judge to hold trump s office in contempt for not complying with that may subpoena. as we reported at the end of the last hour, the judge ultimately did not grant doj s request. the special master review of the documents seized at mar-a-lago, which trump had fought for, was officially brought to an ed, kaput. mike flynn became the latest in a long line to testify before a grand jury in the fulton county, georgia, criminal investigation. the ex-president now facing a reckoning with the rule of law. trump s hope to use the afterglow of the presidency to buy immunity is not yet crushed, but it s not holding up either. the mar-a-lago investigation is unfolding. other legal actions against trump continue. and a new york jury has now convicted trump s company of crimes on the basis of evidence that in some cases literally bore his signature.
mar-a-lago. the search warrant that they got, that the department of justice got was just from mar-a-lago and this, i believe, tells us that they re continuing to talk about other places where documents might be. i also think that this news about wanting to hold the office in contempt tells us that trump s lawyers are coming against some of their own limits as officers of the court because it seems that the department of justice has been asking them to designate a custodian of records and certify that there is nothing else. that everything that the department wants has been turned in. and they are unwilling to do that and that s at the heart of this contempt motion. there are lines that lawyers cannot cross, even when their clients ask them to do that, and i think this is a theme because the other thing that happened
time that takes, my hope is we will emerge a stronger company. we will have to adopt new rules with the trump experience in mind but people s confidence will be restored when they see he s held accountable. trump held himself out as a successful businessman for so many years even though he wasn t. it was all a lie. he s also held himself out as someone that the legal system, especially the criminal justice system can t touch, that, too, is a lie, it s a myth and it s about to be exploded. one can hope. jim, i want to sort of drill down on one of the things joyce mentioned, this mar-a-lago investigation. and i think one of the things that has happened is that people who are not lawyers think they can talk like them and think people like myself, right, we can explain a special technical counsel reg, we can explain probable cause, we can discuss the intersection of an obstruction of justice, it s
political pressure, we re learning about a major new development in the investigation of classified documents taken with him from the white house. cnn political correspondent sara murray has details. a team hired by donald trump s lawyers uncovering two items with classified markings in a storage unit in west palm beach, a source tells cnn. it will provide the feds with the ability to go to court and say we need another search warrant. reporter: those items were immediately turned over to the fbi, the source says. the justice department has had concerns trump is holding onto sensitive government records sincefiding documents marked classified at mar-a-lago in august. it s not a crime, and they should give me immediately back everything that they ve taken from me, because it s mine. reporter: trump s lawyers recently hiring a team to search trump tower, the bedminster golf club, a florida office, a storage unit sources tell cnn. under pressure from an ever growing pile of lega
lawyers and what it could mean for the mar-a-lago investigation that s under way. also tonight top democrats are celebrating senator raphael warnock s re-election in georgia. feeling embold pd by winning an outright majority. meanwhile republicans are wrapping up their game with one republican senator calling trump s endorsement the, quote, kiss of death. in eastern ukraine as russia launches a new barrages of attacks. cnn is near the front lines with an exclusive look at surgeons saving the lives of wounded ukrainian soldiers. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. tonight as former president trump facing mounting legal and