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Now both lawyers are crucial in the january 6th criminal investigation. there is a lot to get to tonight. i want to begin with evan perez in washington. so evan, let s talk about this mar-a-lago ruling, the special master that was so crucial to all of this in september, and now a stunning ruling, right, significant ruling about the special master. what does it mean? well, it means that the justice department, erin, that the justice department investigation can continue unfettered, because this the earlier ruling from the lower court judge aileen cannon, that had essentially acted to impede what the justice department was trying to do, which was review these documents, pursue this criminal investigation into the alleged mishandling of classified information. and what the former president was asking was special treatment. that s plain and simple what he was asking for. and the 11th circuit, two judges who were appointed by the former president, and a third one, another republican app ....
He can probably go to the supreme court. we ll see whether he does that in the case of the ruling against him in his the former lawyers of the white house. he can also appeal to the appeals court here in washington. but he has been losing and losing big in all of these cases. all right. well, evan, thank you very much. so let s go to ryan goodman, just security co-editor in chief. and john dean, former nixon white house counsel. you ve read through the 21 pages here. what is your reaction to the ruling about the special master first? it is a stunning rebuke of the judge cannon opinions, and it s a stunning rebuke of trump s legal teams arguments on which he based those opinions. it s very difficult to think of examples like this in a professional career of any district court judge to be so strongly repudiated by the court of appeals. and they ve done it in such a solid manner terms of saying ....
He ll have to make under the rubric of the justice department with merrick garland at the top. right. okay. thank you very much, evan. of let s go to christian holmes now. kw you ve been speaking to your sources around the former president. what are they telling you about trump s mind set and what we should expect to hear from him. he s made a decision to respond tonight? we re told the former president was angry before the announcement at the prospect of a special counsel. this of course, having to do with his relationship or his experience with robert mueller and he believed that this would draw out these investigations. that anger has just continued. now, if this statement is anything like what we saw in that fox digital interview, it will be a lot of ranting, talking about how this is political. talking about how he is the ....
Weaponization of the justice system, the fbi, and the doj. well, trump has good reason to be afraid. prosecutors sent out several new subpoenas related to both investigations in recent days, and the deadlines on some of those subpoenas are as early as next week. they re not waiting until after the thanksgiving holiday. they re doing it right away. and we re learning from multiple sources that some of the people in trump s orbit who were subpoenaed in the doj january 6th probe at this point have recently been given dates in the near future to appear before the grand jury. and many had hoped and believed the investigation had slowed or stopped. you thought it had gone away because you had not heard from the doj in weeks. then sort of lying there in wait, all of it comes out. we have all the angles covered on this tonight. i want to start with evan perez in washington. this is a historically significant move, right? a special counsel on criminal investigations into a former president of ....
Mare rick garland named veteran prosecutor jack smith to take over the mar-a-lago investigation. he ll also handle key elements of the january 6th investigation as they relate to mr. trump. mr. smith has held numerous posts at the justice department and has served as chief prosecutor in a special court in the hague where he investigated war crimes. for more on friday s announcement from the justice department here is cnn s evan perez in washington. attorney general merrick garland appointed war crimes prosecutor jack smith to serve as special counsel to oversee two criminal investigations related to donald trump. now, the decision was triggered in part by the former president s decision in recent days to declare a third run as a presidential candidate. smith most recently worked as a prosecutor in the hague overseeing kosovo war crimes. he ll take over investigations stemming from the alleged mishandling of classified ....