of politically motivated violence. and it all comes as president biden is set to give a prime time speech tonight, focusing on the soul of the nation. we ll have more on his message to a divided country just ahead. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, the 1st of september. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. breaking news overnight, former president donald trump s legal team has responded to the department of justice s latest filing on the classified documents seized during the fbi search of mar-a-lago. in their 18-page filing trump s lawyer suggested that by launching what they described as an unprecedented, unnecessary, and legally unsupported raid on mar-a-lago, the d.o.j. was quote criminalizing a former president s possession of personal and presidential records in a secure setting. trump s legal team also aggressively renewed its request for a special master, or a third party, to review the documents that the fbi agent
hi, mark. good to see you. thursday the justice department will tell a judge if the affidavit is released, it could compromise the ongoing investigation. it s been more than a week since the fbi searched trump s mar-a-largo estate. while a search warrant explains what was uncovered, many juicety details remain undisclosed. the government said why they want to cheap this private. if disclosed, they say, the after day would be a road map to the government s on going investigation providing details about their direction in a manner that is highly to compromise future investigative steps. former president trump accuses the justice department of abusing their power. he announced he supports the unveiling of the affidavit. he said prior to leaving office, he had the power to declassify documents found at mar-a-largo. we re hearing from john bolton who calls that argument laughable. was not briefed on that. the president never said anything to me during 17 months there. i just t
half an hour and they have been taking breaks? that is true. they have been brief breaks, but as we have seen in the past week, they have been taking a length of a break between 11:00 and 11:30, but we don t know the motivation of this break yet. over to kaitlan collins on the courthouse steps. kaitlan? i think that this is going as poorly as it could potentially go. no one thought that it would go well with donald trump on the stand, but the fact that they have taken a break, and they are less than an hour into the testimony and the judge has repeatedly admonished trump and just threatened to remove him from the witness stand and said that he would draw every negative inference that he could, that is not good. that is essentially trump not appearing or taking the fifth, because the judge s discretion here is quite high in making the determination, and the highest actually in making the determination of what these damages are going to look like, because at the heart of
digits, upper 90s, in salt lake city, and 100 in reno, 109 in fresno, and a big difference in the east. feeling like fall in some spots. chicago, by saturday, 81 degrees. upper 70s by sunday. so looking good there. jonathan. michelle grossman, thank you as always. stay ahead on way too early, new missteps from donald trump and the legal team as they try to win the battle of public opinion concerning his mishandling of classified documents. we ll be right back. back.
they re being overwhelmed by donald trump. if we were in a coliseum with two graduators, one of them donald trump and the other merrick garland, we would be about to witness the slaughter of the lambs. trey, two different tracks here. there s this battle of public opinion. as long as the attorney general doesn t come forward and director wray doesn t come forward, it allows the former president and his team to spear the conversation about what is happening. yeah, nature of vacuums. you and i learned that in equity class. right now the vacuum is many of us recall a biassed fbi agent leading the investigation in to alleged russia collusion. many of us recall that they gave the questions to secretary clinton before they interviewed her. they made up their mind they wouldn t charge her before they interviewed her. so look, in a perfect world, ambassador bolton is right.