inside the president s garage with his corvette. hence the new york post headline anybody vette this guy? we have a look at past cases involving classified information. let s begin the hour david spunt reports at the department of justice where he was yesterday when the news broke. david, hello. two special counsels investigating two presidents in a span of two months. welcome to the department of justice. it has been busy. robert hur is the latest special counsel on the job as of yesterday to specifically investigate these classified documents taken from the president s home in wilmington, delaware and his office at the penn biden center. jack smith, the appointed is neck deep and the president trump documents. attorney general garland who has lived in a pressure cooker the past six months was most recently with the president in mexico. they sat together and spoke multiple times on the trip. a source says the attorney general never spoke to the president about this inves
trump lawyer jim trusty described the battle over whether the documents were kept as comparable to a dispute over to an overdue lie b. the judge indicating if she appoints a special master, she may still allow the intelligence community to review the seized documents as part of a damage assessment. prosecutors, meantime, arguing the special master was unnecessary and saying trump s team has offered no evidence there was any disregard for the former president s rights. as the judge asks, what s the harm in appointing a special master. beyond the courtroom, trump it s not like this was some sinister plot. reporter: insisting whatever happened at mar-a-lago was the result of hastily packing up to leave the white house. you accumulate a lot of stuff over a term and all of a sudden you re leaving and stuff gets packed up and sent. reporter: trump s team down played the documents found in his home and club, without denying they were classified. saying, simply put, the n
here s what i have to say. yes. since donald trump made his way into the political scene i m always waiting for something. i was waiting for the night of the grab them by the you know what tape. waiting, wait, waiting to see if he had covid. now we re waiting for these documents, redacted. what are we going to learn? you re a former federal prosecutor. what are we going to learn from a bunch of black out spaces? for some they ll look at it as an ink blot test. in reality, you can learn a lot from what is excluded and not said. all of this cumulatively had a federal magistrate judge say, you can go and you can search and execute a search warrant that s a high bar. that s a high bar. they re probably overly inclusive. we don t have everything buck what we do know is a search was executed. they took boxes from that particular estate. we didn t hear a big argument in the court from trump s lawyers as to pleas no, stop. which was surprising in and of itself. hold on.
attorney here where this battle could go and andrew mccarthy on why he says the former president should be worried. welcome. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it. what we know about it. david in west palm beach with more. david? neil, good afternoon. judge cannon announced that she would issue an order in due course. due course in a high stakes case like this could be truly any hour or any day now. we re in unchartered waters here. we ve never seen anything like this before. the judge has a lot to decide here. we ve talked about this term special master a lot over the past few weeks since the federal government went in to mar-a-largo on august 8. a special master simply is a neutral third party arbiter, somebody that comes in, takes a look at the evidence and they may find that some evidence is out of the scope of the investigation and may order to return that evidence with the approval of a judge to donald trump who owns the property at mar-a-largo. so judge cannon today hea
2022, reading scores saw their biggest drop since 1990. math scores plummeted during that period for the first time ever. these are some of the worst declines that the study has seen in its 50-year history. it could take a generation for some scores to rebound reports the wall street journal. the learning loss could weigh on economic output in this country in the years to come. pete hegseth and leo terrell are here. first, to david lee miller that shows us what s in the study. hi, lee. the nation s schools are getting a failing grade based on the test scores of 9-year-old students. let s start with math. the decrease was where s than nine points. so called lower performing students saw scores draw by 12 points. black and hispanics decreased more than white. when it comes to reading, the average test core dropped five points. some problem learners saw a decline by 10. reading scores by white, black and hispanic students were impacted equally by the pandemic. an education p