when serena williams won her first u.s. open in 1999 tom brady was still at michigan, lebron james hadn t yet played a high school game, bill clinton was in the white house. harry styles was in preschool, napster debuted, tlc demanded no scrubs and the backstreet boys want it had that way. now she is one step closer to another title on her way out the door. good morning, i m brianna keilar with john berman. the almost 41-year-old defeating the number two player in the world bringing the crowd to its feet as she advance toss round three and another magical performance at the u.s. open. it wasn t easy she was facing anett kontaveit one of the world s top players, 14 years her junior but in the critical first set serena rose to the occasion by win ago rousing tiebreaker and went on to grueling three-set victory. the stands were packed with celebrities as they always are. tiger woods, he was right there, serena williams says she is still playing because of him. he helped her fi
very political nature in this case. i don t think we need any of those things. you have norm eisen filing a brief in the case. he s been all over anti-trump stuff forever. just play it straight. if the documents are as the government says, they re going to have to be a lot of answers provided. and here now is the aforementioned norm eisen, former house judiciary special counsel and donald trump s first impeachment trial, as you heard, norm filed a brief in opposition to trump s request for a special master. thank you for being with us. your name was invoked. your response. well, john, this is such an important case that not me, i was just one of the lawyers for the case with the distinguished group of co-counsel, but seven leading gop legal voices, from every administration prior to donald trump s going back to the reagan administration put together this brief because they wanted to say to the judge, and there is not a political word in it, it is about the law. and they w
justice. plus, joe biden s primetime punch. the president tonight will use a national address to warn republicans are actively working in his view to undermine american democracy. and sarah palin loses in her alaska comeback attempt. a democrat won the special house election. so did advocates of what is called rank choice vote. a first for us, though. a court showdown next hour over the fbi s search of donald trump s mar-a-lago. the justice department says it did everything by the book and that its investigation should continue full speed ahead. team trump, though, is objecting and asking a judge to name a special master. that s an independent third party to review the materials taken from the former president s hotel, home and office. the hearing is before a trump-appointed judge who is already on record leaning in favor of a special master. team trump last night responded to a detailed government filing asserting that trump had no standing to ask for a special master and as
shouldn t have triggered an fbi search. let s go the evan perez this morning. good morning, erica. the trump team largely ignores a lot of the allegations that the justice department made in its bombshell filing a couple nights ago. they are saying it should not have been a surprise that there were classified documents found at mar-a-lago. they were considered personal and presidential records. i will read you part of what they say in the court fueliling. that the records contain sensitive information should never have been cause for alarm. they re saying that the justice department cannot be trusted to just look through the documents and sort out what may be presidential privilege, executive privilege, or at attorney/client privilege. they want to appoint a special master to look at the documents and set aside the things that may be considered privileged. so, we expect that this judge is going to take a look at this filing and really maybe ask some questions about what the
investigation. let s break down what each side is arguing before this judge right now. cnn s sarah murray is leading us off. sarah, walk us you therough it. reporter: ana, this is going to be the continuation of this court fight over whether there should be this third party to go through what was seized at mar-a-lago. the justice department has argued that this is not a necessary step. they re saying that the trump team pushed an inaccurate narrative about the search and that putting a special master in place now when they ve already gone through the material is just going to slow down their criminal investigation and could potentially impede this national security risk assessment that has already been under way. they re also pointing out that while there are some potentially attorney-client privilege materials, that executive privilege doesn t apply in this scenario because you re talking about sharing information with the executive branch. but the trump team in their fili