pretty happy about that. that is all in on this thursday night good evening, alex chris, i m all in favor of robust transparency in terms of health and everything as it regards our public officials and especially our president it s painful t oh, it s the worst. and in public. it s such a vulnerable moment for anyone that trips. and then the recovery and then it s on stage anyway, it s just it s funny. he gots back air force one ande said i was sandbagged. literally, it was a big sandbag. thank you, my friend, as always. in july of 2021 joe biden had been president for half a year, but the last days of the trump administration were still very much being reported on. the ways in which trump had tried to overturn the 2020 election in an series of escalating maneuvers which ultimately resulted, of course, in thed, attack on the u.s. capitol. so it was during that summer, july of 2021, when the new yorker published this exclusive story. you re going to have a
united states and the public. whether trump broke the law by having classified documents at mar-a-lago, the heart of that investigation had the former president suggesting yet another new argument about presidential powers and declassifying documents. you re the president of of the united states. you can declassify by thinking about it. the doj ruling came hours after that other legal blow for trump. the 222-page lawsuit by the new york attorney general that charges him, don j, eric and ivanka with widespread fraud and ul legal practices that could threatenen the exist tense of the family business. i want to bring in devlin barrett from the washington post. he wrote about this story today. paul butler is a former prosecutor, professor at georgetown school of law. and olivia troy served as former koubt terrorism adviser to mike pence. so paul, the appellate court said the judge wasn t wrong on some of the points. they went point by point by point and said she was basical
declared brain dead. she led a life of public highs and lows, but through it all she thrived on screen and strived to stay hopeful. he s currently breathing with the help of a ventilator. the question is looming over investigators right now as to what drove this 24-year-old suspect that s been identified as matar from new jersey to charge that stage. i m alex marquardt in washington in for pamela brown this evening. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with the nation s top intelligence official, the director of national intelligence being asked for a damage assessment on classified documents that were removed from former president donald trump s palm beach resort, mar-a-lago. the democratic chairs of the house intelligence and oversight committees wrote together in a letter that quote, the former president s conduct has potentially put our national security at grave risk, and they want an appropriate classified briefing on the conduct of the damage ass
the big surprising legal development of the day is that defendant donald trump has decided that the trial in the case of georgia versus donald trump should take place in a georgia courtroom instead a federal court. that news came after a new york state appeals court rejected donald trump s last-minute attempt to delay the picketing of his civil fraud trial scheduled to begin on monday, after the judge in that case has already ruled that there is overwhelming evidence of business fraud committed by donald trump in lying about the value of real estate, including the value of his new york city apartment. his home. which he claimed is 30, 000 square feet when it is actually one third that size, 10,000 square feet. which is big. people with 10,000 square foot apartments in new york don t need to project they have a bigger apartment than that. but that s donald trump for you. the most surprising legal news of the day, occurred at 3:45 pm in georgia, when donald trump s criminal def
good evening, alex. congressman maxwell frost joining us tonight. it was hard to pick a best moment in the crazy house hearing today. but my favorite was the youngest member of the house of representatives teaching, in effect, the speaker of the house how he supposed to do his job. that was one of the great highlights for me. well, i am eager to hear what maxwell frost has to say about the debacle that unfolded on capitol hill. and, alex, i can only say i was sorry not to be able to do debate analysis last night on this network, because i was working here at ten pm, with a faithful audience, who did not watch the debate and waited until 11 for rachel analysis of it. but i saw enough of it to know that nikki haley stole her a big line from a dear friend of mine, jim downie. we re going to see it later, in this hour, who delivered that line better. jim doughty in the original, or nikki haley last night and the steel. we will show you. both who wore it better? the republ