is. welcome to this special edition of the lead. i m kaitlan collins in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and a major victory for donald trump for now. a judge has now granted his request for a special master, allowing a third party attorney to come in and review the documents seized from mar-a-lago last month. the judge cited senchlg reasons for her decision, including the potential stigma that donald trump faces after the search plus what she calls, quote, swirling allegations of bias and media leaks. trump s lawyers argued he needed a special master because they couldn t trust the justice department, and in today s ruling, the judge said federal investigators can not continue reviewing the materials they took until the special master has finished their work. let s get straight to cnn s senior justice correspondent, evan perez. evan, i know this filing is 24 pages long. it came out on this holiday, but what are the main takeaways from it? kaitlan, the j
as a progressive place. then there s the future of democracy itself today, with the republican party, in some places like arizona, deciding through its voters tonight whether the party s nominees for top jobs are backers of the big lie of baseless election fraud claims, of attacks on the way we do nonpartisan democracy in this country, with trump encoursed candidates currently viewed as front-runners, including a maga governor candidate who s pushing claims of fraud, kari lake. those who do stand up to trump, including three who threatened to voted to impeach president trump. there s more at stake than a typical primary night, and a lot more issues. as the political guru s de la soul put it, issues close like an elevator door but open once we get to the next floor. as the stakes is high, you know the stakes is high. fact check, true. the stakes is high. it is primary election day in missouri, and several high profile races could help bring voter out to the polls. histor
resumed after an appeals court blocked trump s attempts to prevent the intelligence community from even looking at the documents. also new today, trump s lawyers and justice department are facing two new deadline set by the special master doj has until monday to certify, they provided a full and accurate list of voting items seized at mar-a-lago, and the trump team has until friday to dispute the fbi s list trump claims his personal was among item the fbi seized he talked about the investigations and the political rally last night in north carolina we will have more on that in a moment and your reaction today of a lawsuit filed by new york s attorney general against trump, three of his children, his business partners, and organizations. his former lawyer michael cohen declaring the former president a threat to democracy. our democracy is in peril because of one man, anybody who that is not one of his supporters, he is willing to go after. he does not care if he burns the co
at the barrel of a gun. russians have orchestrated sham referendum votes in four occupied regions in ukraine. plus, calling trump s bluff. the former president and his lawyers publicly suggested the fbi planted evidence at mar-a-lago. now the trump appointed or approved special master is daring them to make that claim in court. we begin at the white house. notably this is a political venue for president biden s speech moments from now. what are we expecting to hear from the president? this is all part of the amped up political activity we ve seen from president biden as he is anticipating and describing what he believes will be a very tight midterm election campaign. that is why the president is using these types of political events to, one, try to tout some of the legislative accomplishments his white house has achieved, things like infrastructure, bipartisan agreements when it comes to guns and also the recently passed inflation reduction act which touches economic, clima
electric coverage. this has no been no ordinary august politically. then news week ahead promises to be dominated by the deepening implications of just what the justice department retrieved from donald trump s mar-a-lago estate nearly a month ago. that s thanks to two surrounding developments surrounding this investigation. a federal judge and florida signaling just yesterday her intention to appoint an independent special master to oversee the review of what the fbi retreat from mar-a-lago. as the director of national intelligence announces that her office will conduct a threat assessment of those documents. the news comes after this week s release of unredacted copy of the affidavit used by investigators to obtain the search warrants. wearing out the justice department s fears of possible national security risks. over classified documents that trump was holding on to. between all of trump s trouble, a busy summer of legislative winds and a resurgent president biden. democr