united states and the public. whether trump broke the law by having classified documents at mar-a-lago, the heart of that investigation had the former president suggesting yet another new argument about presidential powers and declassifying documents. you re the president of of the united states. you can declassify by thinking about it. the doj ruling came hours after that other legal blow for trump. the 222-page lawsuit by the new york attorney general that charges him, don j, eric and ivanka with widespread fraud and ul legal practices that could threatenen the exist tense of the family business. i want to bring in devlin barrett from the washington post. he wrote about this story today. paul butler is a former prosecutor, professor at georgetown school of law. and olivia troy served as former koubt terrorism adviser to mike pence. so paul, the appellate court said the judge wasn t wrong on some of the points. they went point by point by point and said she was basical
stashed at his retirement home in mar-a-lago. a federal appeals court, just before we went to air, just ruled in favor of the justice department. the justice department can have access to roughly 100 highly sensitive classified documents that were taken from mar-a-lago. immediately we saw the appeals court issue this ruling. i was stunned to see it come out so quickly. it s worth taking a step back and recognizing just how extraordinary this moment, this day is. it was almost easy to forget that trump had never actually been indicted. never been sued, you know, by the state entity or anything like that, but today, things look different. that is where we pick things up this morning, on top of the legal setbacks from donald trump comes news from the january 6th committee that the wife of supreme court justice, ginni thomas has agreed to meet with the committee about her efforts to overturn the 2020 election. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it s thursday, joe and m
it is a done deal, billionaire elon musk completing his $44 billion takeover of twitter. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt this morning. good morning. good morning. john berman is off. and according to sources, musk immediately fired twitter s ceo, the chief financial officer and the company s top lawyer. musk first agreed to buy the company in april, then he spent months trying to get out of the deal, which was finalized just before today s deadline. musk attempted to reassure advertisers, posting an open letter on twitter why he bought the platform, saying, quote, there is currently great danger that social media will fracture into far right and far left wings that will splinter our society and overnight he tweeted the bird is free. reporter: there is a lot of uncertainty at twitter. employees aren t sure what to expect after musk came in, took control and fired the top executives. unclear who the top team is, maybe employees will learn more at an all-hands mee
announce another big interest rate hike spurring fears of a recession. hello, and welcome. it s wednesday, september 21st. 9 a.m. here in london. 11 a.m. in moscow where we re following a potentially drastic escalation of russia s war on ukraine. vladimir putin is ordering a partial mobilization to boost his military fight. the russian president says it begins today. those in the reserve and with previous military experience will be subject to it. cnn s covering the story from every angle. we re joined in london and nick peyton walsh is standing by. nick, to you first. this announcement of a move, partial prescription isn t entirely unexpected given the losses we re seeing russia suffer on the battlefield. what does this mean? reporter: what s startling is how fast this will go into action but i think it s fair to say relatively limited. for 12 hours we have been awaiting really a speech from the kremlin head and talk had been possibly he might call for mass mobilization
is a partial mobilization. putin also made an ominous pledge to use all means to, in his words, defend his country. translator: this is not a bluff. the citizens of russia can be sure that the territorial integrity of our homeland, independence and freedom will be ensured and those that try to black mail us with nuclear weapons should know that the prevailing winds can turn in their direction. reporter: putin s rare national address comes amid a fierce counter offensive from ukraine s forces and the kremlin-backed push for referendums that could lead to moscow annexing occupied parts of ukraine. let s go to cnn s international security editor nick peyton walsh. nick, a partial mobilization. i mean, this sounds pretty drastic but could putin have gone even further? reporter: yes, certainly could have. this is not the mass mobilization which many during the 12-hour delay before the speech came out this morning were thinking might have been on the cards. he is, it seems,