governors flying asylum seekers to the northeast. a migrants advocacy group just filed a federal lawsuit against florida governor ron desantis. and in ukraine right now cnn is on the ground with rare access to the front lines of a heated battle between ukrainian defenders and russian mercenaries. stay tuned for our report from the war zone. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. our top story tonight, the trump legal team already at odds with the special master it requested, refusing to provide evidence the former president declassified documents seized from his florida home. cnn s justice correspondent jessica schneider has the latest on the mar-a-lago investigation. reporter: tonight the special master bringing together trump s lawyers and attorneys for the juls s department to hammer out how to proceed with the review of the 1 # 1,000 documents taken from mar-a-lago including 100 docum
foreign countries nuclear capabilities. cnn has yet to come that said, when reached by the post, did not deny the substance of. it instead, he said something that we ve now starting a la ronda fenders of the former president in the last 24 hours, deflecting the facts, focusing set on the lead. for example, here s marco rubio who serves on this this past sunday, exploiting the way the fbi recovering as a storage argument. this is really, at its core, a storage argument that they re making. there are documents there, they don t deny the access to them. i don t think a fight over storage of documents is worthy of what they ve done. now that the washington post published a report about nuclear secrets big involved, senator rubio is focusing more on apparently cause. it doesn t seem like the kind of thing that you should have in your post presidential desk drawer. let s break this down. first of all, we really don t know. let s go back and understand that all this
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
falsely told donors that all the money contributed would go toward the construction effort. federal prosecutors charged bannon with the same basic alleged crime in 2020 but he was pardoned by donald trump as trump was leaving office. presidential pardons do not apply to state investigations. cnn s kara scannell is here with the latest. this has a familiar ring to it, but steve bannon, these are serious charges. yeah, these are serious charges and a serious investigation by the manhattan district attorney s office. sources tell me that bannon will surrender, a expected to surrender tomorrow here in new york to face these new york state charges. the conduct he is being charged with is very similar to the conduct that he was charged by federal prosecutors in 2020 and that was for allegedly along with co-conspirators misleading donors who donated money in this fundraising effort to raise money to build a wall along the southern u.s. border, an entity called we build the ball.
new charges against steve bannon this morning, welcome to viewers here in the united states and all around the world. long-time trump adviser and ally steve bannon expected to surrender to prosecutors in new york thursday to face state charges related to his fundraising effort to build a wall along the southern border. bannon allegedly defrauded donors who contributed to a we build the wall campaign. the crowd-funded border wall raised more than $25 million. according to prosecutors bannon falsely told donors that all the money contributed would go toward the construction effort. bannon in a statement calls the indictment phoney charges and a partisan political weaponization of the criminal justice system. federal prosecutors charged bannon with the same alleged crime in 2020 but president trump pardoned bannon as he was leaving office. presidential pardons do not apply to state investigations, of course. cnn s kara scannell is joining us now with the details. what s the la