putin meets. ukraine is turning the tide in the war and taking key territory. first, 20 hours that matter a whole lot, very lot to your life. the biden white house has a deal in place to avert a major rail strike. the 20 hours of negotiations included a call from president biden, who reportfully sided with union real workers. amtrak is scrambling to get back on the rails trains its canceled as it anticipated the strike. the president holding a rose garden event to savor the moment. it would have meant shortages of key goods and price spikes on everything from gas to key groceries and more. every good you need, is delivered on a rail where it needs to go. today is a win, i mean this sincerely, a win for america. straight to the white house. k walk us through how this happened. reporter: it s not only a big win for president biden but a big relief for the white house, who thought economic consequences would look severe. had they not gone to the deadline on friday. that
return dozens of highly classified documents, this despite several requests over several months. the justice department also released its most visual piece of evidence and you re looking at it, that is a photo showing documents with the highest classification markings laid out there by the fbi, officials say those documents were recovered from a container that trump kept at his mar-a-lago home. since january, the u.s. government has recovered more than 320 classified documents from mar-a-lago. the justice department says three of those classified documents were not in boxes in that storage facility. they were actually found in former president trump s desk. so let s begin this morning with all of that news and this stunning filing from the doj, with our correspondent kara scannell. this is why doj needed 40 pages. they needed twice what the court said they could have because they had to apparently lay all of this out. yeah, good morning, jim and poppy. part of the objecti
subpoena and finally a search, investigators have retrieved 48 boxes including at least 320 classified documents, including 72 marked confidential, 108 secret, and 42 top secret. now, the filing as one former top fbi official puts it obliterates claims that the fo former president and his lawyers had been cooperating and negotiating in good faith to return the records. okay. so let s lay out the time line for you. the national archives had been working for months to get all of these missing records from trump even while he was in office. in january of this year, they finally got 15 boxes of records that trump had taken with him to mar-a-lago, though they did not belong to him. once the national archives saw the reckless way trump had handled so much sensitive information, they contacted the doj for help getting other classified documents back that were still missing. according to this filing, one of the most significant concerns was that highly classified records were unfol
plus, day three without water in jackson, mississippi. and the situation is so bad, the hospital does not have air conditioning. but one part of a temporary fix has arrived. welcome to the lead. i m cakasie hunt in for jake tapper. donald trump s legal team is on the clock. they have under four hours to submit their response to a scathing court filing from the department of justice which accused the former president of pushing a, quote, incomplete and inaccurate narrative about the fbi raid at mar-a-lago. the d orc j went on to make an even more damning assertion that it has proof that documents were moved from a storage room at the florida resort and possibly hidden in an effort to obstruct the fbi s investigation. the doj also filing included a signed letter from a trump lawyer swearing no classified documents were left at the former pred s home. that we now know was a lie. given that fbi teams seized more than 100 documents from mar-a-lago during the august search. c
former president donald trump s rally in the keystone state where he lashed out again at the fbi over the search of his mar-a-lago home calling agents vicious monsters and labeling president biden an enemy of the state. one congresswoman, also a member of the january 6th committee, said the former president s remarks are also potentially incitement. meantime, one of the busiest travel weekends of the year lives up to the billing. hundreds of flight delays, thousands of cancellations as more than 12 million americans to travel over the labor day weekend. let s head to milwaukee with omar jimenez is expecting president biden s arrival there today. what can we expect in terms of the president s message? reporter: it s labor day in america and the white house says president biden will be celebrating the dignity of american workers when he gets here to milwaukee. labor day marks the unofficial start to crunch time leading up to election day. this is a state that president bi