primetime address on threats to american democracy, and what the white house is calling a battle for the soul of the nation. this hour, house minority leader kevin mccarthy is already in california and set to make his own remarks, slamming joe biden for calling some americans semi fascist. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off. i m pamela brown, and you are in the situation room. our top story tonight, a hearing on former president trump s request for a special master has just concluded without a ruling. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez is tracking the mar-a-lago investigation. so both sides were battling it out in court, but as of tonight, no decision from the judge. give us the latest. reporter: that s right. judge eileen cannon says she s not ruling today, not immediately at least, but she seems inclined to grant former president trump s request for a
broken through a few russian lines and have taken back in a few places but we haven t seen anything wholesale yet, but nobody is expecting it was going to happen in two or three days. this is going to take weeks or months or even longer. pentagon correspondent for the new york times, helene cooper, thank you very much for being on this morning. it is 3 minutes past the top of the hour. we turn back now to the major developments in the legal fight over the classified documents seized from mar-a-lago, and new missteps from trump and his legal team. today, a judge is expected to make a decision on whether to grant donald trump s request for a certainly master. overnight, trump s legal team responded to the department of justice s latest filing on the classified documents seized during the fbi search of mafrlg. in the 18-page filing trump s lawyers suggested by launching
on his floor. it s ridiculous. i can tell you personally, it s ridiculous. i ve never seen that. that is one of the dumbest things i ve ever heard in my life. i mean there is literally an fbi exhibit that says 2 a, anybody that s ever seen one episode of law and order knows they get evidence, they put it out, they take pictures of the evidence, on the floor. everybody knows that. is this, i m sorry, but i know you re a reporter, you can t say this, i just asked the rhetorical question, is this really what trump s defenders have been reduced to? and she says guests frequently visit that very office. great. i mean, yes, i mean the idea though that people saw this picture, thinking that donald trump left those on the floor, of course, nobody thought that at all. again, they re desperately
sloppily thrown on the floor. and that agents quote took them out of cartons and spread hem around on the carpet. that goes against his previous arguments that the documents may have been planted. that they were professional stored under lock and tree. and it contradicts the sworn letter that everything had been returned to the government. and in another attempt to defend the tidiness of the mar-a-lago office, one of donald trump s attorneys made a surprising admission last night. did the fbi do that? or was that the way that room looked before they went in there? do you have any first-hand knowledge. i m sure you ve seen the press today. i do have first-hand knowledge as you know. i ve been down there, down there frequently, i have never seen that, i have never, ever seen. that that is not how his office looks. anybody who knows president trump s office, he has guests frequently there, it is just a joke, they literally must have
saying, suggesting the fbi came in and put the evidence on the floor of his office and messed up his office and took pictures so we would think that s, you know, that s how he left it. just for donald trump to know, when he sees murder scenes, on television, and there s yellow tape there, nobody thinks the yellow tape around the body to show where the body was, was left by the murderer. that s what the police and the fbi do when they show up. okay? so there s an overarching it doesn t work. problem here. and the responsibility for the d.o.j. is a top secret classified document, if they were mishanled or removed from the government, from the white house, from the very safe locations that they are stored, there is a responsibility really