money, if you re not guilty? plus back last, 1,300 plus russians wind up in handcuffs after protesting vladimir putin s decision to call up more troops and plunge russia deeper into war in ukraine. and democrats struggling on capitol hill to secure legislation to fund police. we re within 50 days of the midterms, that s enough to counter a republican onslaught on crime. an unprovoked attack, the victim left in a coma, the attacker free within days. law enforcement called the law dangerous and insane. in congress, riley s agenda will be their agenda, they want to defund the police, even as crime rages out of control across the state. up first, donald trump and the law. two major new setbacks for the former president. last hour the judge presiding over the mar-a-lago documents case aileen cannon admitting she was wrong. the new writing comes a morning after the federal appeals court panel, that included two trump appointees, said that cannon was wrong. that giving the j
documents that they re usually k kept under lock and key. the appeals court said the trump team s claims that the documents weren t declassified like this one if you re the president of the united states you can declassify anything you want. you can declassify it by saying it or thinking it because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever you re sending it. there doesn t have to be a process. the ruling came on the heals of a civil suit filed against donald trump and his family and business, the suit alleges a quarter billion dollars in financial fraud. we ll show you the stunning moment when trump didn t deny that key allegation. cnn senior legal analyst ellie honig is here to break down all of this. fill us in. a big win for doj they have their classified documents back. this started about two weeks ago when the district judge presiding over the case said ye we are going to have a special master. doj did not want that, they objected, they lost. the way this was g
pro punishing protesters forcing some to fight in the very war they want to stop. and crisis of democracies, a warning to the world from french president macron, and his message to donald trump after being wrapped up in the mar-a-lago case. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. and we begin with our politics lead. and just in, special master of the trump mar-a-lago documents case opens the door to hearing witness testimony. this, coming after yet another legal defeat for former president donald trump. three judges from the 11th circuit court of appeals unanimously reversed district judge aleene cannon s decision. three-judge panel, one obama and three trump appointees. a special master s review of that subset, about 100 records is now partially stopped after judge cannon amended her ruling today. and just a short time ago, a special master deliver a new order to trump s legal team to prove one notable aspect in the former president s public claims. an in
and for some reason we welcome back mike baker. let s hope he can complete a sentence using only 50 ums in 24 groans. when you need a coherent thought and 24 hours, don t call him. all right. ever since joe biden s speech from the innermost circle of hell, i ve been think about the future of this country. not that he ate fiber before boarding the roller coaster at six flags. it s the extreme maga republican who apparently number in the dozens or perhaps millions. we really never get a head count on the threat. we are not even sure they have heads. the vagueness of the threat certainly is convenient mainly because it s hard to count something that doesn t really exist. unlike the persistent and violent crime we now experience everything the day across this country. oddly none of that is caused by people in red hats. extreme maga aren t like sheep. you can t count them to fall asleep because there s really not enough of them. for a democrat it s best never to know how truly big
we begin this hour with a slew of legal setbacks for former president trump including the new orders by the special master he requested. let s go right to our justice correspondent jessica schneider. the special master is call out the public claim that the fbi planted evidence at mar-a-lago. he is, wolf. now that special master wants trump s teams to back up those out of court claims that the fbi planted evidence at mar-a-lago and he wants it in a sworn declaration by the end of this month. it s an accusation that trump and his allies have repeatedly made and now the special master wants proof plus the special master is saying he may end up calling witnesses at some point to explain what certain documents are if there s a dispute. all of this as the justice department notched a big win in the ongoing court fight over classified documents. the justice department is once again digging into 100 classified documents that fbi agents seized from mar-a-lago. i think they want to