manhattan d.a. alvin bragg taking legal action agains republican jim jordan, and president biden s latest comments on his plans for 2024 let s take a look at some of the week s top stories the manhattan district attorne leading the prosecution of donald trump is now suing a to house republican alvin bragg filed the lawsui against judiciary committe chairman jim jordan yesterda in response to what bragg call a brazen and unconstitutiona attack by members of congres on an ongoing criminal prosecution. bragg has come under increased scrutiny to put it mildly by the ohio republican since it became lightly that the former president would be charged i new york city. calling on the game solved t testify before congress, jorda issued a subpoena last week, ordering a former prosecutor i the case to appear before th judiciary committee. in the new lawsuit, the de asked a court to block tha subpoena, arguing that it coul cause irreparable harm to th case if certain secret materia is dis
sensitive documents. so it doesn t matter that they were there. he said, quote, everything was declassified. so far, that argument has been noticeably absent for many decoration by trump s lawyers in court. this morning, and a legal filing, trump s attorneys once again failed to say that trump declassified any documents. for the more, then system that actually, these documents might not in fact be classified to begin with. essentially, trump s team is saying, don t trust the doj, because who knows of these papers are really classified. over and over again. the 100 classified documents identified by the doj, the justice department, are afford to buy trump s legal team as, quote, purportedly classified. yes, that s classified in quotes. a little over two hours after that sharply ordered filing, trump s attorneys in the justice department appeared in federal court in brooklyn this afternoon for their first conference with the newly in pointed trump picked special master, and jud
court in brooklyn this afternoon for their first conference with the newly in pointed trump picked special master, and judge raymond dearie. gary is a senior judge in the eastern district of new york.eis brooklyn is his turf. two hours after trump s team cast out on the government s assertion that these documents are classified, again, ca reportedly classified, with air quotes.encl yes, like this very clearly marked documents you see right now on your screen. reportedly classified. the special master, again, and pick by trump, especially says, i m inclined to think they are indeed classified. before i read this quote, quick classical lesson here. you should know that prima flashy evidence means on the hy face of it. here is judge jerry on these documents, speaking to trump s attorneys. the government, of course, once the classified documents off thh table for the moment at least. and i understand that. we re dealing with presumably highly sensitive information. if i m going t
to get inside brags office and bragg s thinking not only on that criminal case that was not brought, but th one that was just brought in the last couple of weeks dealing with their issue relaying to trump in those payments to stormy daniels i another woman. and so republicans hope that mark prominence is the way int this investigation and hop they take a knock down here in washington, d.c. and see if he can halt th subpoena but i don t - i think is going to be a uphill battle for bragg. josh, it looks like republicans are going to loo back and say that paul morantz has also written a book. like how can you stop him from testifying when people o already read what he has t say. right, that s the trickiest part of that, given that h wrote the book, it s hard fo him to take the position that can t say one word to you no
the subpoena i unconstitutional because congress has no power to conduct oversight of the state constitution a federal judge has scheduled hearing on the lawsuit later i the week joining us now senior politica affairs for politico, josh christine. josh, good morning, talk littl bit more about what prompted this lawsuit from alvin brag and what that specific complaint is and where it goes from here. well willie, the lawsuit aimed at the subpoena to mar pomerantz who is actually not current prosecutor for alvin bragg but had a falling ou with bragg about a year ag when alvin bragg, who ha recently come into office, signal that he was not going t bring a broad tax and insuranc fraud kind of case against trump in criminal court. that led pomerantz and one o his aides to resign, but since then, there s been a effort by jordan and other house republicans to try to us pomerantz is kind of a vehicle