. . test. given republicans a lot of momentum. then a couple of months ago, donald trump came back on to the scene. of course, we had the roe v. wade ruling, as well. but that s given democrats a lot of momentum. republicans can see what democrats are trying to do. joe biden is trying to build a coalition of democrats, independents, and disaffected republicans. that s why he s elevating donald trump, because joe biden believes, and a lot of the polling indicates he s right, the more prominent donald trump is closer to the election, the better it will be for democrats. a lot of republicans are aware of that, and are looking to change the subject from donald trump. but the former president loves attention, plans to campaign all over the country, and that could be a big problem for republicans in swing states and swing districts. so adrian to you now, do you agree with that strategy that democrats are pleased the more donald trump is a part of the conversation? yeah, i d
mixed in with a mess of whole other stuff. i find that odd. some kind affjunk drawer happening because, look, some of the nation s most important secrets potentially and again we don t know what is in these documents. we still don t know. we know the type of document, the classification. bullet the fact a document of this potential could be mixed in with clothes and gifts and press clippings, do you see possibly an innocent explanation interest this? let s think about a benefit of the doubt. can one be extended? not at all. i mean there is absolutely no good reason for donald trump to have taken any of this. i mean, there s no justification for why he d have to use it. i mean it just these are documents that belong to the government. they should have been left behind. he has not come up with any justification as to why he had the right to have these documents. he claimed at one point recently that he declassified them. but he never made that argument in the course of,
in a storage room. this december despite one of his lawyers telling the government they ve given everything back before that search. now agents found government documents mixed in with personal items like gifts and clothing. there are also dozens of empty folders that were marked as classified. i want to bring in cnn s sara murray, political analyst laura barone lopez, and nick akerman, and also we have national security attorney bradley moss. a great panel to talk about this very important issue. i want to begin with you here, sara. you ve been going through the inventory documents from this mar-a-lago search. tell me what is standing out to you? well, i mean, certainly it s the volume. they say there are 11,000 government documents that are not classified. but also, when you dig in to the classified documents you, have you 103 documents. we re now learning that amounts to hundreds of pages in these documents. but 18 of those are top secret. 54 are secret. 31 are confident
states. both airbus nbc legal analyst. thank you both, as always, for coming to the sunday show. let me first get your reaction to the special master news in the testimony of pat cipollone, and pat full name. you had started by saying that this was a bad legal before donald trump. i agree, but i would say that it has been a great week for the rule of law. the special master ruling that you talked about, but also, this tax records were handed over to the house committee. doctor donald trump gave it to the supreme court. trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows, was ordered to testify before grand jury, losing his south carolina case. i think the biggest news is the special master wu because the court of appeals, and a unanimous decision, written by two appointees of donald trump, and one of george w. bush, very conservative panel, said it was absolutely nothing to trump s claim that he is entitled to some special
but the timing is interesting. it s awkward. one source told my colleagues who were working on this story this has absolutely nothing to do with the timing of the mar-a-lago search, that all of a sudden he has all these documents to hand over. but another source said, look, all of a sudden the week of this mar-a-lago search we start getting way more documents than we ve been getting before. coincidences, you ve got to love thel on a friday night after there s been a search of mar-a-lago. from mark meadows, interesting. who knows if it s coordinated or not. always nice to see you all on this evening. and hey, listen, while we re waiting for that special master news we re also getting the very latest on serena williams. that s up next.