the former attorney general, bill barr, weighing in on a potential indictment of donald trump. here s what he said on fox earlier. i think, as i ve said all along, there are two questions. will the government be able to make out a technical case? will they have evidence by which that they could indict somebody on, including him? that s the first question. and i think they re getting very close to that point, frankly. but i think at the end of the day, there s another question, it s do you indict a former president? what will that do to the country? what kind of precedent will that set? will the people really understand that this is not failing to return a library book? that this was serious? you have to worry about those things. and i hope that those kinds of factors will incline the administration not to indict him. because i don t want to see him indicted. it comes as we re learning that the documents seized from mar-a-lago s resort including one on a former government
president biden welcomes barack and michelle obama back for the unveiling of their official white house portraits. i want to thank sharon sprung for capturing everything i love about michele, her grace, her intelligence and the fact that she s fine. we miss them. we begin tonight with steve bannon, the former white house chief strategist who is back in the news, usually for two reasons such as attempting to dismantle the west or as in this case trouble with the law. two years ago bannon was dragged off a billionaire s luxury yacht in handcuffs charged with defrauding donors as part of a fund-raising scam purportedly aimed at funding trump s border wall that mexico was supposed to pay for. now bon none lined his pockets $1 million in waldo nations. after trump pardoned bannon for milking his own supporters the manhattan s district attorney office opened its own investigation and that s because presidential pardons, well, they only apply to federal charges and cannot prohib
but, listen, the classified has even more to worry about because the county six committee, they will have at least one more hearing planned before they submit their full report. according to committee chairman bennie thompson, they are debating inviting some pretty big names like former vice president mike pence and maybe even trump himself. we are going to dig into all of this. joining me now is elie, he is the justice correspondent for the nation. he is also the author of the best-selling new york times book, allow me to retort, a black eyes guide to the constitution. we have to give you all your flowers, elie. when all of this is going down the paschal of weeks, you were the only person that i wanted to talk to about this and get your take. i m a little confused by the multiple lenses here. an appeal, the doj is no longer appealing fighting a special master and they are only asking for a small state for part of the order. what do you think the doj s play is here? what is t
opposing trump s request for a special master to review all the materials seized by the fbi. the department reports it has now recovered more than 320 classified documents from mar-a-lago. prosecutors say, some documents or likely concealed or removed from storage in an effort to obstruct their investigation. the court filing cast serious doubts on a statement by trump s attorney that all classified material had been returned. the justice department also argues that trump lacks legal standing to request a special master s, since the documents belong to the government, not to him. the court filing came with this photo showing documents taken by the fbi from trump s office. more now from cnn s sara mine. the justice department weighing in with the good side of the story of what s happened in the run up and in the aftermath of the search at mar-a-lago. this is all part of the court battle playing out over whether there should be a special master, an independent third party app
to donald trump s lawsuit requesting that a special master review documents retrieved from his palm beach home. donald trump sued the justice department last week to stop the review of those documents, in a move many are seeing as a delay tactic. in that lawsuit, trump s lawyers claim that he always gave the government complete cooperation. the justice department has until midnight tonight to respond to those claims, and by all accounts they sure have a lot to say. yesterday, the department asked the judge permission to go beyond 20 page filing limit, and submit a 40-page response. 14 pages to trump s lawsuit. the government said it needed the extra pages to, quote, adequately address the legal and factual issues raised by trump s motion. again, that filing can come literally any moment now. that doj filing could potentially shed more light on the government s criminal investigation, and will no doubt serve as a 40-page rebuttal to donald trump s claims of complete cooperatio