and whether that is something that makes him seem agrand diesed or bigger or whether he could see it as leverage of some kind, you have to consider that ponssibility. there s a lot we still don t know. but trump throughout his presidency acted as if there was no difference between himself and the government and his company. it was all one big brand. we ve talked about this before. when i went to his apartment to interview him long ago, i was obsessed, he had this fake
know he s a narcissist. he creates these alternate realities for himself. he will say something that is false repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly until i think not only is he lying to his audience, to a certain extent he lies to himself in order to get things over on the people around him and also to insulate himself from any sense of responsibility or guilt for the damage he causes when he misrepresents things. you know, the interesting thing is that he is a fab ulist. he is living an incredibly luxurious lifestyle, but when you scratch away the gold paint it turns out to be paint, right? right. you tell the story, you did it recently, about this fake renoir painting. when i was at the new york times i was working on a biography of trump nation. i spent a lot of time with the president for that. at one point we were on his jet