rejecting a special master. a filing that included this, a striking photo of highly classified documents found at mar-a-lago. among trump s arguments, an admission that there were classified documents there. but that was to be expected among presidential records. no big deal. and should not have triggered an fbi search. joining us now, legal analyst loni coombs. so nice to see you. thanks for getting up our staying up late for us. so lawyers for the former president, they are,ing that it is the justice department that is unchecked and that these highly classified documents stashed away at the president s resort are no big deal? yeah, this is a really interesting reply brief. it was supposed to be a reply to all of the very strong arguments that were made by the department of justice in their response to this request for a special master. but instead it really read more like a pr statement, you know, going after the fbi and the doj as usual saying that they are unchecked and
every minute of the russian military staying at the nuclear plant is a risk of global radiation disaster. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is friday, august 26, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 in washington where the u.s. justice department has about eight hours to release the redacted affidavit. they typically contain crucial information about why investigators want to search the property and what potential crimes that they are looking for. judge reinhart agreed with the justice department that certain portions of the document should remain sealed. quote, disclosure would reveal number one the identities of the witnesses, law enforcement agents and uncharged parties. number two, the investigation strategy direction, scope, sources and methods, and three, grand jury information. this comes as we are learning that there is growing concern inside trump s inner circle that his legal team is less than qualified. sources tell cnn the former president
call, it does send a signal that democrats are very galvanized behind that. and we can t wait until the 11th hour before the general election to get out the vote. so, i know of social conservative organizations that are getting bus tours ready, get out the vote efforts, volunteer groups to galvanize the pro-life community to get them out to vote. early on in the general election process. but this was certainly an opportunity for us to realize that democrats are just as motivated about this as we have been on supreme court justices for the past decade. so, both sides are really looking at that is an opportunity to buckle up and get out the vote. let me bring someone else in the conversation, cnn political commentator paul welcome to the conversation. harry enten you know, data as i call him, cnn numbers crunchers, he s an he crunch these numbers for us. he said democrats have now outperformed biden in 2020 and each of the four house special elections since roe was overturn
political commentators alice stewart and political analyst alex burns. he is the co-author of the book, this will not pass. trump, biden and the battle for america s future. good evening, one and all. thank you so much for joining. alex, we re gonna start with you. we need a reality check on the midterms, everybody s been anticipating a red wave, but that seems to have shifted significantly in the past month. what are you expecting now? don, i think there s no question that the circumstances of this campaign have changed substantially since the start of the summer. and it really does help to take a step back and look at the big picture here. the president s party almost always does terribly in the midterm elections, and democrats are probably going to have a pretty rough november. but when you think back to where we were at the beginning of june, with sky high gas prices, the biden agenda dead in the water, or so it seemed, and the republican party facing different kinds of
we re live with the latest. a deadly strike on a train station. we will have a report on the escalation and fighting as ukraine marks its independence day. we will have more on those stories in just a moment. we begin this hour with more evidence of just how long the national archives pleaded with donald trump s legal team to get documents from the former president. about 100 days after he left office, the archives realized documents were missing and asked for them to be returned. even the white house counsel agreed cnn has confirmed reporting by the washington post on the story. it comes as the department of justice is finalizing its reductions to the highly sensitive affidavit that was used to justify this month starts. those reductions are due today. our reporter has more. present joe biden forcefully declaring he had no knowledge of the search before it happened. i do not have any advance notice. the allies have been insisting that he was somehow behind the unprec