surveillance video of the actual fbi search of his home. now, in a separate case, moments ago, allen weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of trump s family business, he pleaded guilty to a 15-year tax fraud scheme. we ll have more on that in just a moment. let s begin with katelyn polantz. katelyn, set the scene for us here. reporter: this afternoon, kate, we re going to be listening for justice department prosecutors and how much they re willing to say about this ongoing investigation into the handling of classified material, potentially kept at mar-a-lago after the trump presidency. it is going to be about this affidavit, but this say court hearing over secrecy. the justice department says that this is a serious ongoing criminal investigation. it implicates highly classified materials, and that they need protections of confidentiality to keep their investigation going, to keep doing the work that they need to do to decide whether there should be a charge here.
hard virtual learning was, math and reading scores plummeting to their lowest levels in decades. welcome to the lead. i m kaitlan collins in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and the florida courtroom showdown unfold thing afternoon over the classified documents found at trump s mar-a-lago home. the hearing ended a little over an hour ago, with no immediate decision from the judge on whether or not to appoint a special master in the case. a special master would be a third party attorney put in charge of reviewing the evidence seized from trump s florida home, his newest lawyer in his first appearance as part of the legal team today argued a special master is needed to restore order and lower the temperature in the nation. and another trump attorney compared the battle over the classified documents to a dispute over an overdue library book. let s get straight to our reporter in florida. tell us more about what arguments these lawyers were making, but a
tomorrow to make the affidavit public. with the latest, fox news contributor jonathan turley and ticket for being here thank you for being here. we could get the rejected affidavit at any moment and we were preparing on the show, will we be waiting until noon and what do you think we will see? weed could be waiting until noon and i must admit i m skeptical that it s the same department not a single word of the redacted of the affidavit should be released. on the first attempt they were able to miraculously hit the goldilocks point of getting it just right because it appears that the judge did not push back on any sections. for those of us who have litigated against this department over and over reductions and classifications, there is a certain degree of skepticism that left to its own devices, they maximize what could be released. i m grateful that something will be released. i m hoping truly that attorney general garland saw the earlier position was wrong and he went and
transparency on the f.b.i. raid of former president trump s estate in florida as we learn more about what took agents what the agents took during the search. we have a hint for you. it was a lot. we say good morning. i m bill hemmer. good morning. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. that was a good hint. good job. bill: andy mccarthy did great reporting over the weekend how many documents were taken and how many considered classified and how many were we re legally allowed to take this box and that box and they got a lot. dana: we have a little more information. f.b.i. documents say that agent seized 11 sets of classified documents. one was marked top secret sensitive compartmented information. four top secret, three marked secret and three confidential. also taken the order granting clemency for roger stone and multiple binders of photos. bill: some of the records seized are covered by attorney/client privilege and a growing number of republican
all around the world. it is wednesday, may 25th. i m john berman live in uvalde, texas. brianna keilar is in new york this morning. behind me is the robb elementary school. 19 children who went to school here are dead this morning, along with two adults. the kids second, third, fourth graders. we ve just learned the identity of two of the young victims, 10-year-old amerie jo garza has been identified by her father who spent seven hours trying to find his daughter in the wake of the shooting. he now says my little love is flying high with the angels above. we just learned that 10-year-old fourth grader xavier lopez passed away. his mother snapped this photo of him at an honor roll ceremony only a few hours before the shooting. she told the washington post he was funny, never serious, and his smile, that smile, i will never forget. it would always cheer anyone up. he really couldn t wait to go to middle school. she told him she was proud and that she loved him before hugging