get hurt. we begin tonight with a simple rule of legal professionals. in most cases whenever possible, keep your clients off tv and avoid letting them do interviews, which usually do more harm than good. unfortunately, donald trump s lawyers are needy, attention craving client could only hold out for so long, so last night on one of his favorite shows in an interview with his friend, sean hannity, he seemed to make a losing argument even worse. in his latest throw spaghetti at the wall defense or is it throw ketchup at the wall? trump made this outrageous claim about his magical powers to declassify documents. if you re the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified. even by thinking about it. because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or to wherever you re sending it. and it doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process, but there doesn t have to be. you re the president. you make that decision, so when you send it, it s decla
greater interest? as you said, the doj has a strong interest in getting access to these documents right away, because they need to resume their criminal investigation. the federal government, in general, needs to say that they re in danger. spies, intelligence assets, that kind of thing. on the flip side, the court says, donald trump has no possessory interest in these records. what this means, is then the doj right now. they would have to return to the special master, and they were, privileged and a pack in the doj s hands anyway, so now, the doj has a more quickly. hold on to the, stormy grab it. i thought that this was going to be happening with those documents. everyone is going to have a chance to look at them, and obviously a break, and put national security at risk. i thought that is what was going to happen with those documents. that was what was going to happen until we got this ruling. now, the classified documents, a 100 documents out of 11,000 or so, there is
that they ve been restricted from using, in their ongoing criminal probe into these classified documents, that were seized from mar-a-lago last month. the appeals court is saying here, they are really agreeing with the justice department, saying that yes, in fact, national security could be harmed if the justice department can t continue its probe here. they set the doj has argued that the criminal investigation, and then national security investment is inextricably linked. the appeals court saying, yes, in fact, if we don t let the doj continue to use these classified documents, there will be real and significant harm on the united states and the public. notably, in this opinion as well, anderson, the 11th circuit is really faulting trump s lawyers, for not better explaining what seems to be their argument, the trump may be declassified [inaudible] his lawyers, his allies, but they ve not offered any proof in court filings or in-person. so the 11 circuit tonight criticizin
ensuring that the storage of classified records did not result in exceptionally grave damage to the national security so they said d.o.j., you get the documents, not going to trump, not going through the special master. so what happens next? the special master is still doing something here? the special master still has his job. we are here. it s not necessarily over. trump can still ask the 11th circuit to rehear the case en banc, which means all the judges. it wouldn t surprise me if trump tries to get the case to the supreme court. i don t think they take the case. the special master still has to go through the other 10,000 documents. trump wants it done by mid-october. d.o.j. wants to get it done quicker than that. d.o.j. has the 100 classified documents and can use them in the investigation. they more or less have everything that they really want. exactly. they cared about those 100 classified documents more than all the others. ginni thomas, the house vetting c
as it were from this assembly on ukraine. yeah, so as you point out, jim, the russian foreign minister and the secretary of state tony blinken have been in the same place at the same time in multiple instances in recent months. in one of those instances, a secretary of state went after russia and said very bluntly, ukraine is not your country, and we expect that there is going to be more tense confrontation today. and the reason that today is different is because we do expect that both the secretary of state and the russian foreign minnist her lavrov are going to deliver remarks as part of this meeting on ukraine. and when it comes to blinken himself, we re told that he is very similar to president biden yesterday going to directly confront what we have seen as these recent developments over the last few days with president putin talking about the nuclear possibilities of this war. also, with those referendum that are planned in the ukrainian occupied territories in russia