as vladimir putin announced a major escalation in the war in ukraine. this all happening overnight calling up reservists and threatening a possible nuclear response as he suffers major setbacks on the battlefield, and in the geopolitical landscape. plus, the latest in the trump documents case as it goes before the special master, the former president s attorneys refuse to back up their claim that trump declassified the documents before taking them to his club in florida. we ll have the reaction from the judge and it is quite telling. also, the attorney general of new york is set to make a major aa nounsa-of- announce. we ll discuss what that announcement might be. and new developments in the story of the migrants flown to martha s vineyard with some sent to the massachusetts island now filing a class action lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis. we ll have all of the details on that. with us, host of way too early, jonathan lemire. and former aide of the geo
justice department from getting back to work on more than 100 classified documents. also, in puerto rico, huge search operations happening to try to find trapped survivors after hurricane fiona. things may get worse before they get better. we ve got a team on the ground there with the latest. plus, what went wrong in the agency s response to the baby formula shortage? coming up. a lot of new details for you. i m hallie jackson with vaughn hilliard, tom winter, and msnbc legal analyst, barbara mcquaid. vaughn, i know this has just wrapped up. what went down? reporter: right. both sides just exited the course house seconds before we came to air. as well as the trio of trump attorneys provided no comment but this hearing lasted about 35 minutes rather speedy hearing in which really the central component of the argument at hand. i was talking the andrew weissman as we exited the course house, about whether trump s teams would have access to the documents marked as classif
people spoke about him. donald trump talked endlessly about what a great football player he was and how he would be great candidate and a great u.s. senator and oh, did i mention what great football player herschel walker was? walker himself would make appearances at events and shake hands and occasionally read a short prepared statement about how much he loved america. but even cnn ran a headline last fall that said, herschel walker is often seen and seldom heard. toward the end of last year he went on a radio show. it was friendly territory. conservative host asked walker to let loose on senator warknock, his democratic opponent. and in that moment, we found out exactly why walker s campaign tried to never let him speak. he brings up voting rights, the john lewis voting rights bill. what do you say about rafael trying to push this during this time to try to what i call federalize elections? you know what s sad about that? you use the name of a great man to bring up some
that s unlikely. and i m actually surprised that they even asked for that. it s in one sense, the last thing you want is for this judge to agree, because that would be a transparent moment of bias in favor of president trump, ex-president trump. and if the justice department doesn t like the date that the judge has set, can they appeal to a higher court, or is that the date? well, if she sets a date, it s an unlikely appeal. it s kind of administrative decision that a judge makes in a case that is not subject to appeal. if she says indefinite, even though that s well within her rights to set, you know, to administer the trial, that would be so extraordinary that i would imagine the government would appeal. i don t know whether the court of appeals would do. typically, these things are not within the ken of a court of
defense claims the former president will simply be too busy campaigning or preparing for other cases. it s now up to judge aileen cannon. more on her track record from cnn s jessica schneider. my sincere thanks to the president for the honor of this nomination. reporter: judge cannon owes her nomination to the federal bench to donald trump. and now she is front and center in the former president s legal fight, fighting with trump s team to cite appoint a special master to decide what should be kept offlimits from federal investigators, a decision which is now being appealed and has been criticized. it s really a very pro plaintiff, pro-trump ruling in all respects. reporter: not only by political pundits, but also three judges on the 11th court of appeals, two of them trump appointees who described cannon s initial ruling pausing doj s review of documents marked classified untenable. the 11th circuit ultimately