he understands the role of attorney general is to serve and protect the people of the united states, and that is exactly what he will do and do better than anybody else can. jeff sessions was a disaster as attorney general. he s not qualified. he is not mentally qualified to be attorney general. we hope bill barr going to be as good as we think because he is a great gentleman, a great man. by the way, when bill barr, who is a coward. you know, bill barr was a coward. he didn t do what he was supposed to do. i fired him, and he has great chairman. for the joint chiefs of staff, general milley will serve as my top military adviser. i have absolute confidence he will fulfill his duty with the same brilliance and fortitude he has shown throughout his long and very distinguished career. he was, frankly, incompetent. the last one i d want to attack with as my leader would be milley. general kelly has been a star. he s done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody. a g
present its case and we don t know also whether the former president might choose to testify in his own defense. i want to start by bringing in cnn senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid who has been all over this story for many, many week, and paula, the indictment is out now. i wonder, what to you as someone following this and every single move and detail, what stands out to you as the most damning information we ve gotten? it s such a strong reminder of how little we know compared to investigators. one of the things that struck me and i think will resonate with the american people are the photographs that the indictment uses to tell the story of how some of the nation s most sensitive secrets were strewn about mar-a-lago. prosecutors in this indictment say that these secrets were in a bathroom, in a ballroom. there you see the photo of them being in a bathroom boxes stacked up there, in the ballroom. these are cardboard, pretty flimsy in a ballroom actively being
el paso s mayor says 2,000 migrants arrive here every day. most of them from venezuela. but some don t stay here for very long, as the city is bussing migrants to other parts of the country. just like the governors of texas, florida and arizona, but here there s coordination with the city of el paso and cities like new york, where many are being sent. yesterday i spoke with several venezuelan mite grans, including one who told me he s just grateful to have a place to go. one who told me he s just grateful to have a place to go. that s where i can work and make a life. if god sends me over there, god will open the doors for me and let me work. so i can work and help my mother and bring her. we ll have more on the situation at the border in just a moment. but we begin with a major development in the probe investigating those highly classified documents seized from former president trump s mar-a-lago home. overnight an appeals court lifted a judge s hold that prevented the j
i want to bring in justice department ken dilanian, meredith mcgraw, and msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos. ken, let me start you with. because the special mast ser out with a brand new filing laying out a fairly strict schedule and the process that he wants both parties to come to grips on basically. talk to us about what we re learning. that s right, hallie. first, he s giving, he s asking the fbi to certify that what they say they seized, that they re standing by that. it was a detail and exact list. and they are giving the trump team a chance to challenge items on the list that are inaccurate or things they say that were seized that aren t on the list. and then he is sending out a bunch of different categories of records that he is asking the trump folks to decide whether they re going to challenge on the grounds of attorney-client communication, and executive privilege, and whether the document is a presidential record, or whether it is a personal record. but hallie,
intensifying as much as we thought it. where there s still a ways to go. the storm has roughly three days to get a strong as it s going to get, and then will weaken as it approaches florida after that. the hope is that it never gets its act together, but all of our computer, guides that are telling us is not going to happen. it s saying this is going to intensify for the next three, days maybe rapidly intensify when it gets to as of now, still only tropical storms, that s not the issue. the issue is that on our computer guides is telling us it gets much stronger from here. becoming a hurricane by tomorrow morning, and then, possibly, a major category three hurricane and a 20 mile per hour winds, only 48 hours from now. that s a really fast, intensification as it moves up there. after that, it goes to the north. then it goes back a little bit. the question is, how much does it bend back to the northeast. if it bends back a little harder, it will be towards tampa, sarasot