decision on whether to appoint a special master to review documents seized during the fbi search at mar-a-lago. this hearing comes after president trump s lawyers responded to the d.o.j. damning filing on tuesday. in their response, trump s lawyers pressed their argument that an independent review is needed. despite the justice department saying it had already filtered out any privileged documents. trump s lawyers acknowledge that classified material was found at mar-a-lago. but say there was no need to be alarmed. that trump s home should never have been searched for this. while we still don t know what was in the 320-plus highly classified documents that were recovered, we do know, trump attempted to obstruct the fbi s investigation into the handling of classified material. there s a lot to digest. let s go to west palm beach, florida, outside of the courthouse. the hear willing start at 1:00 eastern time today. walk us through what plays out now. about three hours from
doj could not be sptrusted to v the documents. trump s attorney said the filter team at the fbi is using the review the seized papers has virtually unchecked discretion in addressing potential privilege disputes. the judge was appointed by former president trump and has already indicated that she is leaning toward a special master. now, that was before the explosive brief from the justice department. it laid out the months-long effort by federal investigators to get back the government s classified records. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez is tracking all the developments. he is joining us from washington, so what s happening so far? reporter: well, so far, we don t really know much about what s going on in court. we can t get any updates until the hearing is over, victor and alisyn, but what we know is that the trump team is going to is trying to present to the judge this idea that it is no surprise that there were what they said, sensitive documents that we
the next insurrection hearing as a top committee member tests positive for covid. ultimatum from the families in uvalde to school officials. that is what we are watching at this hour. thank you very much for being here. i m kate baldwin. the stream heat affecting people around the world. the united kingdom recorded its highest temperature mp surpassing 104 degrees and temperatures are reaching triple digits across europe. the heat fueling wildfires from france, spain, portportugal. some cities in texas in the united states will see temperatures above 100 degrees the next ten days. we have multiple reporters covering all of this for us. let s begin with nina in london. how is london handling this? reporter: it s really sweltering. remember, this is a city that is more used to complaining about rainy cold summers and they have never seen anything like it. the mercury topping 40.2 de degredegrees and it might be as high as 42 celsius later on in the day. i m outside of kings
security adviser, highly involved in international priorities from the trump/kim summits to china policy. will be impossible to dismiss as a low level staffer. and steve bannon s contempt of congress trial, the former white house senior adviser is charged with defying subpoenas from the january 6th committee, for months. we begin with new information we re learning about the former trump national security official, who will testify in thursday s january 6th primetime hearing. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider joins us now. high level, one of the most senior trump administration officials to resign in the wake of january 6th. what more do we know about what s going ting to happen on thursday? we know the two former officials will be testifying, not only pottinger, but matthews, both resigning shortly after january 6th. matthew pottinger was the deputy national security adviser and we re told at the time of his resignation that he stepped down in response to trump
including some of them calling for the immediate firing of the uvalde school district police chief pete arredondo. he went on administrative leave that we would wait for investigative information to come forward to help us enter our decision making process and i will stick to that. all right. i ll tell you this. if he is not fired by noon tomorrow, then i want your resignation and every single one of you board members because you all do not give a damn about our children or us! stand with us or against us because we ain t going nowhere! cnn s rosa flores is in san antonio. rosa, one of the big headlines from this report was multiple failures across multiple agencies, multiple officers, and multiple commanders on the scene. i wonder. we heard again anger and attention focused on the school district police chief arredondo. are the parents asking just for his firing or for something more broad here? reporter: something more broad, jim. they were talking also about the ot