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decision on whether to appoint a special master to review documents seized during the fbi search at mar-a-lago. this hearing comes after president trumps lawyers responded to the d.o.j. damning filing on tuesday. >> in their response, trumps lawyers pressed their argument that an independent review is needed. despite the justice department saying it had already filtered out any privileged documents. trumps lawyers acknowledge that classified material was found at mar-a-lago. but say th...

justice. plus, joe bidens primetime punch. the president tonight will use a national address to warn republicans are actively working in his view to undermine american democracy. and sarah palin loses in her alaska comeback attempt. a democrat won the special house election. so did advocates of what is called rank choice vote. a first for us, though. a court showdown next hour over the fbis search of donald trumps mar-a-lago. the justice department says it did everything by the book an...

expected to plead guilty to tax evasion. as we wait for a judge to determine whether to unseal the raid on mar-a-lago. lawmakers are calling on the white house to appoint a special envoy to haiti as the humanitarian crisis grows. out west, the urgent actions being taken to prevent what officials warn could be a catastrophic collapse of the colorado river system. we begin with the latest on the legal troubles for former president donald trump and his close associates. any minute n...

investigation. lets break down what each side is arguing before this judge right now. cnns sarah murray is leading us off. sarah, walk us you therough it. >> reporter: ana, this is going to be the continuation of this court fight over whether there should be this third party to go through what was seized at mar-a-lago. the justice department has argued that this is not a necessary step. theyre saying that the trump team pushed an inaccurate narrative about the search and that putting a...

doj could not be sptrusted to v the documents. >> trumps attorney said the filter team at the fbi is using the review the seized papers has virtually unchecked discretion in addressing potential privilege disputes. the judge was appointed by former president trump and has already indicated that she is leaning toward a special master. now, that was before the explosive brief from the justice department. it laid out the months-long effort by federal investigators to get back the governme...

book. they called the fbis search of mar-a-lago suspect. the trump lawyers showed the lawyers from the department of justice, because trump is no longer president he had no right to take those documents. they also defended their search as being completely lawful. now, one of trumps lawyers was saying they should have a special master to try to restore order and public trust and to lower the temperature in the nation to kind of take some of this heat off. now, the judge had asked questi...

hard virtual learning was, math and reading scores plummeting to their lowest levels in decades. ♪ ♪ welcome to "the lead." im kaitlan collins in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and the florida courtroom showdown unfold thing afternoon over the classified documents found at trumps mar-a-lago home. the hearing ended a little over an hour ago, with no immediate decision from the judge on whether or not to appoint a special master in the case. a special master would...

himes, a member of the house intelligence committee, says thats not the only potential risk here. >> the affidavit contains all sorts of information, including testimony by informants, witnesses, and others that, now that we know that not just donald trump, but the republican party generally, will make threats, include threats on the lives of people, including fbi agents that are involved here, theres an awful lot of risk. >> so it would be unsealed or could be kept seal, but there is ...

insight into former president trumps strategy in this ongoing back and forth over the documents kept at mar-a-lago. and the legal advice and from whom hes getting from conservative activist tom fitton. one person close to the former president said once trump took fittons advice, quote, it was all downhill from there. this was sources tell cnn trump and his allies have become increasingly concerned about the potential legal implications from all this. plus, president biden fresh off wha...

fired back calling it racist. >> dana: president biden staying silent on the fentanyl. 300 people a day die. >> that is expected to get worse. fentanyl seizures at the border continue to double year-over-year. peter doocy brought it up in yesterdays briefing but according to the white house everything is just fine. >> 300 overdoses a day now. we know fentanyl is coming in the sfwoo* the country across the southern border. >> we are securing the border. we have record levels of funding ...