allowed the doj to continue its probe into the handling of classified material while the special master reviewed thousands of other documents. judge cannon also ruled that trump did not have to officially declare in court whether fbi agents planted items at mar-a-lago, something trump and his al plies have repeatedly said in public. the special master had requested trump prove hiss claims, but cannon stepped in and stopped it. judge cannon has not responded to cnn s request for comment on her decisions, but when asked in 2020 during her confirmation if she had any discussions about royalty to president trump, she unequivocally wrote no. do you think she has any bias toward trump? i don t think she has any bias at all. reporter: jason mendra worked with cannon a decade ago. we never talked about politics or judicial philosophy because it wasn t relevant to what we were doing. i still don t know anything about her politics today. reporter: she wasn t overtly political? no.