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being tested like never before with the indictment of donald trump now secured, we ll look at the legal challenges and the stakes for the country as well as for d.a. alvin bragg as he undertakes one of the most consequential cases in u.s. history. and while the legal issues play out in court, it may end up being the single most animating issue of the presidential campaign as well in fact, it s already turning the 2024 race on its head, turning trump s adversaries and his defenders and setting the stage for an election unlike any other. even in new york city, which is no stranger to security challenges, police are dpeering gearing up in a way rarely seen, bracing for potentially huge protests outside the courthouse and trump tower in particular. how are they preparing, and what besides protests are they preparing for? but we start with the test ahead for manhattan d.a. alvin bragg can he make his case at trial and turn the first ever indictment of a former president into ....
documents, some of which were marked as top secret sci, the highest level of classification, top democrats are asking for a congressional briefing as well as damage assessment. since last monday s search, the former president s response to the search has shifted. his latest claim any documents taken from fall under attorney/client privilege and should be returned immediately. let s begin with the latest this morning surrounding the investigation. katelyn polantz has been covering this since the beginning. new details this morning about what exactly was in these documents and also questions about who had access to them down there. what might be in these documents we don t actually know because if they re classified and remain to be classified, we may may never know what s in them. over the weekend we did hear from two different house committees led by democrats calling for both classified briefings to explain what was found here. also they want a damage assessment to b ....
In that sense, there s a question of him being able to fulfill his duties, which would invoke some constitutional provisions however, with respect to him just being a candidate, no, that does not necessarily affect him, which is why the indictment or potential prosecution from jack smith becomes paramount because as of right now, he is the only one that has the potential to put something forward that could completely barge him from holding office again oh, boy, charles, brendan, fascinating conversation thank you, guys, so much. and today the manhattan d.a. s office is again slamming house republicans for what it calls unlawful political interference in the ongoing criminal prosecution of former president trump. nbc s ryan nobles is on capitol hill ryan, tell us more about how the d.a. s office is responding to the request by republicans for information that is tied to the trump case yeah, you know, chris, for some time the three house committees led by republicans ....
Committees led by democrats calling for both classified briefings to explain what was found here. also they want a damage assessment to be done by the executive branch, by the intelligence community, the director of national intelligence, in fact. i want to go back to what was found at mar-a-lago because it s very important. what we know is that there was a lawyer who attested in june who was working for donald trump who told federal investigators there was no more classified information left there to be found. then whenever the fbi did go in on monday, to do the search of the building, they found 33 items, 11 of which had sets of classified records in them. they were baseballed at all of the different classified levels within the federal system. so, even the ones that are the most secret should never be contained anywhere outside of very secure rooms. so now the justice department is going to look through what is in those boxes. they re also going to be looking at all of that communic ....
They re not interested in upholding their oath of office. they re interested in covering up wrongdoing by trump. hopefully there are others who take seriously the fact that we are in congress not to put party first but to put country first. and that s what we should how do you i ve seen a lot of reporting on the time line here and there was a lot of reporting about aides and people in leadership like yourself thinking to move quickly and strike while the iron is hot because the facts are quite damning and they re out in front of the public. and you have polls showing as many as 55%, 54% favor impeachment itself. how do you think about the time line and balance that with what we talked about earlier, getting to the bottom of that? what the speaker said earlier, we re going to proceed expeditiously which i interpreted as potentially something is done prior to the end of the year as it relates to the recommendations that the six committees led by the intel ....