Washington. We begin with a Fox News alert. Hurricane helene as strengthened to a category 4 storm with winds up to 130 miles per hour. Its expected to bring a potentially unsurvivable 20foot Storm Surge and major flooding later tonight and the states big Bend Region. We are praying for everyone in the Storms Path in florida and we bring you the latest updates we will with reporters on the ground throughout this hour. But, first, should have stuck with joe. Thats the focus of tonights angle. Now, for years, at public appearances, Joe Biden was repeating limbself, often speaking in gibberish. Those were the words of ja john, ketanji brown jackson. Repeat the line, will not bring israel will only bog down israel in gaza. Laura well, they are about to contract a wicked case of Buyers Remorse over at the Democrat Party because the new immember Son Swing State poll shows that every battleground is tied except georgia where trump is up by 2. The economy remains the number one issue in all of
on, and sat down. you know the breaking news beckons. yeah when, the breaking news beckons. thank you, victor, i ll see you tomorrow. this is don lemon tonight, and won t be long now, because it s got to happen before midnight, any minute now we re expecting the doj s response to team trump s request for a special master to drop. and this is not just some routine paperwork, it s going to get a lot here. it s gonna be a, doozy so you want to stay tuned. again, it s supposed to happen before midnight, so it s supposed to happen in the hours that were on. now the justice department got special permission from the judge to submit an extra long response, up to 40 pages, twice as long as a usual 20-page lemon. the doj says they need to quote, adequately address the legal and factual issues raised by trump s filings. what is in those 40 something pages? we should know soon. but those factual issues, it certainly sounds intriguing, doesn t it? so remember, this is all about tru
pages that they usually have in the southern district of florida tell us the justice department believes they need to talk, they need to say some more about what the former president was alleging in his lawsuit against the government asking for the special master. there are a lot of things that the former president said in that filing, obviously a lot of it are his grievances about how the fbi in the justice department are biased against him. but some of it was about how cooperative he has been with this effort to get these documents back. so, i think you re gonna hear a little bit more about that in this filing. there is a lot of narrative that we still do not know about, beginning obviously in 2021 when the national archives first approached the trump team and ask them to please return these documents that belong to you and me and all americans. when you re looking for, george? well, i m going to be interested to see if they do contain more of a factual narrative that w
to donald trump s lawsuit requesting that a special master review documents retrieved from his palm beach home. donald trump sued the justice department last week to stop the review of those documents, in a move many are seeing as a delay tactic. in that lawsuit, trump s lawyers claim that he always gave the government complete cooperation. the justice department has until midnight tonight to respond to those claims, and by all accounts they sure have a lot to say. yesterday, the department asked the judge permission to go beyond 20 page filing limit, and submit a 40-page response. 14 pages to trump s lawsuit. the government said it needed the extra pages to, quote, adequately address the legal and factual issues raised by trump s motion. again, that filing can come literally any moment now. that doj filing could potentially shed more light on the government s criminal investigation, and will no doubt serve as a 40-page rebuttal to donald trump s claims of complete cooperatio
information classified at the highest levels. for context that s more than twice the amount that had been handed over in june after a grand jury subpoena. some documents were so sensitive government officials needed a higher level of security clearance just to review them. the doj says government records were likely concealed and removed and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. we will find out what that could mean and why those seized passports may actually be relevant after all. here is what we don t know at this hour, how will trump s team respond? they have until 8:00 p.m. tonight and how will the judge rule after that special master hearing tomorrow? the doj says a special master would, quote, significantly harm important governmental interests, including national security interests. we will dig into all of that and more with our team of reporters and analysts. let s bring in nbc s julie ainsley former u.s. attorney barbara mcquaid