hours trump has suffered a legal setback in a different case. the one regarding the materials seized from his florida beach club. an appeals court has ruled that the justice department can have access to roughly 100 highly simplified classified documents that were taken from mar-a-lago. trump has been arguing that all the documents seized from his club or his personal property, and that if the fbi found anything classified in there, well, trump magically declassified it when he was president even though he has no record of ever having done that. trump got a lower court judge aileen cannon who he appointed to agree that a special master should go through all the documents. and in a ruling that was widely ridiculed, kenneth said while the special master s going through all of those documents, the justice department is not allowed to look at the classified documents, or to use them in a criminal investigation into trump having the documents at his beach club in the first place.
let us bring in our political editor chris mason. in the house of commons they were discussing measures to help people with energy bills, and then this news came through. a lot of messages already coming in from senior political leaders. you could feel, you could hear the tone of real concern among parliamentarians as news was shared amongst the front benches during the statement from the prime minister about her support for energy bills, notes being passed to the prime minister, the deputy labour leader, with the labour leader on his feet at the time, and to the speaker of the house. you could clearly and quickly see, and feel that shift in tone and concern. in addition to the statement from the prime minister, reflecting the deep concern of all in the country at the news from buckingham palace, we have heard from the first minister of scotland and the labour leader sir keir starmer. the labour leader saying, along with the rest of the country, i am deeply worried by the new
the justice department that we suspect may occur during this hour. in the meantime, i have a few things to report about lindsey graham including the lies he told on fox tonight about what he said on fox the last time he was on fox. that is the modern republican party selective amnesia part deletion party. basically anything they said they could land him in trouble, like it never happened. he tried to make it disappear tonight. i don t think that s gonna. work you re gonna keep him honest, and i will be waiting for those 40 pages of explanation by the doj ride-alongs but side you. lawrence weakness gonna see some live reading on tv television. thank you. well, lindsey graham is now afraid of himself. a quisling quisling afraid of a shadow. and he proved that tonight by going on fox to lie about what he said on the fox propaganda channel. he s afraid of his own words, so he s afraid to repeat them, so he lied about them tonight. lindsey graham did not dare to repeat wha
one of the few remaining swing congressional districts new york s 19th went democratic. at least far moment in time, he was a snapshot of america s political mood. a swing district won by obama and then trump and then biden voted to send democrat pat ryan to washington. ryan ran on abortion right. his republican opponent focussed on the economy and crime. and now a midterm election that is just 73 days away and once seemed a fore gone conclusion, a republican takeover of the house and the senate, is much more uncertain. as jonathan weissman pointed out the new york times this week, republicans need just five seats to win the house. and their candidates are in strong positions to win the bulk of nine districts that mr. trump would have won easily two years ago if the new maps had been in place. seven of those nine seats do not have a democratic incumbent to defend them. here is another way to look at it. the nonpartisan cook political report rates 10 democratic seats as lean