classified documents at mar-a-lago were likely concealed or hidden. arguing the former president was simply holding on to his own presidential records. in just a few hours, a judge is set to hear arguments on a request for a special master to review the seized documents. also ahead, president biden is set to deliver a major prime time address tonight on the the battle for the soul of america. we ll get a live preview from the white house coming up. and, the latest on the ongoing water emergency in mississippi. we will speak with the mayor of jackson on the crisis that has now triggered a political blame game. but the bottom line, willie, is people there don t have clean water. that is right. and they haven t for sometime. we ll talk to the mayor in just a moment. but let s begin this hour with former president donald trump s legal team and its response to the department of justice latest filing on the classified documents seized during the fbi search of mar-a-lago. in the 1
based on what we ve radar into justice department filing and everything that has been made public, does that look like to you where perhaps merrick garland, where justice is headed here, at least as a first step, that, yes, donald trump obstructed our ability to get these documents back. yes and no. so, yes, i think obstruction is simple and easy to prove now. the government s filings a couple of days ago lays out a really clear case for obstruction of grand jury proceedings. donald trump was subpoenaed by the grand jury, not for classified information but documents bearing markings of classified documents and that picture, which we all saw, showed that those goods were found at mar-a-lago. and i know trump s defenders like kash patel has said he has a standing order to declassify all documents which has got to be bogus. but even accepting that, the thing is the obstruction case doesn t depend on classification