i m paula reid in washington. jim acosta has the day off. we are following several developing stories on this busy afternoon. the u.s. takes another step closer to running out of money to pay its debts. despite a deadline as close as 12 days away, the high-stakes negotiations between the white house and republicans have broken down. and it s not clear when they will resume. meanwhile, president biden will cut short his asia trip to address the looming debt crisis, but before heading home tomorrow from the g7 summit in japan biden will meet with ukraine s president. president zelenskyy is making a dramatic appearance at the gathering to ask world leaders for more help in the war against russia. zelenskyy s plea comes as russia claims a major victory in ukraine. today the head of the mercenary wagner group says his fighters captured bakhmut after months of brutal fighting. ukraine says it still holds a small portion of the city. cnn s phil mattingly is at the g7 summit in hiros
in the white house, in the oval office, they don t match the same level of, you know, care, if you will, that are done in the intelligence agencies and in the military. and so marked documents, whether classified or key classified, and unclassified documents get mixed in. this is not just about when packed up to leave. this is about the four years while they are in office. now, since we submitted this letter we found out that the archivist testified that every administration going back to reagan has had the exact same issue. that s what we were talking about there. so the procedures for declassification is a separate issue from how these boxes were packed and how the documents were kept during that four years. now, we know from cnn reporting this week jack smith, the special counsel, is interested in this process and especially how much your former client nknew and understood abot the process. a fellow attorney who signed this letter told erin burnett
questions about it. but ultimately i didn t think that he said anything too terrible in there. maybe some inartful things like that, but nothing that changes the tenor of the investigation. the special counsel s investigation cnn recently learned that the special counsel is particularly interested in the survey footage from mar-a-lago, what happened after they asked. are you aware of any gaps in the surveillance footage that has been provided to the special counsel? not at all. none. and on that surveillance footage a lower level trump aide is seen moving boxes out of storage. he has spoken with the investigators. they believe he may have given misstatements to investigators. do you think he will be charged? i don t. i don t. i think that if there were some inartful statements made because he was a little bit confused. ultimately, the fact that somebody is moving boxes is not evidence of obstruction. it s evidence of an ongoing
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certification and that is what is used. it s not, you know, an attempt to hide additional things nor is it intended to be a blanket statement that nothing else remains. if a lawyer were going to write that, they would put in nothing else remains. a lot of questions in terms of these documents being brought down to mar-a-lago. if the nation s secrets were in any way compromised. former president trump was asked at cnn s town hall if he ever shared documents with people let s take a listen to what he said. did you ever show those classified documents to anyone? not really. i would have the right to. they were declassified let me just tell you. i have the absolute right to do whatever i want with them. i had the right. as his defense attorney, was what your reaction to that answer, not really . i was focusing on the question where he hasn t admitted that there were any classified documents there he said he declassified them.