search of mar-a-lago. prosecutors made the case for secrecy because evidence might be destroyed, they said, but the judge set in motion the possibility of releasing a redacted version of the affidavit as soon as next week. ludicrous, ridiculous, bs, those words coming from former trump senior officials who dispute the former president s claim that he had, quote, a standing order to declassify documents that he took from the white house. cnn reached out to 18 former top trump administration officials and all of them told us they never heard any such order issued during their time working for donald trump. we re going to have much more on that in just a moment. joining us now is former senior counsel to ken starr, former deputy assistant secretary for policy at the department of homeland security, paul rosen swig. i want to talk about the document released yesterday by judge reinhart which outlines some of the reasons why the fbi wanted to search donald trump s home and one o
political landscape. a landscape in which the former president has developed a cold like following that was willing to storm the u.s. capitol in order to demonstrate its loyalty. one in which a major political party, the gop, is still reluctant to condemn that following it despite the clear risk it poses to our democracy. there have been few times that a president or presidential candidate has been bold enough to outright condemn a segment of the electorate. obama in 2008 call that some republican working class voters for voting against their own self interests and it s the clinging to quote guns and religion, and of course that was a private event. still, those comments, as you may recall, prompted immediate backlash. hillary clinton in 2016 said half of trump s followers belonged in a quote basket of the portals. her comments were really against her for the rest of her presidential campaign. and now, joe biden 2022 says trump and his supporters of maga republicans threaten
jackson, mississippi exposing years of negligence and misplaced priorities by the states republican governor. mississippi state senator salim norwood weighs in. and we will go live to the kennedy space station in florida where nasa is once again getting ready to launch its artemis 1 mission around the moon. all of that and more is coming up. and a happy labor day weekend to, you and katie fang. over the last 24 hours, we have learned several new pieces of information about donald trump and the classified documents found at mar-a-lago. one of them trump might as well have been featured on an episode of hoarders. according to newly released documents from the doj, the fbi found more than 10,000 government documents and photographs. those are just the ones with our classification markings. that s just the beginning. we will get into that in just a moment. i just how bad things look for trump right now? listen to what is former attorney general bill barr and one time ally is sa
where these mainstream republicans, and can they get organized to help the president from the other side. through this minister bravest of these team normal republicans joined me later in the show with those answers and more. velshi starts now. good morning, essentially some of the, third happy labor day weekend, i m ali velshi, and this morning we are left with more questions than answers just today after a federal judge until they highly detailed inventory after items that were seized from mar-a-lago early next month. the court filing revealed that the fbi found folders with classified markings on them inside the former president s office in storage area inside the 40 golf club. government feels also wondering if the u.s. government has actually recovered the full scope of important documents from donald trump, and whether many of them remain missing posing a further threat to national security. all of this as we await a decision from a judge as to whether she will requ
restrictive documents had been mixed in with ordinary things. magazines, gifts, and clothing. for the first time, the department of justice revealed that more than 11,000 unclassified government-owned papers and photographs were also seized. mr. trump spokesman responded, this unprecedented and unnecessary raid was not some surgical, confined search and retrieval. but a smash and grab. however, today, former trump attorney general william r. defended the doj s actions. people say this was unprecedented. it s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put it in a country club! donald trump s actions contributed to the dire warnings from president biden last night in philadelphia. about dangers to democracy. maga republicans do not respect the constitution. republicans rejected that as an unfair, broad attack on trump voters. they do want to make america great again. they just don t agree with president biden s neo-socialist, woke a