joe biden and donald trump heading to a showdown, but traveling very different roads. new nbcs reporting on how biden is aiming to get under trump s skin, while team trump s wild pregame accusation may be revealing a case of nerves. we got details on what is happening behind the scenes leading up to thursday s big debate. plus, the debate in a florida courtroom over the raid at the center of the mar-a-lago documents case. eye opening new photos of exactly where classified documents were found in donald trump s home. the judge now makes a consequential decision. what can and cannot be used in court. and the end of the years long legal battle in the u.s. versus julian assange. after the wikileaks founder agreed to plead guilty in a deal sparing him more prison time. what this may mean for when something like this inevitably happens again. but we begin with new nbc reporting that president biden is in intense preparations for thursday s crucial debate. getting ready to f
we re just learning the identity of that i.t. director, two people close to the investigation tell cnn his name is taveras, trump employee number four in that indictment. trump is also facing an additional charge for willfully retaining a top secret document about military attack plans for iran. cnn s paula reid joins me now. two categories in effect in these new charges in the classified documents indictment. tell us about the obstruction one, about deleting potential evidence here. that s right. all of the new legal problems in this new superseding indictment, of all of them, the biggest one is the fact they were trying to obstruct their own obstruction. here the former president allegedly applying pressure to relatively low level employees to try to destroy surveillance footage, which is at the heart, jim, of the prosecution s case. and now he has a new
of the hush money case. joining me now is michael zeldin. michael, good morning to you. thank you so much for joining us. i read through the indictment. i m sure you read through it as well. the details are stunning. the alleged lies, the way the highly sensitive government secrets were stored at a residence, i m curious as a former prosecutor and as an american citizen, what went through your mind as you read these details? well, they were stunningly honestly. jan smith asked us to read the entire indictment, but i think if you read paragraph three, which details the nature of the documents, they did include nuclear weapons, military attack plans, responses by our allies to attacks, and then paragraphs 34 and 35, which i think are the