sale on ebay. the price tag, $1,200. how did it get there? who bought it? let s go outfront. i m poppy harlow in for erin burnett. the former president s attorneys downplaying the classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. that comparison to an overdue library book made by trump s new lawyer, florida s former solicitor general. during the search of trump s home, the fba seized 33 boxes, which included more than 100 classified documents, which were marked confidential, secret and also top secret. that is on top of 15 boxes that trump s team turned over in january where there were 184 classified documents. they reiterated the trump for a special master to examine the documents seized. the judge in all of this did today stop short of making a final decision at the hearing. we could get her ruling on that any minute. we could soon learn more about what the fbi took in those boxes from trump s home last month. the judge said she s thinking about publically releasing a more det
trump lawyer jim trusty described the battle over whether the documents were kept as comparable to a dispute over to an overdue lie b. the judge indicating if she appoints a special master, she may still allow the intelligence community to review the seized documents as part of a damage assessment. prosecutors, meantime, arguing the special master was unnecessary and saying trump s team has offered no evidence there was any disregard for the former president s rights. as the judge asks, what s the harm in appointing a special master. beyond the courtroom, trump it s not like this was some sinister plot. reporter: insisting whatever happened at mar-a-lago was the result of hastily packing up to leave the white house. you accumulate a lot of stuff over a term and all of a sudden you re leaving and stuff gets packed up and sent. reporter: trump s team down played the documents found in his home and club, without denying they were classified. saying, simply put, the n
Do it tonight, during primetime, so we can make sure majority of americans who, by the way, stand with us on a lot of the issues that are important to them. these are the things the president is going to speak about. you have talked about this. we have seen the extremism from the republican party, that maga republicans in congress, those office holders who have talked about just blatantly, clearly about how they want to take away our rights, who have talked about, when you think did dobbs and the decision on june 24th that scotus made. they want to put a national ban. they want to take away freedoms that women have to make their own decision on their health care. that s one part of it. there s also what we have seen, january 6, not standing up for free and fair elections, not standing up for a law enforcement officer when we had a mob attacking our democracy,
Again, you re looking at live pictures of the door where president biden will walk out in just a few minutes. scott jennings to you. jeff previewed one of the excerpts of this address and it says that president biden will say maga forces are trying to, quote, take this country backwards. how do you think that will land with republican voters? and the white house is trying to make a distinction between what they call maga forces and republican voters. i find it interesting that they keep saying that the speech isn t about trump but we re going to say maga. we ve been saying maga, ultra maga from the white house press secretary s podium and joe biden s own lips so it s obviously about donald trump and it s clear why, because they think putting trump at the center of the election is their best chance to hold the congress, period. if it s a referendum on trump like it was in, say, the 2018 midterm, they think they have a great chance. what do you think? if it s a referendum on biden
Argument that trump s team made that classified documents are essentially like a, quote, overdue library book. it s a startling suggestion. it s very cavalier when we are talking about the nation s most heavily guarded secrets, the most highly classified information, higher than top secret. they are being placed in an environment that s very insecure, a resort, subject to public coming in and out, where it also means that the intelligent community is engaged in a damage assessment to see whether or not this implicates the u.s. national security human sources whose lives may be in danger, surveillance programs that might have to be suspended because we have to assume they re compromised. i think it s an unfortunate statement to put it mildly. it s not just receiving a note from your librarian. it s a grand jury subpoena which they seem to have disobeyed. it s something of a much greater magnitude.