The Department Reports it has now recovered more than 320 classified documents from mara lago. Prosecutors essay some documents were likely concealed or removed from storage in an effort to obstruct their investigation. The court filing casts serious doubt on a statement by trumps attorneys that all classified material had been returned. The Justice Department also argues that trump lacked legal standing to request a Special Master, since the documents belonged to the government, not to him. The court filing came with this photo, showing documents taken by the fbi, from a container in trumps office. More now from cnns sarah murray. Reporter the Justice Department weighs in with its side of the story of what happened in the runup and aftermath of the search at mar alago. This is all a part of the Court Battle Playing Out over whether there should be a Special Master, an independent third party appointed to review the documents that the fbi sees when they searched maralago. The trump tea
A preliminary intent to allow a neutral third party, typically a retired judge, to review the documents. The former president s attorney claims a Special Master is necessary to ensure the Justice Department returns any of trumps private belongings and documents covered by Attorney Client privilege. But, the Justice Department has indicated it is already using an internal filter team to review everything which was seized by the fbi. For now, cnns Political Correspondent sara murray live now, sara, and broad brushstrokes, when we look at in terms of the spots from the doj . We are looking overall, in terms of the legal argument, the Justice Department opposing with donald trump is looking for, which is a Special Master, an independent third party to overview these documents. The Justice Department is saying look, after the search they did on the president s residence in maralago at august, theyve already gone through those materials. Theyve already had a filter team set up to remove any
Documents at his country club. It comes as trumps legal team picks up a significant win in court. And in uvalde, texas, there is a mix of anxiety and fear for students and staff today as they start a new school year. For some parents, promises of increased security arent enough to send their kids back to class. Good morning. And welcome to Way Too Early. On this tuesday, september 6th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. A riveting new twist this morning, following the fbi search of former president Donald Trumps maralago home in florida. A federal judge has approved a request from trumps attorneys for a Special Master to review the material seized during last months search. Temporarily blocking parts of the justice departments investigation. U. S. District judge cannon, a trump appointee, stated in her ruling yesterday, that the Special Master should be able to review the seized documents to address questions of attorneyclient privilege, and to litigate claims of
all of this. i m going to get to it. i ll see you tomorrow night. thanks. this is don lemon tonight, and i m in orlando florida, and being here, what s really amazing is the amount of water. as i said last night, this has been a water storm. it s all about the water. it s not about the wind. this hurricane dumped so much water on the state of florida. what you see behind me, these trees are usually under water behind me, so people would normally be walking behind me on this path. but now, if you go there, you re at your own risk. the destruction it s caused here is amazing inland, and it didn t even see the worst of hurricane ian. their whole neighbors, homes, everything people had in the world under water right now. also, it s important to talk about the bravery of the first responders risking their own lives, rescuing strangers, some of them people who stayed in their homes that were at risk. i went out on a small boat with orange county fire and rescue today. we talked wit
robinson, and u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. since we went off the air together outside buckingham palace yesterday, some extraordinary scenes at that committal service at windsor castle west of the city here for the queen as she was lowered into that vault and then the private ceremony last night for the family. some of the headlines in london, a look at the morning papers, until we meet again a shot of the corgis saying good-bye to the queen. it s always tough on the dogs to say good-bye. i thought the ceremony was the most moving of the day. just before the committal of the coffin that somehow as they were singing the anthem god save the king and the camera panned to king charles iii, it felt like in that moment, it hit him. his mother is gone, he is the monarch, and the country turns its eyes to him. it was an extraordinary day, wasn t it, the pomp and pageantry, and also moments of emotion for a family that is just a family in some ways, grievi