part of the republican party. and he will continue to do that. reporter: and joining us now is washington post national political reporter isaac ards. thank you so much for being with us. i want to start with the piece that you co-authored entitled trump plots aggressive midterm strategy seen in gop as double-edged sword. so could you mean by the double edged swords. in the primary, what we heard was trump s first general election rally. in the primaries he was the envy of all. his endorsement, his backing, every candidate wanted that and what you started to see almost immediately after those candidates won the primary was, taking trump off the top of their website, like dr. oz did. and starting to try to put some distance between themselves and trump. because while he is the number one thing for primary voters, the republican base, with the general election electorate, it is a little bit of a different story. and so what strategists are trying to figure out, republican s
got to appoint their own judge. america s education prices. as kid goes back to school the ideological war over the uncomfortable aspects of american history and the book banning all while the u.s. faces a massive teacher shortage. good evening, everyone, as you begin the readout today, one day after donald trump got on a stage and called vicious monsters and just how effective it is when a corrupt president is allowed to put so many judges on the bench. that s because a federal judge who trump picked today did him a huge favor to put it in trumpian terms, on an investigation that could not be more critical to our national security. u.s. district judge aileen cannon released her ruling granting the request by trump s legal team to request a legal master, look for any privileged material. while that process unfolds, the judge is blocking the justice department from continuing its investigation into trump s theft and grossly negligent mishandling of classified documents. now no
18-year-old walk in, a 20-year-old and buy an ar-15. that s why back in 1994 i took on the nra and passed the assault weapons ban. for ten years mass shootings were down. ten years in a row. i was going to say i passed that legislation in 1994 as a senator. but in 2004 republicans let that ban expire. what happened? mass shootings in america tripled. it s time to ban these. it s time to ban these weapons. we did it before. we can do it again. [ applause ] it s time to hold every elected official s feet to the fire and ask them are you for banning assault weapons, yes or no? ask them. if the answer is no, vote against them. [ applause ] look, i m prouder that after seven years we finally had a senate confirm director of alcohol, tobacco and firearms responsible for fighting gun crimes, for seven years the other team would not let us appoint anyone to that job. incredibly important job to help local law enforcement, federal law enforcement identify the ballistics. a whole range
attorney rudy giuliani has made the perfect phone call excuse. now they want to make him responsible for having taken classified documents and preserved them. really if you look at the espionage act, it s not really about taking the documents, it s about destroying them or hiding them or giving them to the enemy. right. it s not about taking them and putting them in a places that roughly as safe as they were in in the first place. taking classified documented, some marked classified sci is as unsafe as keeping them in the national archives and west wing. the espionage act actually does refer specifically to willfully retaining documents and failing to deliver them on demand to the federal employee or officer entitled to receive them. as we said, this perfect phone call excuse has come after an evolution of excuses made by the former president s supporters for having the files stashed at a country club. here s his youngest song the evening after the search. my father
learning about the type of documents that were recovered in the search and what they may have related to? sorry, can t get kaitlin yet. pamela, you ve been reporting on what triggered this search, mainly concerns about what the former president had and had not already turned over to the federal government. questions about the truthfulness of his representatives. what else do you have? remember, this investigation had been going on for more than a year. in june, the fbi met with some of donald trump s representatives at mar-a-lago, saw the room where some of these additional documents were being held, sent a letter after saying it should be padlocked. the bottom line, i m told through a source familiar, is the fbi believed donald trump and his representatives had not turned over everything it should have or it was required to that belong to the government. we know previously, the national archives had taken 15 boxes from mar-a-lago including classified information. in this c