this ruling by the 11th circuit court of appeals. anderson, this is exactly what the justice department has been fighting for weeks. they tried to get this result in the district court from judge eileen canon. they didn t get it. now they ve had the victory from the 11th circuit. notably this is from a panel of two judges, two of them trump appointees, one obama appointee. and what the 11th circuit is saying tonight the justice department can go back to using the classified documents they d been restricted from using in their ongoing criminal probe into these classified documents that were seized from mar-a-lago last month. and the appeals court is saying here they re really agreeing with the justice department saying that, yes, in fact national security could be harmed if the justice department can t continue its probe here. they said that, you know, the doj has argued it s a criminal investigation, and the national security assessment is inextricably linked. the appeals c
the lawyers reading this and being an attorney and trying to have to defend this page-by-page, number-by-number, asset-by-asset, property-by-property, so we ll see. that was a mouthful, don, you were absolutely right. enjoy yourself. see you later. this is don lemon tonight and this really hasn t been a good 24 hours for donald trump. in large part because of this. but first off because of his hand picked special master basically told him to put up or shut up. now a federal appeals court is calling out his legal team for refusing to provide a shred of evidence for his claims that he declassified documents found in the search of mar-a-lago, so they re allowing the justice department to continue looking at those documents, upending a trial judge s order that the review be blocked, or block the review. and first on cnn, a source says that ginni thomas, a conservative activist, wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, agreeing to talk to the january 6th committee in
justice department to continue looking with those documents, upending a trial a trial judges, i should say, ordered, three of you be blocked, walk the review. and first on cnn, the sources that ginni thomas a conservative activist agreeing to talk to the january 6th committee in the coming weeks. and don t forget, that massive lawsuit against the former president, three of his adult children and the trump organization, alleging that their whole business is, essentially, a giant fraud. that s what these documents say. that s what they allege. letitia james, the attorney general of new york, says that the fraud was, and i quote here, approved at the highest levels of the trump organization, including by mr. trump himself. she alleges that eric trump, ivanka trump, and donald trump junior, knowingly participated in the schemes. she says trump and his company lied more than 200 times about the value of his assets, and she is seeking a quarter of a billion dollars, that s a bi
tax officials for more than a decade. now the new york attorney general wants the business dissolved. trump is also running out of options into the ongoing investigation of classified documents seized from his mar-a-lago estate. they ruled the doj can resume looking over those classified records. it no longer needs to submit items to the special master, rejecting arguments from trump s legal team. two of the judges on the panel were appoint bid trump. let s begin with kaitlyn polantz following the story. kaitlyn, it s a big win for the doj. what does this mean specific lip for their on going investigation of those classified documents, how they were held, why they were held and any criminal consequences? jim and poppy, the justice department now gets to do exactly what they wanted to be doing all along which is reviewing those 100 or so records taken out of mar-a-lago that have classified markings on them, and the federal appeals court that ruled last night, the major thi
documents that they re usually k kept under lock and key. the appeals court said the trump team s claims that the documents weren t declassified like this one if you re the president of the united states you can declassify anything you want. you can declassify it by saying it or thinking it because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever you re sending it. there doesn t have to be a process. the ruling came on the heals of a civil suit filed against donald trump and his family and business, the suit alleges a quarter billion dollars in financial fraud. we ll show you the stunning moment when trump didn t deny that key allegation. cnn senior legal analyst ellie honig is here to break down all of this. fill us in. a big win for doj they have their classified documents back. this started about two weeks ago when the district judge presiding over the case said ye we are going to have a special master. doj did not want that, they objected, they lost. the way this was g