were appointed by trump, said the justice department can resume its review of classified documents taken from mar-a-lago. the judges also called out the claims that the former president may have declassified documents that were seized pointing out there s no proof. this appeals court decision is one of two major legal blows for the former president in a single day. the new york attorney general filed a lawsuit against trump, his family and firm alleging wi wide-ranging fraud involving some of his properties and other assets. evan perez joins us now. evan, you have some new details. the special master, the independent oversear of the evidence, is putting some pressure on the trump team. explain. yeah, just in the past hour we have an order from raymond dearie, the senior judge serve agz the independent third party that is going to look through these 11,000 pages of documents. remember, this is something that donald trump himself and his lawyers had asked for. and now he is s
pro punishing protesters forcing some to fight in the very war they want to stop. and crisis of democracies, a warning to the world from french president macron, and his message to donald trump after being wrapped up in the mar-a-lago case. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. and we begin with our politics lead. and just in, special master of the trump mar-a-lago documents case opens the door to hearing witness testimony. this, coming after yet another legal defeat for former president donald trump. three judges from the 11th circuit court of appeals unanimously reversed district judge aleene cannon s decision. three-judge panel, one obama and three trump appointees. a special master s review of that subset, about 100 records is now partially stopped after judge cannon amended her ruling today. and just a short time ago, a special master deliver a new order to trump s legal team to prove one notable aspect in the former president s public claims. an in
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a movement began it to abolish police departments nationwide, all of this has unfolded in the twin cities peered at the numbers don t lie, assault, burglary, property destruction, motor vehicle theft, spiking, all of them in minneapolis over the past year. and, while homicide may have dipped in the past year, which is good news. the city is now seeing an increase in murders over just the past two years, three years. going right back up again. despite the grim numbers, far left democratic congress woman ilhan omar, controversy at times, who just snuck out a win, her district includes part of minneapolis, and continues to push the defund police a gender. that is coming from her. not only do we need to defund but we need to dismantle and start a new. so we must continue to hold people accountable that want a certain system to fully function for certain people, and completely have at dis- interest in that system functioning for the rest of us. but we do need to completely dis
stashed at his retirement home in mar-a-lago. a federal appeals court, just before we went to air, just ruled in favor of the justice department. the justice department can have access to roughly 100 highly sensitive classified documents that were taken from mar-a-lago. immediately we saw the appeals court issue this ruling. i was stunned to see it come out so quickly. it s worth taking a step back and recognizing just how extraordinary this moment, this day is. it was almost easy to forget that trump had never actually been indicted. never been sued, you know, by the state entity or anything like that, but today, things look different. that is where we pick things up this morning, on top of the legal setbacks from donald trump comes news from the january 6th committee that the wife of supreme court justice, ginni thomas has agreed to meet with the committee about her efforts to overturn the 2020 election. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it s thursday, joe and m