The Department Reports it has now recovered more than 320 classified documents from mara lago. Prosecutors essay some documents were likely concealed or removed from storage in an effort to obstruct their investigation. The court filing casts serious doubt on a statement by trumps attorneys that all classified material had been returned. The Justice Department also argues that trump lacked legal standing to request a Special Master, since the documents belonged to the government, not to him. The court filing came with this photo, showing documents taken by the fbi, from a container in trumps office. More now from cnns sarah murray. Reporter the Justice Department weighs in with its side of the story of what happened in the runup and aftermath of the search at mar alago. This is all a part of the Court Battle Playing Out over whether there should be a Special Master, an independent third party appointed to review the documents that the fbi sees when they searched maralago. The trump tea
A preliminary intent to allow a neutral third party, typically a retired judge, to review the documents. The former president s attorney claims a Special Master is necessary to ensure the Justice Department returns any of trumps private belongings and documents covered by Attorney Client privilege. But, the Justice Department has indicated it is already using an internal filter team to review everything which was seized by the fbi. For now, cnns Political Correspondent sara murray live now, sara, and broad brushstrokes, when we look at in terms of the spots from the doj . We are looking overall, in terms of the legal argument, the Justice Department opposing with donald trump is looking for, which is a Special Master, an independent third party to overview these documents. The Justice Department is saying look, after the search they did on the president s residence in maralago at august, theyve already gone through those materials. Theyve already had a filter team set up to remove any
House. Okay. What we are learning about what the doj was looking for on Jeffrey Clarks phone, plus the decision from trumps judge on the Special Master as the ex president threatens against potential indictment. If it happened, i think you would have problems in this country the likes of which, perhaps, we have never seen before. What kind of problems, mister president . I think he would have big problems. And 54 days to election day, new research on just how much abortion is animating and independents, when all in starts right now good evening from new york, im chris hayes. These days, it can be tough to keep track of all the people in Donald Trumps circle who have had their personal devices searched or seized in connection with one of the multiple ongoing investigations into the ex president s wrongdoing. It feels like i follow this for a living and i am reminded or learn of a new one almost every day. Recently, we have added an exceedingly colorful characters that group. You might k
got, less than a thousand power outages, but also just be prepared in case something turns or something happens this afternoon. ainsley: down in florida, desperate search and rescue efforts are underway this morning. at least ten are confirmed dead. but officials warn that number will likely be higher. the damage i saw was on fort myers beach. but they have been more than 700 confirmed rescues and is likely many more than that. ainsley: florida s governor will give a press conference, at 8:45 a.m., with an update on ian. we ll bring you that life. you will see some before-and-after shadows showing the intent of the damage fort myers. a crew is being sent down to prevent all the looting. can you believe that people would actually steal from other people when they are out of state? brian: more than 2 million people across florida still have no power. we have team coverage this morning. fox weather correspondent robert ray is live in fort myers with a look at the damage.
reporter: you ve already seen the former staffers from former president obama filing in. to some degree, a reunion, not just for the staff but also the president and the former president and obviously the president was the former vice-president as well. eight years together serving in the white house, obviously a close relationship, a very deeply personal relationship, one that s had its ups and downs, but there s no question throughout the roller coaster the two have remained friends and remained in contact since president biden took office last year. this will mark the first trip back to the white house for michelle obama since she left office on january a tradition, one that has been on a pause, at least for the last decade since george w. bush and laura bush had their portraits unveiled by president obama. president trump decided not to. we don t know why. but both the former president and first lady will have their portraits unveiled all for the former president obam