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is. welcome to this special edition of "the lead." im kaitlan collins in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and a major victory for donald trump for now. a judge has now granted his request for a special master, allowing a third party attorney to come in and review the documents seized from mar-a-lago last month. the judge cited senchlg reasons for her decision, including the potential stigma that donald trump faces after the search plus what she calls, quote, swirling ...

be the next prime minister, taking over for boris johnson, as the leader of a country in crisis. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. im brianna keilar, and this is a "the situation room" special report. >> we begin with the major new development in the mar-a-lago search and the justice department investigation into former president trumps handling of classified documents. a federal judge granting his request for an outside attorn...

political landscape. a landscape in which the former president has developed a cold like following that was willing to storm the u.s. capitol in order to demonstrate its loyalty. one in which a major political party, the gop, is still reluctant to condemn that following it despite the clear risk it poses to our democracy. there have been few times that a president or presidential candidate has been bold enough to outright condemn a segment of the electorate. obama in 2008 call that som...

years chanting lock her up about hillary clinton because of some deleted emails or quote unquote wiping a surveyor, theyre now out there defending a man who clearly did not take the national security of the united states to heart. i will be up to doj whether that reaches the level of indictment. but this is disgusting, in my mind. >> and a reaction to president bidens promise to cancel some student debt for low, middle income borrowers and to critics who say it doesnt go far enough. >>...

needed a pope, we would hold a conclave. biden waxed pseudo spiritual throughout his sermon -- add address. speak with the darkness of charlottesville, covid, gun violence, insurrection. we can see the light. light is now visible. light that will guide us forward. i ran for president because i believe we are in a battle for the soul of this nation. >> raymond: the president claims its a battle for the soul of the nation. but you cant save the soul by killing the body and thats what by ...

>> with all due respect, if we needed a pope, wed hold a conclave. >> but biden waxed pseudoal spiritual throughout his sermon address, the dark of charlottesville, of covid, of gun violence in his direction. charlottesville, covid, gun violence, insurrection. we can see the light.. light is now visible light thatl will guide us forward. i ran for president because i believe were in a battle for the soul of this nation. the president claims that thists is a battle for the soul ofle the...

department. what investigators inside the doj could be looking for. plus, the january 6th committee seeking testimony from trump cabinet members who discussed at the time invoking the 25th amendment to remove the then-president in the panels cross hairs, former treasury secretary steve mnuchin and dni john ratcliff. new cooperation from inside the former presidents doj. someone who worked with jeffrey clarke, the man trump tried to install as acting attorney general in the days lea...

hutchinson ahead of her sworn testimony. a source tells cnn one person who may have tried to influence her did so at the behest of then white house chief of staff mark meadows. the january 6th committee giving us a taste of that pressure campaign. >> this is a call received by one of our witnesses, quote, a person let me know you have your deposition tomorrow. he wants me to let you know hes thinking about you. he knows youre loyal and youre going to do the right thing when you go in f...

th e a trump ally, but, you know, it really does clarify a lot of things for us including the timeline of how these discussions were going on behind the scenes earlier this year. but the fact that there were 700 pages contained here in these 15 boxes taken back from mar-a-lago earlier this year, again, 100 classified documents, some of them in this special access programs type of things, which, again, even if you have classified clearance, the top secret clearance in the united states ...

let s listen. [ speaking russian ] >> i want to apologize to my teammates, my club, the fans and the city for my mistake i made and the embarrassment i brought to them. [ speaking russian ] >> i want to also apologize to my parents, my siblings, the phoenix mercury organization back at home, the amazing women of the wnba, and my amazing spouse back at home. [ speaking in russian ] >> i never meant to hurt anybody. i never meant to put in jeopardy the russian population. i never meant t...