of his cabinet, or a near cabinet level official could authorize other government officials to know the details of those special access programs. even more sensitive than we knew to this point, and, of course, kept in an unsecured facility. if confirmed, it means the documents containing another nation s nuclear secrets and some of the u.s. most highly guarded top secret operations were sitting in an unsecured country club for more than 18 months. after repeated requests to return those documents. and another major story we are following this morning, this one out of memphis, tennessee, the man now charged with the death of 34-year-old eliza fletcher is facing multiple murder charges in her kidnapping and death, expected in court, in the next hour. we re going to bring you updates live, more in a moment. first, we want to begin with our top story this hour, the washington post story reporting a document detailing a foreign government s military defenses including its nuc
returned would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude. and a major victory for trump, a third party attorney outside of government will soon be tasked with sifting through thousands of documents to identify personal items and materials that could be protected by attorney client or executive privilege. while it does delay things and slow down, which of course is bad for doj in their case, i think, at the end of the day, we are not going to see a lot of documents pulled by the special master. a judge pointing out some of the seized materials include taxes and accounting information. the ruling, allowing u.s. intelligence agencies to continue their national security damage assessment, but halting the justice department criminal review of its mar-a-lago home. i don t think it has a massive impact in the investigation in the long run. if i were the prosecutor working on this case, i d say, let s just trench forward with a special master, to g
its own laws, it is smugglers, and human traffickers and drugs and weapons and terrorism also people here unlawfully committing seriously, deadly crimes, sovereign nations need secure borders. strong countries enforce their law ands federal government needs to do its job or someone else will. governor abbott and ron desantis are highlighting these issues, there are now threats to sue governors and calls for criminal probes. someone removed governors from office but not remove people here unlawfully? joining us now is former dhs secretary chad wolf thank you for joining us, your successor said that border is secure how would you describe it. the border is anything but secure, we continue to see month after month high numbers over 200 thousand illegal apprehensions over 900,000 got aways this fiscal year that is ending in about a month from now, with that much unlawful and uncontrolled migration across the sort of everyone border you have no control over it you could point to
president himself played a critical role in getting the deal across the finish line. his message, emphasize the harm that families, businesses and communities would feel if a shutdown went ahead. the final hurdle to come, and that is a full union vote. also this, an immigration battle escalating near the vice president s doorstep. buses of migrants sent from texas dropped off just feet from her residence in washington overnight. this happening a day after officials on martha s vineyard were sent scrambling after dozens of migrants unexpectedly arrived there. the office of florida governor ron desantis says it was he who sent two planes to the massachusetts island with more than 50 migrants on board. you see a picture there. cnn s steve contorno live in washington. i saw a group of migrants dropped off in front of the vice president s residence in d.c. this morning as well. what s happening? reporter: the governor of florida has been promising for months really that he i
we re glad you re with us. we re following three major stories this morning. first an immigration battle unfolding steps from the vice president s home. this morning buses of migrants were dropped off near the naval observatory in washington, d.c. the latest moves in the strategy from some red states to protest the biden administration s immigration policies. ron desantis sent two planes to martha s vineyard without notice to the community there as we worked to set up shelters. plus, a cnn exclusive this morning. sourcing tell us that mark meadows has now complied with the justice department subpoena in the investigation into january 6. also new this morning, an economic crisis averted. a tentative deal reaches overnight after hours of negotiations to avoid a rail strike. much more on the role the white house said the president played in getting that deal across the finish line. but first, two plane loads of migrants landing on martha s vineyard and volunteers jumping into