- [announcer] do you have an invention idea but don t know what to do next? call invent help today. they can help you get started with your idea. call now 800-710-0020. welcome ta to inside politics. thank you for sharing a breaking news day with ut. donald trump indicted. the former president call it is a hoax. there are a host of details coming in. another indictment for a trump aid, a change in the legal team, and details about the trump-appointed judge who will oversee this case. plus an admission on tape that is part of the classified documents case. cnn learns trump acknowledged in a 2021 meeting he had secret information and he did not classify it before taking it from the white house. and the political fallout. one calls for trump to get out of the race. another promises to pardon him. trump allies including the speaker of house call baseless and bias an indictment they have not seen or read. we begin with new details of a chapter in our history that has an ub p
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. two presidents accused of mishandling classified documents and two special counsel investigations. there were no answers at today s white house briefing about why the biden team delayed for months to tell you why documents were found. we are learning that the documents from biden s team included briefing memos about foreign leaders. the justice department is still questioning if he has any of his files on his properties. the fbi got more than 300 from trump s possession after he resisted requests to return those. we re joined by phil mattingly and cnn s senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn pol polantz. phil, did we learn more today? reporter: we learned that if you have any questions, you should refer them to the white house counsel s office and the justice department or the special counsel at this point in time, and i say that somewhat in jest, but i think that s the reality
district judge has been assigned to oversee the case against donald trump. multiple sources tell cnn the trump awe point tee is on this case after another judge handled the court appearance on tuesday. you may remember the judge from her work handling the mar-a-lago search. that work raised eyebrows. let s get more from katelyn pol polantz. what do we expect to happen? reporter: on tuesday, we are expecting donald trump a to come here to this campus in downtown miami. there s a whole complex. there are other buildings here that would allow for donald trump to have quite a secure entrance to the point where we might not even see him physically walk in and out of the building, like you see others throughout the day. that s because he could be
and political commentator katherine rampheld join us now. melanie, janet yellen wrote this in a letter to speaker mccarthy. this is shaping up, i would imagine to be one of the first major battles in congress, and it s happening sooner than i think we thought. reporter: yeah, the clock is officially ticking. listen. we knew that congress was going to have to deal with this issue at some point this year, but now we have actual dates, and it is coming a little zsooner than we thought. janet yellen said that the nation s borrowing limit will be reached by later this month, and that the agency will run out of extraordinary measures to prevent a default by early june. so this is going to be a massive fiscal fight for congress in the early year the early months of the majority here, and speaker kevin mccarthy in his bid has promised to tie the debt ceiling to spending cuts. that means cuts to reforms of social security or medicare which is a hard red line for democrats. the democratic le
justice department review run by the attorney general of chicago played out. there are questions about how the documents landed, what they were, and what we know beyond the documentation reported. this is a difficult moment for this white house, and that underscores this point. it depends on what the special counsel brings to the table, in terms of its investigative power and authority, and it puts them in a position where they are not going to discuss something that s currently under way, and they will limit what they talk about and not intervene in a way that they have to set up for a special counsel. katelyn, you have new reporting on the trump documentation. they want to speak with two specific people. who are they, and why? reporter: victor and alisyn, we don t know their names at this point in time. that s closely held secret, but the justice department wants to interview and speak to two people that were hired by donald trump s legal team to go and