issue for all families. the governor and mayor pointing finishes about who is at fault, but a lot of residents want to know when will it get fixed. mikhail gorbachev is credited with bringing down the iron curtain and bringing together unity in europe. after 12 years under putin, gorbachev was in charge. he wasn t alone. welcome, it is wednesday, august 31, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and palm beach where donald trump s legal team has until tonight to respond to some explosive new allegations from the justice department. federal prosecutors claim government documents were likely concealed and removed from storage at mar-a-lago s resort as part of an effort to obstruct their investigation. the justice department was responding to trump s request for a special master to review materials seized from mar-a-lago. the department also says the former president lacks legal standing to intervene in its investigation since the documents belong to the gover
Didn t believe it was necessary, they said that the government has already completed its work in going through the documents, it segregated any attorney/client privilege information and they also said that donald trump doesn t have the standing to intervene in this. these are not his documents. these are the property of the government. but they also laid out their clear rebuttal to what the trump team has been saying. the trump team has been saying the former president was cooperative with the justice department, they suggested that the search at mar-a-lago was over the top. in this filing the justice department lays out what they found in the august search, they say there were over 100 unique documents with classified markings. and this is important because they say this is twice as many documents as what the trump team produced after they had been subpoenaed. so they had an opportunity, they said that they handed over everything as a result of this subpoena, and what the justice depa
Classified markings. they also included a photo that showed the cover sheets, the classification, sort of a sample of what they found. and in this filing, they also set said that there were documents likely concealed and removed from mar-a-lago from a storage room there in an attempt to obstruct the investigation. this court fight is going to continue. donald trump s side has until wednesday evening to respond. and there is going to be a hearing on this matter on thursday. sara murray, cnn, washington. the court filing also contends trump and his legal team have been pushing an incomplete and inaccurate narrative about the fbi search. it says the number of documents recovered in august cast serious doubt on the claim by trump s lawyer that all classified material had been turned over. and evan perez has more. reporter: the photograph that we keep showing is these are documents that were recovered from according to this document today, it says the justice department says that it c
Their investigation. the justice department was responding to trump s request for a special master to review materials seized from mar-a-lago. the department also says the former president lacks legal standing to intervene in its investigation since the documents belong to the government not to trump. the court filing came with a photo showing documents covered in classified markings found in a container in trump s office. the justice department says more than 320 classified documents have been turned over by trump all seized in the fbi search. sara murray reports. reporter: the justice department weighing in with its side of the story with what happened in the run-up and after math 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 appointed to review the documents that the fbi seized when they searched mar-a-lago. the trump team has argued that they want this special master. the jus