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book. they called the fbi s 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 trump s 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 questions of both sides and asked them what would a special master do at this point since the government had a filter team go through this, but she also said it is not entirely settled law that a former president can t claim privilege after leaving office. she kind of left it as an open question. she did previously say she was leaning toward appointing a special master. this was the first time we heard from both sides in court staking out their positions. we learned more information there were ....
primetime address on threats to american democracy, and what the white house is calling a battle for the soul of the nation. this hour, house minority leader kevin mccarthy is already in california and set to make his own remarks, slamming joe biden for calling some americans semi fascist. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off. i m pamela brown, and you are in the situation room. our top story tonight, a hearing on former president trump s request for a special master has just concluded without a ruling. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez is tracking the mar-a-lago investigation. so both sides were battling it out in court, but as of tonight, no decision from the judge. give us the latest. reporter: that s right. judge eileen cannon says she s not ruling today, not immediately at least, but she seems inclined to grant former president trump s request for a special master, a third party, to review some of the ....
Leader kevin mccarthy, there s a lot in the balance. he has his eye on the speaker s gavel. depending on how things shake out, that will affect his chances and what kind of margin flun republicans might have if they take back the house. for a long time, it was expected they would have a massive victory. now it appears that may not be the case, that it might be a smaller margin of victory, as democrats have made some progress and the abortion issue has really fired up lot of democrats. again, pamela, what we expect to hear tonight is mccarthy setting the tone for what is to come in the months ahead as we go to the midterms. the house leader and the president are in pennsylvania tonight. that is no coincidence, right? reporter: that s right, that s right. that s exactly right. we are told that mccarthy has done 20 states in the last month, this is his 21st state. we re right here outside of scranton, joe biden s hometown. and that message is implicit. ....
Midterms that are coming later this fall. the minority leader i m told has been on a tour of about 20 states, this will be his 21st state in the month of august. he s been trying to get around as they really try to make the case to voters to give them back control of the house. he certainly is going to be making that case tonight, really trying to draw quite a contrast between what the president will be talking about and what he and republicans want to be talking about heading into the fall against some of these key issues. he also in the press release that kind of previewed this speech, they said they believed that the president would be disparaging hardworking americans. that s kind of the line of thinking that we re going to be hearing from leader mccarthy later tonight. of course this all comes as i mentioned, republicans are trying to win back both the house and the senate, but particularly in the house, of course it s high-stakes for minority leader kevin mccarthy because he has ....
We banning the theory from being taught in school saying students should learn about american exceptionalism rather than divisive topics, tennessee is the fourth state to ban the controversial topic joining arkansas, oklahoma and idaho. texas is one signature from being able to carry handguns, governor avedon what they, strongest second amendment bill in state history. firearms reporter and founder of the reload human capacity here to react, thanks for being here. this is the largest, is that correct? absolutely right. the 21st state to institute the kind of policy. it is extremely recent too, they have that. let s take a look at the bill ....