attempts to overturn the 2020 election. it s the most aggressive step, perhaps, taken by donald trump to assert executive and attorney-client privileges to keep witnesses from cooperating with that investigation. how this fight is resolved could determine whether the firewall around donald trump falls, opening the flood gates about what aides and lawyers were telling him on and around january 6 and what decisions he was making. this comes as the january 6 committee is about to hold its first public hearing in more than two months. that s going to happen next wednesday. it could be the final hearing before the panel releases its final report. and of course the suspense is building about what its end game will be. will the committee formally recommend a criminal prosecution of donald trump to the doj in connection with the capital attack? that remains a possibility. in the classified documents case, the trump team has until next friday to present proof to a special master that
politicsnation. tonight s lead, tipping point. strong winds are blowing in donald trump s world. and then appear this week, that at least one of the investigations are circling trump has reached a critical mass. that of course being new york attorney general tish james s probe of trump illustrate business. lodging at a minimal that trump s old evaluation of his properties constituted a massive decades-long fraud. not denied that defined his organization. of course, the revelations were met mostly with silence from congressional republicans. as a house gop was more concern this week for the unveiling of 2023 agenda ahead of midterm elections in just six weeks. that agenda on surprisingly focused on crime and the border. both issues providing a backdrop for the ongoing drama over the falls relocation of hispanic migrants to liberal cities by red state republicans. one of those cities being the one i am reporting to you from. new york city. and in a few moments, i will talk
mixed in with a mess of whole other stuff. i find that odd. some kind affjunk drawer happening because, look, some of the nation s most important secrets potentially and again we don t know what is in these documents. we still don t know. we know the type of document, the classification. bullet the fact a document of this potential could be mixed in with clothes and gifts and press clippings, do you see possibly an innocent explanation interest this? let s think about a benefit of the doubt. can one be extended? not at all. i mean there is absolutely no good reason for donald trump to have taken any of this. i mean, there s no justification for why he d have to use it. i mean it just these are documents that belong to the government. they should have been left behind. he has not come up with any justification as to why he had the right to have these documents. he claimed at one point recently that he declassified them. but he never made that argument in the course of,
in a storage room. this december despite one of his lawyers telling the government they ve given everything back before that search. now agents found government documents mixed in with personal items like gifts and clothing. there are also dozens of empty folders that were marked as classified. i want to bring in cnn s sara murray, political analyst laura barone lopez, and nick akerman, and also we have national security attorney bradley moss. a great panel to talk about this very important issue. i want to begin with you here, sara. you ve been going through the inventory documents from this mar-a-lago search. tell me what is standing out to you? well, i mean, certainly it s the volume. they say there are 11,000 government documents that are not classified. but also, when you dig in to the classified documents you, have you 103 documents. we re now learning that amounts to hundreds of pages in these documents. but 18 of those are top secret. 54 are secret. 31 are confident
fox weather reporter robert ray is live in bermuda, what are you seeing this morning? yeah, good morning from bermuda, the small island out in the atlantic ocean, been getting pummelled anyway t by the hurricane issue the category 4 hurricane fiona, it is about parallel with the island of bermuda, look at the video from overnight and the wind is coming in, gusts up to 71 miles per hour and the past few hours that is almost hurricane strength. next two or three hours, it is expected to get more intense and taper off into the afternoon as it makes its way up into canada. if we can, take a look at this sail drone video from out in the atlantic ocean, this was yesterday, just a few hundred miles from the island of bermuda. look at the swells, 50-foot wave and that is happen ing around bermuda, just from the north carolina coast. thus far we are right on the virge of those gusts into the world of hurricanes, hurricane winds are 74 miles per hour and the rain continues to come i