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
Get the help, became a loaner, and then found a cause. He found a father in trump. We must unify as a nation. We have seen an effort by the media in recent hours to use the sinister actions of one individual to score political points against me. Calling them enemies of the people, and then suddenly pretending that youre concerned about civility. Come on. Good saturday morning to you, after a fourday nationwide manhunt, federal agents say they have arrested the map who sent more than a man who sent more than a dozen mail bombs to prominent democratic figures and trump critics. 56yearold cesar sayoc told investigators he didnt want to hurt anyone but the fbi director says under the right conditions these packages could have gone off. Todays arrest doesnt mean we are all out of the woods. There may be other packages in transit now. Well, the two most recent packages were sent to democratic senator Kamala Harris and democratic donor tom stier and that brings the total number of mail bombs
behave, he is not completely being true to himself, and that s why you have this constant conflict in the way the president behaves. it is in his interest to get republican base voters enthusiastic and angry, in the last nine days before the midterm elections. and calls to unity probably don t do that. margaret pointed out it will interesting to see how he goes forward from this point. margaret pointed out midterms are base elections. we saw that sayoc is a trump supporter but when you look at the five charges he is facing, how central to making the case is his political ideology? so at this point, what all law enforcement officers had to do was come up enough charges, even one charge, to put him behind bars, initially, to bring him into custody. they have done that. we have seen the initial charges, of course, threatening
immigration announcement he will have next week but despite calling on americans to come together, victor and christie, the president is showing no signs of letting up on the intensity of his rhetoric head nag the last week before election day. when the president was asked if he should tone down, he said he actually could tone up. we will see if he does that over the next ten days. sara westwood for us at the white house, thanks so much. we want it talk about the investigation into the packages and what comes next as well. cnn white house reporter steven colinson and cnn analyst josh campbell and margaret talab, senior white house correspondent for bloomberg. thank you all for being here. we appreciate it. absolutely. josh, we know the dna fingerprints, we know that pings from the cell phone tower led authorities to this auto parts store parking lot in south florida. what do we know about what investigators are doing today with that, that van, because if that is where he was living
russian billionaire private briefings on president 16 campaign. investigators think his e-mail showed he wanted to profit from his role to the trump campaign. bloomberg politics reporter margaret talab spoke to trump s lawyer, ty cobb, who said, it would be truly shocking if manafort trying to monetize az relationship with the wpreside . president. a manafort spokesman quoted saying it s unclear if manafort was the objective, perhaps the real objective was donald trump. tonight we also have a new bit of information from politico, it reports that mueller requested the phone records having to do with a flight on air force one, you may recall this, a flight to the u.s. coming home from that european summit. it was on that flight a statement was crafted explaining why don jr. allowed this meeting of russians at trump tower. the statement was more of a