i m taking charge of my cholesterol with garlique. well good evening everyone, i am laura coats and this is cnn tonight. now president biden is responding this evening to the discovery of at least ten classified documents in his former private office. people know i take classified documents, classified information seriously. i was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there were any duck government records taken there to that office. but i don t know what is in the documents, my lawyers have not suggested i ask what documents they were. i have turned over the boxes, they have turned over the boxes to the archives and are cooperating fully, cooperating fully with the review which i hope will be finished soon. well the documents were discovered on wait for it, november 2nd. from joe biden s time as vice president, including with any u.s. intelligence memos and briefing materials about ukraine and iran in the uk. we are learning exclusively at cnn that a cou
gets underway on this friday night. good evening, i m jonathan capehart in for a stephanie ruhle. the breaking news this hour, the new york times is now reporting that trump endorsed a georgia senate candidate herschel walker, urged his ex girlfriend to have a second abortion, after he allegedly paid for that first abortion which was reported by the daily beast. walker has yet to respond to this latest report. and just a short time ago, the daily beast, added to the story it s been breaking all week. reporting that walker s wife reached out to his accuser earlier this afternoon, and nbc news tonight is reporting that walker is now confirming, for the first time, friday, the identity of the woman, and, quote, in a brief interview, walker said this was also the first time, who is the mother of one of his four children, mentioned to him or his wife that she had had an abortion. we will have more on this still developing controversy a bit later in the hour. but tonight, we are al
first thing i thought when i saw that photo was, wow. that is a lot of documents. i mean, we have seen some of the documents that were found in the fbi search of mar-a-lago laid out on the floor in evidence voters like this one here. but the sheer volume of the paper on this giant green palette these green wooden pallets, wrapped in plastic wrap that is just really something. now we know that not all of these papers belong to the government. some of them could legitimately be trumps. maybe he wrote a lot of poetry while he was in office. i don t know. and yeah, the fbi has already reclaimed quite a bit of paper from trump s position possession. more than 11,000 government arguments more than 300 of which were classified dozens of which were marked a secret and more than a dozen of which were marked top secret. but still, just thinking about those pallets stacked high with boxes, which were presumably filled with papers and you really have to wonder, did the fbi get
sensitive documents. so it doesn t matter that they were there. he said, quote, everything was declassified. so far, that argument has been noticeably absent for many decoration by trump s lawyers in court. this morning, and a legal filing, trump s attorneys once again failed to say that trump declassified any documents. for the more, then system that actually, these documents might not in fact be classified to begin with. essentially, trump s team is saying, don t trust the doj, because who knows of these papers are really classified. over and over again. the 100 classified documents identified by the doj, the justice department, are afford to buy trump s legal team as, quote, purportedly classified. yes, that s classified in quotes. a little over two hours after that sharply ordered filing, trump s attorneys in the justice department appeared in federal court in brooklyn this afternoon for their first conference with the newly in pointed trump picked special master, and jud
one of trump s loudest defenses following the has been a chest pounding declaration that he it doesn t matter that they wound up there. he said that, quote, everything was declassified. but so far, that argument has been noticeably absent from any declaration by trump s lawyers in court. this morning, in a legal filing, trump s attorneys once again failed to say that trump declassified any documents. furthermore, they are insisting that actually these documents might not in fact be classified to begin with. essentially, trump s team is saying, don t trust the doj, because who knows if these papers are really classified. over and over again in their 40 page filing the 100 classified documents identified by the doj, the justice department, or referred to by trump s legal team as, quote, purportedly classified. yes, that s classified in quotes. a little over two hours after that sharply worded filing, trump s attorneys in the justice department appeared in federal court in b