plus, day three without water in jackson, mississippi. and the situation is so bad, the hospital does not have air conditioning. but one part of a temporary fix has arrived. welcome to the lead. i m cakasie hunt in for jake tapper. donald trump s legal team is on the clock. they have under four hours to submit their response to a scathing court filing from the department of justice which accused the former president of pushing a, quote, incomplete and inaccurate narrative about the fbi raid at mar-a-lago. the d orc j went on to make an even more damning assertion that it has proof that documents were moved from a storage room at the florida resort and possibly hidden in an effort to obstruct the fbi s investigation. the doj also filing included a signed letter from a trump lawyer swearing no classified documents were left at the former pred s home. that we now know was a lie. given that fbi teams seized more than 100 documents from mar-a-lago during the august search. c
trace: we re getting a new look at the seized documents. some marked secret and top secret. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel has more from the d.c. newsroom. good morning. a 36-page filing from federal prosecutors meeting a federal judge s late night deadline. they argue the motion for a special master in the case fails for multiple independent reasons. in this filing prosecutors write the government also developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. the government also released this photo which contains a number of files with bright yellow or red cover sheets signifying top secret material. they appear spread out over a carpet. the court filing said they were recovered inside a container in the former president s office. prosecutors write three classified documents that were not located in boxes but rather were located in the desk
how is that? alex hogan on the growing threat from the nuclear power plant that has nuclear inspectors rushing to the scene. what have they discovered? further, what have they done? welcome. i m neil cavuto. so glad to have you. a lot to get to. first, let s go to edward lawrence at the white house with how they re responding to all of these developments. edward? vladimir putin has 700 billion more in his pocket because of the sale of oil to other countries around the worlds. russia is making 40% more revenue from oil than a year ago. russia raked in 20.4 billion largely because of a 55% increase in exports of oil to china, but also india. you ve seen an even more dramatic increase in india. india was hardly importing anything from russia when it comes to oil and in the course of the last four or five months, we ve seen that increase from basically zero to 8 or 900,000 barrels a day. it s again, that interest of these countries to find affordable energy and russia is a wi
materials were likely concealed and removed from mar-a-lago as part of an effort to obstruct the federal investigation. correspondent david spunt starts us out tonight. is he in palm beach, florida. good evening, david. john, good evening to you. on the eve of a federal court hearing, where president donald trump, former president donald trump s legal team will appear before a judge to ask for a special master to go over documents seized from mar-a-lago earlier this month, the justice department is laying out a new timeline with brand new details. federal investigators focusing on potential obstruction of justice over the handling of classified material taken during a day long search of former president trump s florida estate. in this court filing, the justice department says, quote: government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. this after the trump team was served a
what the hell is the matter with us? i m not joking. think about it. what are we doing? president joe biden gives a fiery and impassioned speech in pennsylvania, vowing to ban assault-style weapons while calling out republicans for criticism of fbi following the search of mar-a-lago. we ll have much more of the president s remarks just ahead. meanwhile, there are several new developments in the justice department s investigation into the former president, including this picture from the doj, showing some of the documents seized. we ll walk you through everything that s happened overnight. also ahead, qanon and dangerous conspiracy theories. that s how donald trump spent his time yesterday on his fledgling social media platform. we ll explain how it is part of a growing trend for the former president. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 31st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we ll begin with that breaking news overnigh