documents at his country club. it comes as trump s legal team picks up a significant win in court. and in uvalde, texas, there is a mix of anxiety and fear for students and staff today as they start a new school year. for some parents, promises of increased security aren t enough to send their kids back to class. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, september 6th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. a riveting new twist this morning, following the fbi search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago home in florida. a federal judge has approved a request from trump s attorneys for a special master to review the material seized during last month s search. temporarily blocking parts of the justice department s investigation. u.s. district judge cannon, a trump appointee, stated in her ruling yesterday, that the special master should be able to review the seized documents to address questions of attorney-client privilege,
potential candidates to fill that special master role and outline their limitations. as for the investigation, a senior doj official tells nbc news this ruling does not halt the probe into the potential mishandling of classified documents. we ll dig into the legal implications of the judge s ruling in moments. also today, mixed emotions in uvalde, texas. students are back in school for the first time since the tragic may shooting at robb elementary. parents dropping off their kids, just trying to do the best they can. when i spoke to my kids the whole week, drilled them on, if anything happened again, try to make it out the window, run, don t scream. we re scared but we re here. we are on the ground in the community as they process the weight of this day. big news from across the pond where the new prime minister of the united kingdom, liz truss, is speaking this hour from downing street. we are monitoring that and we ll bring you the latest. we ll start with the
before the midterm elections. and we are in the final stretch, as candidates work to reach still undecided voters. in the senate race in pennsylvania, it s all about swing voters in the suburbs. democratic lieutenant governor john fetterman is up against republican mehmet oz. the outcome of the race there is critical, if democrats want to keep their razor-thin majority in the senate. cnn national reporter dan meriga is live for us in philadelphia there today. how tight is this race this weekend? it s remarkably tight. you ve seen the lead, the polling lead that john fetterman had over the summer has narrowed in recent weeks. and both campaigns, democrats and republicans acknowledge, there s a smaller and smaller sliver of undecided voters in this contest. that s what they are seeking to reach. dr. oz has been off the campaign trail today. he appeared on fox news this morning. he spoke about crime and the importance of the debate on tuesday. that s the key date in this conte
us. we are learning the names of some of the top republicans who have testified in multiple investigations involving the former president both in the federal case involving the misuse of classified documents and also the investigation in georgia into the former president s attempt to overturn the election results there. cnn s sara murray joins us now with details. let s start with the fulton county, georgia investigation. who is testifying? well, anderson, we have learned that there are two prominent witnesses who have testified before fulton county grand jury. one of them is former georgia senator kelly loeffler. the other is former white house lawyer pat cipollone. both of these are big gets for the district attorney down in georgia, fawnee willis. it gives you an idea how long-ranging her investigation. what news to the federal grand jury investigating the documents at mar-a-lago? we are learning this evening, that kash patel, a top adviser to former president donald
of donald trump s top allies now says he s ready to testify. plus, president zelensky message to russia on a deadly strike in an apartment building in ukraine. live from cnn, this is cnn newsroom. thank you for joining us, japan is preparing to form a leader just hours after his party won big in parliamentary elections. a private wake will be held about three hours from now, followed by funeral service tuesday afternoon. u.s. secretary of state anthony lincoln made an unscheduled trip to tokyo to pay his respects. during his time in office, he really took the relationship between our countries to new heights. as i share with our colleagues we saw in him something rare. a man who had the vision and the ability to realize that vision. but mostly, i came because more than allies, we are friends. and when a friend is hurting, other friends show up. in the meantime we are learning new details about the suspect and his anger over an unnamed group he thought they were conn