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to school for the first time since the shooting massacre. still fearful and anxious despite new moves to try to help them feel safe. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, as the search for a special master begins, the decision to give former president trump what he wanted is under fire. the former trump attorney general bill barr declaring the judge s opinion is wrong and deeply flawed, once again contradicting his ex-boss. cnn s sara murray is following all the new twists in the legal fight over the classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. reporter: tonight donald trump s own former attorney general is urging the justice department to appeal. the opinion i think was wrong, and i think the government should appeal it. i don t think the appointment of a special master is going to hold up. reporter: a judge has put on hold the justice department s review of documents and othe
all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news. thanks for staying up late. i ll see you again tomorrow! see you again tomorrow! thanks to at home for being here. we are breaking news tonight into the investigation of trump s handling into top secret government records that went up at his florida beach club. the trump appointed job judge has denied the government s request for era partial state of her special master ruling. last week, judge aileen cannon ruled that she will appoint a special master, an independent third party. to review the 11,000 seized records that the fbi retreat from trump s home nearly 40 days ago. and in response, the justice department begrudgingly said, okay, go ahead and appoint that special master. but please exclude those roughly 100 classified documents you seized from mar-a-lago. because we need to continue the criminal investigation into these classified documents due to potential national security conce
mystery during the recent uptick in activity from the justice department is what happened to mark meadows? now we know the answer. the answer is that he has responded. he s complied with a subpoena from the justice department as part of the january 6th investigation. now, this makes him the highest ranking trump official to comply with a subpoena as part of this criminal investigation, and, you know, in addition to him, we also know that ben williamson, one of his aides, a very top aide of mark meadows has also been subpoenaed as part of this big push we recently reported more than 30 subpoenas that went out to people in the trump orbit. with mark meadows, we know he s provided, you know, all of the materials he had given to the january 6th, the house committee that is investigating january 6th. that s thousands of emails and text messages from the period that, you know, covers everything from before the election to up to obviously january 20th. so that s an important window
line is long, and yet people are waiting. it s moving quickly. they re getting to see their queen. whether inside or outside the chambers, so many people we ve spoken to here appointed out it s the silence, perhaps, that is so remarkable. silence in nearly every respect. even if you take away the buses in the taxes and general bustle that you find in any great global capital, london s bill is under the approach path to one of the world s busiest international airports, heathrow. airliners fly over the city every minute of every daylight hour every single day, except for this day, when the only sounds were the music of mourning chosen by the queen herself, and military cadence calls. party, slow. march. president biden in the first lady are expected to fly here saturday morning. first american president the king will know as monarch. his mother knew 14, and met 13 of them. more now from cnn s jeff zeleny on the remarkable span of history and presidential personalit