granted the request from donald trump to appoint, but she s giving until friday for a list of names of people who can serve in that role who have security clearance because hundreds of the documents are classified as we know. right now s a pause until the special master finishes the review. we had a sense of it with the number of vumts. this politically is a win for the president, no? absolutely this is a political win. donald trump is getting almost everything that he has asked for in this. and in her court filing data, the judge points out the extraordinary nature of this. here s what she wrote. as a function of plaintiff s former position as president of the united states, the stigma associated with the subject seizure is in a league of its own, a future indictment based on any degree would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude. this is the former president of the united states who s not ruled out another run. the judge is taking anoth
the justice department is considering its next steps after a federal judge today granted former president trump s request for that independent special master. judge aileen cannon who trump nominated to the bench said a third party is needed to review the items that the fbi seized from mar-a-lago. the doj is looking into whether the former president improperly kept classified and top secret documents at his florida estate. joins me now is cnn s sara murray and cara skinnal. walk us through the ruling? she s cited a number of reasons for why she feels the special master is necessary. she said there are swirling allegations of bias and media leaks and pointed to trump s individual interest in and need for this seized property and pointed to two instances where the investigative team was exposed to material that was later deemed potentially privileged so essentially saying we need more than just the filter team in place to ensure that the former president s rights are being pro
and out of control, a wildfire in new york to more than 100 million people under heat alerts in the u.s.. where was donald trump, and what was he doing before 187 minutes as rioters stormed the u.s. capitol, forced the 2020 election certification to stop, and hunted for vice president mike pence? well, that was the question the january six committee took great pains to answer in thursday night s primetime hearing, according to sworn testimony by numerous insiders, trump had become irate when the secret service refused to and go to the capital. he then spent most of the next three hours as a private dining room watching the chaotic scenes on tv, and refusing pleas from everyone around him to end the violence. his closest advisers testified they never saw or heard trump summon help from any federal agency, listen to this. are you aware of any phone call by the president of united states to the secretary of defense that day? not that i m aware of, no. are you aware of any
the conversations, the chaos in the west wing that day. things we had never heard and things we had never seen. just a few of the new developments. testimony that trump never made a single call to law enforcement or to the pentagon. testimony that the security detail for vice president pence was calling loved ones, worried they wouldn t make it out alive. testimony that trump initially resisted using the word peace while tweeting about the riot while it was happening. audio of rioters interpreting trump s tweet in realtime seeming to suggest it gave them a green light to attack the capitol. and, quote, mike pence let me down. those were the last five words that an aide heard trump say that day before he left the west wing to go to the residence for the night. nothing about the attack according to the committee, just his grievances with mike pence. and one of the most revealing moments of the hearing, the committee showed outtakes from the speech that the former president
people were genuinely freaked out inside the west wing. people who are now downplaying the hearings, they were freaked out that day because of what the committee laid out last night. nothing that he saw changed trump s perspective of what happened. they were shocked when they heard that, shocked it exists, that the recordings of it existed, and it was just some of the compelling testimony we heard last night. and in some cases laid out some new details. also words from the former president himself, including he said, mike pence let me down. those were the last five words that an aide heard trump say that day, before he left the west wing to go to the residence for the night. nothing about the attack, according to the committee, just his grievances with mike pence. here is a review of some of the hearing s most notable moments. the president wanted to lead 10,000 people to the capitol. i think that was enough grounds for us to are you aware of any phone call by the p