huge. friday at midnight is the deadline. this is the last thing the piend administration wants as the economy is on an upswing this could have a big economic impact. pete, president biden is calling rail unions, calling rail companies in an attempt to avert the shutdown. what power does he have to affect the outcome and congress? reporter: many layers of the biden administration are engaged from the department of labor to the department of transportation. if congress comes into play, it could put into play a 60-day waiting period renewing a waiting period or could force a deal on both sides. the biden administration recommended big changes for these unions including pay raises, back pay from 2020 and bonus pay although not satisfactory enough for every rail union involved, jake. pete, tell our viewers what freight trains typically carry. reporter: we re talking about 30% of all the freight in the united states. we re talking about gas. we re talking about cars. the a
we re already looking at this material, and we have got a process in place to protect it. reporter: in a new court filing, doj says it has identified a limit set of materials that could contain attorney/client privilege information. the progress report coming after former president donald trump s team asked a judge for a special master, to oversee the evidence uncovered in the search. we have a lot of problems accepting everything in face value that s coming out of doj these days. it s a very politicized place, i m sad to say, and there s still a need for a judge to get involved on every aspect of this. reporter: this as the fallout continues over how trump handled classified documents after leaving documents. this guy we now know 184 classified documents, 25 of them top secret. and by the way, countries that want to do us harm want to see these documents. reporter: avril haines tell congress officials are conducting a damage assessment, including an assessment of t
world, i m wolf blitzer and this is the situation room special report. as we cover the breaking news from illinois, cnn s coverage of the fourth in america is delayed until later this hour. let s go straight to highland park, illinois, the chicago suburb that s grief-stricken and terrorized right now as the mass shooting suspect is still on the loose. cnn is there for us, adrian, police are looking for a 22-year-old man named robert e. crimo the third. tell us about what they know. reporter: wolf, investigators believe that 22-year-old who they think is responsible for the shooting that happened here in highland park is driving. he s in a vehicle, they say, with illinois plates, described as a silver hyundai. and the license plate, again dm 8 80653. meanwhile, investigators had their teams out aggressively trying to apprehend this suspect. they consider him armed and dangerous. if you think you see this 22-year-old man, police say do not approach him. instead, call 911. t
to be blindsided by this announcement to say, hey, court, they want to see the receipts. they ve contacted out that attorney apparently for advice and they are considering asking the judge to even block the request by the doj to make that unsealed. that move would seem a bit odd, wouldn t it? trump himself was publicly revealing that the search even took place and then he blasted it as politically motivated and there was republican allies in congress and right-wing media who pushed his accusations. might add, not too highly. they dehanded transparency. merrick garland as the attorney general is calling trump s bluff, isn t he? the justice department has filed a motion in the southern district of florida to unseal a search warrant and property receipt relating to a court-approved search that the fbi conducted earlier this week. that search was a premises located in florida belonging to the former president. the department did not make any public statements on the day of the
between the president and the vice president, is that correct? yes. when i entered the office the second time he was on the telephone with who i later out to found out to be the vice president. could you hear the vice president or only hear the president s end? only hear the president s end. at some point it started off as a calmer tone and became heated. the conversation was pretty heated. did you hear any part of the phone call even just the end that the president was speaking from? i did, yes. all right. what did you hear? as i was dropping off the note, my memory, i remember hearing the word, wimp. he called him a wimp. i remember he said, you are a wimp. you ll be a wimp. wimp is the word i remember. it s also been reported that the president said to the vice president, that something to the effect that you don t have the courage to make a hard decision. something like that. like you re not tough enough to make the call. something to the effect th