soldiers from a police battalion helped rescue more families trapped by flood waters. firefighters rescuing this 91-year-old woman who was trapped in her home surrounded by flood waters. all told more than 1,000 people across the island have been rescued by first responders. president biden has pledged response to puerto rico following fiona s destruction. here in the next hour we ll be live on the ground in san juan. in a few hours a special master sifting through the documents seized from mar-a-lago holds his first hearing in new york. that s florida. the hearing is in new york. a new filing in a new filing lawyers for former president trump oppose having to disclose specific information about the documents he claims in public though not in legal documents that he declassified. i m going to walk over to cnn s senior legal analyst to talk much more about this. so it seems as if judge dearie here has said, put your cards on
those who are arriving here. gloria pazmino live in new york. thank you for that. just hours from now, the special master sifting through all the mar-a-lago documents. all the documents seized from mar-a-lago holds his first hearing in new york. donald trump s lawyers are fighting judge raymond dearie s orders about the documents trump claims he declassified. it seems the judge said, hey, what documents do you say you declassified. we re following the developments and joins me right now. so judge dearie, the special master, getting to work. this is interesting today. this is the first hearing. he s been serving for 36 years. he s managed a lot of cases and i think we re starting to get a sense of how much control he s taking and how seriously he s taking this roam. so he has circulated a draft case management plan to the parties which we have a glimpse
and so in essence, a court deciding a steak conducts a mini trial in forecast whether or not the person asking for the state will ultimately win. it doesn t decides the actually win, but if we are going to pause these proceedings, does that mean that this person asking for the pause button, do they have a legitimate claim, here in the government falls back on its argument as it originally did which i still think is quietly one of the strongest arguments that trump simply does not have standing and he s a former president and he is asking for a return of property that is not his and therefore he should not even be in court. i think the doj as much as the 11th circuit is comprised of a number of different trump appointees, including republicans as well, i think this argument has a really good shot at the 11th circuit. and, john though trump has publicly claimed that he declassified everything he took to mar-a-lago. the finally took issue with how
it wasn t self executing. this case father shows how this would work. he has done an effect. and to literally try to recreate the case law for him and only him, would be ridiculous. andrew weizmann, it seems like the judge may be a listener today he would show because that is the only place where anyone has actually said that this stuff was declassified. and she today tonight in her ruling, took the position of, how can i possibly know? how could i ever know, anyone know, if i document marked classified is actually classified? so one of the one of her answers to the argument with the government said. he s not actually disputing this we show that this is classified and it has all the markings of a classified. and he is not saying that he declassified and she basically says tish talk. you really can t expect him to
because that is the only place where anyone has actually said that this stuff was declassified. and she today tonight in her ruling, took the position of, how can i possibly know? how could i ever know, anyone know, if i document marked classified is actually classified? so one of the one of her answers to the argument with the government said. he s not actually disputing this we show that this is classified and it has all the markings of a classified. and he is not saying that he declassified and she basically says tish talk. you really can t expect him to have concretized that s the word she used his position because he hasn t seen these documents since they were seized. that is the most insane thing in the world. first fall,