and it is also very windy which is pushing some of the flames. people are heating the nuclear power plant, and we are playing with fire. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is wednesday, acceseptemb, 9:00 a.m. here this london and 4:00 a.m. on the east coast. and we re learning new details about what the fbi found at mar-a-lago. agents recovered a document on a foreign government defenses nuclear capabilities. the pain cites people familiar with the matter and the justice department has recovered horn 300 classified documents from mar-a-lago this year. you are talking about documents that should be stored in a scif, takes it is a gover acronym for a very secure room, and should have someone who is designated government official to keep very close tabs on those kinds of documents. that is another cause for concern because obviously when they conducted this search, they looked in a storage room, in the former president s office, and those aren
investigation of trump until the review is complete. i want to go to more from sarah murray in washington this morning. reporter: a judge granting donald trump s request for a special master to review the materials the fbi seized from the search at mar-a-lago. the judge writing because of trump s role as a former president the stigma associated with the seizure is in a league of its own. a future indictment would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magn magnitude. a third party attorney outside of government will be tasked with sifting through thousands of documents to identify personal items and materials protected by attorney/client or executive privilege. while it does slow things down, which is bad for doj and their case. i think at the end of the day we re not going to see a lot of documents pulled by the special master. reporter: the ruling allowing u.s. intelligence agencies to continue their national security assessment. i don t think
rejecting a special master. a filing that included this, a striking photo of highly classified documents found at mar-a-lago. among trump s arguments, an admission that there were classified documents there. but that was to be expected among presidential records. no big deal. and should not have triggered an fbi search. joining us now, legal analyst loni coombs. so nice to see you. thanks for getting up our staying up late for us. so lawyers for the former president, they are,ing that it is the justice department that is unchecked and that these highly classified documents stashed away at the president s resort are no big deal? yeah, this is a really interesting reply brief. it was supposed to be a reply to all of the very strong arguments that were made by the department of justice in their response to this request for a special master. but instead it really read more like a pr statement, you know, going after the fbi and the doj as usual saying that they are unchecked and
hang outside the sea. wonderful. new york 83 today. it s really nice. steve: look at that august 16th already. time is awasting, the summer is pert near over for a lot of kids in some of the some of the states they have already gone back to will school. ainsley: hard to believe. where did the summer go? steve: i know. welcome, folks. brian is off today in his dent in the couch is will cain. ainsley: are your kids in school yet. will: first day tomorrow. ainsley: you will be there for that. will: i will be there for that winding down and nothing better than to milk every bit of summer by getting up early. ainsley: everyone wants to know did you find your lug gag? will: no. i think it s somewhere in dallas. gigantic airport. ainsley: have you been wearing this suit every day? will: i keep all my suits in new york. i have had fresh clothes on to appear in front of you for the last seven days. steve: cosmetically, shaffers. will: it s all that temporary
great to see you both. fbi documents show agencies sensitive documents, compartmented information. four top-secret chemistry marked secret, and three marked confidential. some of the records seized last monday are covered by attorney-client privilege. well, that the problem. and a growing number of republicans are calling on the justice department to release the affidavit that attorney general merrick garland used to sign off on the search warrant. i m going to pause and ask you what you would like me to do at this point, because you are kind of toggling back and forth and it s a little confusing. okay, all right. thank you. we love our team. ever since news of that fbi search first broke, some in the mainstream media have appeared to be delighted about the raid. i think the shortest distance between donald trump and an orange jumpsuit is this investigation with the documents. perhaps the orange jumpsuit is forthcoming. i think a lot of people do want to see donald trum