at the barrel of a gun. russians have orchestrated sham referendum votes in four occupied regions in ukraine. plus, calling trump s bluff. the former president and his lawyers publicly suggested the fbi planted evidence at mar-a-lago. now the trump appointed or approved special master is daring them to make that claim in court. we begin at the white house. notably this is a political venue for president biden s speech moments from now. what are we expecting to hear from the president? this is all part of the amped up political activity we ve seen from president biden as he is anticipating and describing what he believes will be a very tight midterm election campaign. that is why the president is using these types of political events to, one, try to tout some of the legislative accomplishments his white house has achieved, things like infrastructure, bipartisan agreements when it comes to guns and also the recently passed inflation reduction act which touches economic, clima
documents case. he was able to stymie this investigation for about three months because of the special master proceedings, right, he had to give back the classified documents after the 11th circuit ruled but he managed to string out the injunction on unclassified documents for a very long time, until last week, and if you speak to national security lawyers, they say, look, the classified documents are important, but if you re going to prosecute this case, you have to also look at the unclassified documents because they are commingled with the classified documents. now that the doj has basically custody of all of the documents that were seized from mar-a-lago, i expect the criminal investigation on the documents case to move forward swiftly, and i think the trump lawyers are as well, and this is what they re really concerned about. of course they were in federal court last week or the week before even to try and get out of a contempt of court ruling. they managed that, but only just, an
maybe there is some delay they hoped they were going to obtain but as we can see i think the viewers at home can see it has been minimal and i think they need to be looking for an off ramp. i would be trying to figure out some way if i was representing the former president to try to narrow these special master proceedings to do as little damage as possible and have an off ramp where i could declare victory and move on i want to highlight part of judge dearie s order demanding, quote, a list of any specific items set forth in the detailed property inventory that plaintiff asserts were not seized from the premises. end quote. it s direct. it s no nonsense. do you get the sense that he sees it as his duty now to kind of restore the public image of the justice department after trump has tried so hard to undermine public trust? yeah, i think judge dearie is doing his job here, ana. he is trying to dig into the facts and i have to say what s weird here is that the trump team is sort of,