with every day is brought to their front door, they all of a sudden go berserk and they re so upset this is happening. president biden responded overnight, accusing desantis and others of quote, playing politics with human beings. suggesting that those governors such as desantis should not interfere in the immigration process. instead of working with us on solutions, republicans are playing politics with human beings using them as props. what they re doing is simply wrong. it is unamerican, it is wreckless. the u.s. attorney for massachusetts will speak with the justice department about desantis transporting migrants to martha s vineyard as other atlantics are calling for an investigation. we ll take you there live in just in a moment. but we begin with a set back for the justice department in one of the investigations. a judge has named a special master to review documents seized at mar-a-lago but it paused the criminal investigation into classified materials confiscat
to get out. the red on this map shows the mandatory evacuations as of one hour ago. basically the low lying areas near the water. ian is getting strzokker. florida governor said it is 500 miles wide at the moment and he adds that the storm surge and heavy rains will impact the entire state. we will see on the gulf coast of florida heavy rains, strong winds, flash flooding, storm surge and perhaps isolated tornado activity and that is true regardless of the precise track that this takes. don t think because the eye may not be in your area you won t see impacts. you will see significant impacts. these counties expected to see a lot of water and a lot of flooding. the governor activated 5,000 members of the florida national guard and another 2,000 from other states. cnn meteorologist tom sater is here with the latest on ian s path. where will it make landfall? in cuba within 200 miles of that. still a category 1. it is over the warmest waters of the atlantic. we had rapid
judge cannon seems to say that a former president might be different in her view than a regular joe. quoting her now, as plaintiff articulated at the hearing, the investigation and treatment of a former president is of unique interest to the general public, and the country is best served by an orderly process that promotes the interest and perception of fairness. unique interest, she writes, before granting what the former attorney general under president trump, no less, recently said this about. well, i think the whole idea of a special master is a bit of a red herring at this stage since they ve already gone through the documents. i think it s a waste of time. agree or disagree with that notion and whatever you might think of how judge cannon arrived at her decision, we ll talk about what it portends with our legal experts in just a moment. first, cnn s sara murray who has all the latest on the ruling itself. walk us through what the judge issued today. reporter: as y
mar-a-lago. trump undoubtedly is hoping to get a favorable ruling from the courts six conservative justices, three of whom trump appointed. now, trump s lawyers are not explicitly trying to prevent doj investigators from looking at the documents taking from his beach club. but they are attempting to get the review of the documents back before the court appointed special master, which could potentially throw some sand in the gears of the departments investigation. despite recent reporting that trump s legal team was perhaps looking to soften its tone in this case, the filing today by trump s lawyers is filled with more angry screens against the department of justice. they accused the department of feigned concern about reported to pin some offense on trump. it is the latest in a series of aggressive and bellicose moves by trump, which he s employed for a very long time to move away from scandals and legal quandaries. and it s more evidence of the mindset with which he approa
, welcome to a holiday edition of the last word. 1934 congressional elections, because 2022 was the first time since 1934 that first term president saw every senator in his party reelected. every senator who is running. in 1934, first term democratic president franklin roosevelt sought every democratic senator running for ev election get reelected. president biden saw the same thing this year. and the democrats added a seat to their control of the senate when john fetterman won in pennsylvania. a very difficult state for democrats to win. as is arizona and georgia. but, democratic senate candidates won in those states to. from my race in arizona, i had wide support by republicans. republican mares and county supervisors, business leaders, law enforcement. you know, they ve come up to me frequently. but also, endorsed me. republican mayors. because, you know, they re tired of what they ve seen over the last, well, six years now. and they just want to get things done, an