today in inside politics, destination destiny. soon donald trump takes off for florida, and tomorrow he sees inside a miami federal court with decades in jail on the line. plus, worry that words can and will hurt people. the former president and his allies put law enforcement on edge with calls for retribution. congressman jamie raskin joins me ahead. and trump s 2024 republican rivals are choosing between two paths attacking law and order or risking voter anger by saying the president, the former president, was wrong. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. right now heading for history. you re looking at live pictures of former president donald trump. any moment he takes off for florida from newark airport. we all just watched his motorcade make the 30-mile drive from his golf resort, and tomorrow he goes in front of a federal judge in miami. and there trump will were the title, something he hasn t wanted, the first former president to fa
fight. her fight is not over regardless of what happens on tuesday. it is literally a vote to help save the republic. here i have a one bedroom and i pay $800 a month. americans leaving pricey u.s. cities heading south to work from home in mexico city. it is tuesday, august 16, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where the u.s. justice department is making clear just how serious they are about the criminal investigation of donald trump and the search of his florida home. they are now opposing the release of an affidavit used to get the search warrant for the mar-a-lago despite growing calls for more information. evan perez has the details from washington. reporter: justice department says releasing more information about the investigation that led to the search of donald trump s florida home would put the probe and possibly highly classified information at risk. the department made the statement in a court filing opposing efforts by the news media incl
motorcade make the 30-mile drive from his golf resort, and tomorrow he goes in front of a federal judge in miami. and there trump will were the title, something he hasn t wanted, the first former president to face a federal arraignment. let s go straight to cnn s kristen holmes. help us capture the moment and what you re hearing from your sources in trump world. reporter: look, they are taking this very seriously. here s what we know so far we just saw trump go by several minutes ago, he drove by here. they arrived at the newark airport. when they land in miami, they will be going up to his doral club. i am told there they re going to meet with lawyers, talk about their legal strategy going into this. remember, they lost two lawyers on this case, two lawyers resigned. they are looking for a strong florida-based attorney who can deal with the department of justice. someone who has experience with that. we know that they are making calls, trying to gauge interest in what attorneys or
look, the documents were unlawfully in donald trump s possession which was bad enough, which is a violation of the law. but even when given the opportunity to return them to the archives, to turn them back over to the government, trump refused to do so repeatedly. that s what he s being charged with. that obstruction of justice and playing that game of cat and mouse with the government. you probably saw i did an interview with your colleague on the house judiciary committee, jim jordan, on state of the union yesterday. i want you to listen to the way that he defended the notion of the former president having these documents. the standard is clear, the standard is navy versus egan in 1988 case, unanimous decision from the court that justice blackman wrote the opinion. it said the president s ability to classify and control access to national security information flows from the constitution. he decides. he alone decides. he said he declassified this
what we do know always is that this the choice of bringing this case by the justice department, to bring this case here in miami is something that took shape over the last few months. you know, dana, that the grand jury in washington has been kind of the venue where they ve been gathering most of the evidence. so it took people took people by surprise a little bit that they chose to bring it here. one of the issues that surfaced for prosecutors was the issue of venue, which was the fact that mar-a-lago, which is where the former president took these documents, that s in this district. made it more difficult to bring a case in washington which, you know, let s be honest, would have been probably a jury more friendly toward the prosecution, and he ll probably get a friendlier trump jury here in southern district of florida. dana? that s really interesting about the venue because it has been a big question, not just about choosing that, you know, that there are reasons for that, but