stashed at his retirement home in mar-a-lago. a federal appeals court, just before we went to air, just ruled in favor of the justice department. the justice department can have access to roughly 100 highly sensitive classified documents that were taken from mar-a-lago. immediately we saw the appeals court issue this ruling. i was stunned to see it come out so quickly. it s worth taking a step back and recognizing just how extraordinary this moment, this day is. it was almost easy to forget that trump had never actually been indicted. never been sued, you know, by the state entity or anything like that, but today, things look different. that is where we pick things up this morning, on top of the legal setbacks from donald trump comes news from the january 6th committee that the wife of supreme court justice, ginni thomas has agreed to meet with the committee about her efforts to overturn the 2020 election. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it s thursday, joe and m
to school for the first time since the shooting massacre. still fearful and anxious despite new moves to try to help them feel safe. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, as the search for a special master begins, the decision to give former president trump what he wanted is under fire. the former trump attorney general bill barr declaring the judge s opinion is wrong and deeply flawed, once again contradicting his ex-boss. cnn s sara murray is following all the new twists in the legal fight over the classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. reporter: tonight donald trump s own former attorney general is urging the justice department to appeal. the opinion i think was wrong, and i think the government should appeal it. i don t think the appointment of a special master is going to hold up. reporter: a judge has put on hold the justice department s review of documents and othe
crossing the southern border soars. and as some republican governors resort to political stunts with people s lives, we ll talk about that. later this morning, former secretary of state hillary clinton will be our guest. we look forward to talking with her as well. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, september 16th. along with joe, willie and me, we have u.s. special correspondent for bb news, katty kay in london, and the host of way too early white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, also with us the president of the national action network and host of politics nation, reverend al sharpton joins us this morning. you know what people say about our show, that morning joe show is the most mindful show, we teach everybody that two things can be true at one time. we re not always that mindful. we re going to be talking about that. we re going to be talking about the crisis at the southern border, and by the way, i understand every t
a single corrupt computer file brought all of america s air traffic to a complete halt. how did it get there? and more republicans call for resume faker george santos to quit congress but not the republican with the power to push him out. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. good morning. we begin with a second batch of classified documents found by president biden s legal team. they found the first batch from mr. biden s time as vice president set off the search for this new discovery. it s unclear how many documents were in the second batch, where they were found or what they re even about. cnn s phil mattingly has more from the white house. reporter: as president biden and the white house counsel s office described the initial discovery of ten classified documents, documents that were turned over to the national archives and the justice department, justice department review ongoing, they never actually weighed in on
bad news. lindsey graham in his attempts to dodge a subpoena to appear before the fulton county grand jury in an effort to overturn the election results in georgia. a federal judge refusing to put a hold on the ruling. we re also getting new information about concerns inside the biden white house and the intelligence community about classified information taken to mar-a-lago. joining me now to discuss legal analyst and federal prosecutor elliot waylens and also joining us palm beach county state attorney dave aaronberg. we have a whole law firm spread happening right now. i love it. who are we billing right now? we don t know. i ll begin with you, elliot, here. it is just a week ago we learned from the court that trump was keeping top secret, highly classified documents at mar-a-lago. then we find out the doj interviewed two top white house lawyers about it. early next week we may learn what is in the affidavit that made it so urgent for them to seize this material. when yo