mississippi. a trump appointed federal judge has indicated that she is likely to grant a request from his legal team to appoint a special master to review evidence of the search of the mar-a-lago estate. a hearing for a final decision is scheduled for thursday. the application for a special master is seen by many legal experts as having no benefit and possibly a delaying tactic. and an advisory will be made on the possible risks of nag at security. michael cohen has more on that. reporter: new developments this weekend in the investigation of donald trump s handling or possible mishandling of classified documents. the top u.s. intelligence official says intel agencies are conducting a damage assessment of the documents that trump took with him when the white house to mar-a-lago. the director of national intelligence told u.s. lawmakers in a letter that her team and justice department are reviewing the materials recovered from mar-a-lago to see what is still classified. sh
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the number of illegal immigrants coming in. they are from 150 different countries. listen to this. the current secretary mayorkas he was part of dhs before. he was ran cis. he clearly understands and knows how to control the border and what needs to take place. the result of that as the message goes out and instead of having a couple of hundred encounters a day. we quickly went up to about 6,000 encounters a day. border patrol caught over caught people from 150 different countries coming through mexico into the united states this last year before i retired. 150 different countries. different countries. bret: coming through the border? correct. how big a national security threat is it that border. that big issue. football paivelgly pray over here and the real play is going to the left. so when we get distracted with 15 to 20,000 haitians under a bridge. that resulted in several hundred miles of border having no border
administration s now? the real thing that s changed is the focus on border security in general and acknowledging that border security is critical to homeland security and actually trying to control the border. the messaging has changed. i personally participated in some of the transition meetings. my staff participated in all of the transition meetings. we made it very clear that if we dropped all of the initiatives that had been put in place over the last several years, that we would get an influx of mass migration that we would not be able to control. the current secretary mayorkas he was part of dhs before. he was ran cis. he clearly understands and knows how to control the border and what needs to take place. bret: so if that s all true, then what s the motivation, do you think? that s where you get into politics. i m not going to speculate on what anyone s motivation is but i do know that they were briefed. it was very clear. there are people involved in this process that have
standard of pope francis and i think that this is a pope that is, you know, a pius pope, a peoples pope and the fact this is no longer acceptable for the archbishop of atlanta i think just really kind of speaks volumes in the way that people are measuring the message of pope francis today. okay. coming up, a wish list and the nation s hottest politician. the big three s must read sunday next. [announcer] if your dog can dream it,