That really good conversation. We appreciate it. That will do it for me on this edition of alex witt reports. Ill see you tomorrow again at one pm eastern. Up next, the beat weekend. He b. Welcome to the beat weekend. I am ari melber. Lets get right into the headlines. Jack smith making new pitch on behalf of the doj on what donald trump must be put on trial before the election. If that sounds like a familiar issue, just remember, jack smith has more than one case against Defendant Trump. The defendant was done and in Federal Court today watching as doj prosecutors argued for a july beginning to a trial and the other jack smith case. Billy and the way, we discussed a big coup case and the Supreme Court slowing that down. This is the classified documents case. You probably remember. Both and they are saying over at the doj there is nothing in their roles or process which prevents this trial, on the documents, from occurring and weeks even days before the election. Remember, it is trump
writing in a brief statement the queen died peacefully at balmoral this afternoon, her summer home in scotland. what comes next as a meticulously planned national memorializing of the queen which was reportedly set in motion with four code words, london bridge is down. and charles iii will deliver a televised address to the united kingdom tonight. and to protect the succession of the church, the saint james palace, ever since james i in 1714. the queens body will be transported back to buckingham palace, for a small funeral procession with government officials and including the united kingdom s new prime minister liz truss sworn in just this week. in the final act of the public duty of the queen. the queen s body is expected to stay there until tuesday before moved to westminster palace where members of the public will be able to pay their respects. simultaneous lick, simultaneously king charles will tour the country before burying his mother. lond-based breaking news rep
my director is saying ariel. i don t know. i don t see you as ariel. can i be a mouse? can i be mickey? i want to be mickey. mickey a s black. oh, is mickey black? are we having this conversation? this whole thing about santa and jesus. i was the color fuchsia just now. i do love the new ariel though. i think it s amazing what it s doing for kids and diversity, so i think it s great and for opening people s eyes to their own issues whether they realize they have them or not. that s a whole other conversation. do you have issues? it s friday night. do you know what your issues are? that s a whole other show, and this is a whole other show now. thank you, laura. this is don lemon tonight. the doj just moments ago asking an appeals court to put on hold parts of the judge s order requiring a third party review of the materials from the fbi search of mar-a-lago last month. the doj asking for the 11th circuit to take action as soon as pact kl. just one day after
portion causing the most serious and immediate harm to the government and the public. one, restricting the government s review and use of records bearing classification markings. and two, requiring the government to disclose those records for a special master review process. the doj asking for the court to allow its criminal investigators to review the materials marked as classified and for the court to exclude those documents from the special master s review of the search. it is a fight that could go all the way to the supreme court, so we must talk about this now. i want to get right to cnn s justice correspondent jessica schneider, cnn legal analyst and former assistant u.s. attorney jeff, rogers, and special watergate prosecutor nic acerman. jessica, i want to start with you. what can you tell us what the doj is saying in this filing tonight? they re tell this court, look, we want two things the lower court judge eileen canon refused to give us last night. they want to
just a little while ago to london for the queen s funeral. it is coming as we get to see an emotional moment involving the queen s grandchildren led by princes william and harry. more on that ahead, as well. but, first the department of justice. following through on their promise to appeal judge canada s special master role in what they call out as quote, an unprecedented order in joining the executive branch s use of its own highly classified records in a criminal investigation with direct implications for national security. before this appeal, the newly appointed special master judge raymond dealey, wasting no, time scheduling his first hearing for this tuesday. for more, we get to senior politics reporter jonathan allen as long as msnbc legal analyst barbara mcquade. jonathan, let me start with you on this one. and let s get the tiktok of what we can expect first on tuesday? well that s a great question, yasmin. i think we are going to see the initial agenda actually on