members of brittney griner and paul whelan are set to meet with president biden. and i ll meet with former ambassador brown as the line extends for more than five miles wanting to pay their respects to queen elizabeth. and the prince and princess of wales today before the funeral. good district attorney i m andrea mitchell in washington. where merrick garland s justice department lost all requests to a florida judge to allow them to continue using classified documents seized at mar-a-lago for now. this will delay the criminal investigation. judge aileen cannon handing mr. trump another legal victory by putting a especially master in charge of the documents. judge raymond dearie, a senior judge from new york, respected by both sides, will have until november 30th to sift through thousands of papers to determine if any documents are privileged. meanwhile, the former president is predicting trouble if he s indicted. i think if it happened, i think you d have problems in th
the news continues. was handed over to the next level. transparency. that is a word you are hearing a lot from the former president and his allies in the wake of the fbi search of his former home. he is calling for the unredacted affidavit used to justify the search to be released. but his interest in transparency does not seem to extend to testifying. lindsey graham is trying to dodge a subpoena to appear before the special grand jury investigating republican efforts to under overturn these election results. refusing to put on hold their own ruling that the senator must appear. but he s also filed an emergency request with the court of appeals for the 11th circuit asking them to put the subpoena on hold running it up the chain. talk about transparency. a federal appeals court ruling today said the doj has to make public that internally legal memo that was pushed by william barr. do you remember the one that he had to analyze whether not he should charge the then president wi
initial recovery on mar-a-lago said that archives officials believed that more records were missing and were skeptical that trump had handed over everything. as the investigation gained steam, some trump advisors have sought to steer away from the issue according to people who were speaking under anonymity. now you have to fast forward to june 3rd, bob, the trump attorney says the trump s team met with a doj official after they cooperated with presidential records in a storage wear and handed over, quote, a few pages to the doj. multiple sources have confirmed to nbc news that monday s unprecedented search was related, classified material that trump brought with limb to florida after he left the white house. two sources say the search went from 9:00 a.m. to half past 6:00 and that the fbi took about a dozen, a dozen more boxes with emthis. a lot of boxes. think, as much as we ve learned there are still major questions outstanding, for instance, what exactly what was the fbi l
shouldn t have triggered an fbi search. let s go the evan perez this morning. good morning, erica. the trump team largely ignores a lot of the allegations that the justice department made in its bombshell filing a couple nights ago. they are saying it should not have been a surprise that there were classified documents found at mar-a-lago. they were considered personal and presidential records. i will read you part of what they say in the court fueliling. that the records contain sensitive information should never have been cause for alarm. they re saying that the justice department cannot be trusted to just look through the documents and sort out what may be presidential privilege, executive privilege, or at attorney/client privilege. they want to appoint a special master to look at the documents and set aside the things that may be considered privileged. so, we expect that this judge is going to take a look at this filing and really maybe ask some questions about what the
thirds of the vote, and this was a seat cheney won by more than 70% two years ago during her concession speech, cheney, who is vice chair of the january six committee, said she could have easily won a gain, but that would ve meant embracing trump s lie about the 2020 election. and that was a path she could not take. wyoming voters punished her for that stance. this is a fight for all of us together. i am a conservative republican. i believe deeply in the principles and ideals upon which my party was founded. i love it s. history and i love what our party has stood for. but i love my country more. wyoming has drawn a line in the sand, that if we put you in power, you will be accountable to us. you will answer to us. and you will do what is in our best interest. and if you don t, we will fire you. cheney warned freedom must and cannot die, and we must be very clear eyed about the threat we face. direct words there. cnn s jeff zeleny was there, and has this report from jac