Good evening, everyone. I'm Laura Coates and welcome to CNN Tonight. Our breaking news, everyone.

Reports tonight that a former assistant to Donald Trump says that he instructed her to say he knew

nothing about boxes, boxes full of classified documents, of course, stashed at his private club.

Now his exact words when he learned investigators wanted to talk to one Molly Michael,

but reportedly, you don't know anything about the boxes. And this assistant, who was in a position,

I should mention, to know quite a bit. Molly Michael worked for the then president right outside

of the Oval Office and continued to work for him after he left the White House. So the big question

everyone's asking tonight is, what else might she know? Plus, the GOP at war with itself an

impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden going full speed ahead as a government shutdown continues

to loom and Kevin McCarthy fighting to keep his job in the face of a lot of pressure from the far

right of his own party. The question, can Kevin McCarthy keep that gavel? And how Prince William,

appealing when incognito in New York Central Park today? And apparently, New Yorkers didn't notice,

maybe they didn't care. We'll tell you all about it tonight. But I want to begin with new developments

tonight in former president Trump's classified documents case running. We now, national security

attorney Bradley Moss and litigation attorney A. Scott Bolden. Glad to have you both here. Now you've

undoubtedly heard this news. It's pretty interesting to think about the fact that and I'm done

many a dramatic reading on how I think he may have been said. You know anything about the boxes?

Was it like you know nothing John Snow? I don't know how it really went down. But he apparently told

this woman that she doesn't know anything about the boxes. Now, of course, we know the boxes

are very problematic. Is this a broadcast huge billboard to say obstruct?

I think what it does is it's a large piece to it. But what's unique about this new witness is

it's a direct witness. It's direct contact. There's no hearsay, which is a Tavaris witness.

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