first special master hearing regarding those documents seized by the fbi during their search of former president trump s florida home and club. first, the judge pressed trump s taerns to provide more answers about whether the former president did or did not declassify documents marked top secret. saying, quote, you can t have your cake and eat it. if they want to argue, the documents might not still be secret. trump s attorneys have argued that answering that question now could put them at a disadvantage in the face of a possible future criminal prosecution, or a future legal fight over getting seized documents returned to trump. trump has claimed on social media that he declassified all the records he had, but his lawyers have yet to formally make that argument at any sworn court filings. the judge didn t issue any rulings at the hearing, but did
your vote. and on that vote note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tonight on all in. we will decide all this without actually seeing the classified documents. the first special master hearing not looking, good for the disgraced ex president, tonight for cuban classified arguments and just where he was getting his legal advice. as far as i m concerned, trump shake it every single record that they took, back not just his passports. down the lawsuit and criminal investigation into the ron desantis stunt. somebody saw fit to come from another, state junta, pond pre-pandemic and then take advantage for the desperate situation just for the sake of political theater.
spike in threats against their agents. we know it is still a concern. even yesterday at the hearing, yesterday, the doj made sure to say any additional information, any court documents that are released, they really wanted to make sure that the fbi agents names were redacted. i think there were some, earlier, there were some fbi agents names that got out and they received threats. so it is still a concern. and we saw that yesterday, just in this special master hearing, where the doj went out of its way to make sure that any name that went out was redacted, so that fbi agents did not receive these threats, and there was no pushback from the trump s legal team on this point. all right. the washington post, perry stein and former u.s. attorney, joyce vance, thank you both very much for your coverage and analysis this morning. and still ahead on morning joe, polls show democrats continuing to rise in the generic ballot for congress. but there is another predictor that our next gu
the police has denied mistreating her and says that she died of a heart attack. they also released a cctv video showing the moment amini collapsed, but her family says she had no history of heart trouble. iran s president has ordered an investigation into her death. now, to the first special master hearing regarding the documents seized by the fbi from former president donald trump s mar-a-lago home and club. judge raymond deary pressed trump s attorneys to quickly provide more answers about whether or not trump declassified the documents marked top secret, whether he declassified them himself. he appeared skeptical about trump s claim that he had declassified the more than 100 highly sensitive documents in question. the ones found at mar-a-lago. judge deary also signaled that he intends to move quickly through the review process of the documents, telling attorneys for both trump and the doj that
invited to j.d. vance s rally at all or whether he just showed up of his own accord. whatever the case is, you know, republicans are going to have to deal with donald trump as liz cheney suggested on january 6th. they are struggling to know how to deal with him, but they don t know how to stand up to him. and they still don t know how to stand up to him, and they still, i guess, feel that he is more of an electoral asset than liability. then they fear his voters of course, the man they call orange jesus. we ll have much more on donald trump s rally and that special master hearing coming up in just a bit. also ahead, most of puerto rico this morning still without power after hurricane fiona dumped more than 2 feet of rain on the island. we ll have the latest on the recovery efforts there. could florida governor ron desantis face legal trouble after dozens of migrants were flown by him to virginia last week. a new investigation opened by a sheriff in texas.