it s also a strategic appeal. just for perspective here, we remember doj seized 11,000 documents out of mar-a-lago. they don t like the special master ruling as to any of it. they lost on all 11,000 documents. what they re doing is saying okay, let s carve out the most important to us doj 100 of those documents. they ve given up on there being a special master for the other 10,900 other documents but with respect to those classified documents, those should not go to the special master, we should be able to use them in the criminal investigation and national security investigation, by doing that they limited the upside and won t get the special master kicked out all together but limited their downside because if you take an appeal and lose on the whole thing in the 11th circuit, that s really bad for doj and sets a worse precedent for doj so i think they re trying to be tactical and strategic in what they re choosing to go after here. this whole process is getting dragged ou
investigation. by doing that they ve limited the up side. they re not going to get the special master kicked out altogether, but they ve limited their down side because if you take an appeal and lose on the whole thing in the 11th circuit that s really bad for doj. that sets an even worse precedent for doj. so i think they re being tactical and strategic. this whole process is being dragged out. is trump getting what he wants especially if this works its way all the way up to the supreme court? to be sure, don. we have seen donald trump use delay as a tactic plenty of times before often successfully. here we are six weeks after that search was done at mar-a-lago and the special master hasn t gotten started yet and now he has until november 30th to get this done, and we ve got a pending at least a request for stay going up to the court of appeals. yes, it s moving slowly, and yes, delay is to donald trump s benefit. phil mudd, does it make any sense to you this judge can
buendias. the defiant response from gop governors and how this could factor into the november midterms. plus, sticker shock. mortgage rates jumping to the highest level in a decade. what that means for buyers and what it says about the market. tropical storm fiona closes in. when conditions will start to deteriorate and the potential impacts to the island. plus, procrastinators take note. was this headline written for me? travel experts say this is the time to book holiday flights . good morning and welcome to your new day . it s saturday, september 17th. whitney, do you feel that? it s the weekend. it is the weekend. it s almost the end of summer. it is. we re grateful to have you here with us this morning. we re grateful you re making us part of your saturday. up first, a lot to get to. but we start with the political battle over immigration heating up. florida s governor doubling down on his plan to relocate migrants from the southern border. he arranged f
workers who worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic. the unions representing more than 50,000 engineers and connecters, they were threatening the first rail strike in 30 years. the hang up was over a system that the union said penalizes workers for sick leave and doctors visits. amtrak had already cancelled routes in anticipation of the strike. with the midterms looming there was pressure to get a deal done here. the disruption would have been had catastrophic impacts on industries, travelers and families across the country. but the story is about what didn t happen. no disruption, at least one that won t last more than a few days now. let s go to jeremy diamond at the white house for the details of the deal. reporter: good morning. 20 hours of negotiations finally leading to an agreement between the unions and the railway companies involved here. this deal would avert a strike that would have started at midnight tonight. president biden announcing the deal in a statem
elizabeth makes its final journey. you re looking at the pictures of the mile in central london. here in a few hours the queen s casket will be moved from buckingham palace to westminster hall where the queen will lie in state until her funeral on monday. king charles, prince harry and prince william will walk behind the casket as it makes its way. first on cnn we learned that the royals had dinner together at buckingham palace last night after receiving the casket. standing by along this morning s procession route, nada bashir and nina dos santos at buckingham palace. nina, what can we expect today? reporter: a big day, visible day. more junior members of the royal family. many of them, john, gathered here at buckingham palace for that intimate gathering to bid good-bye to the monarch. the queen is survived by 4 children, 8 children and 12 great grandchildren. we ll see prominent members of that family walk behind her coffin later on today. we re expecting the coffin, wh