northeast, accusing them of, quote, playing politics with human beings. they white house today the president is expected to personally meet for the first time with the families of brittney griner and paul whelan. the biden administration repeatedly saying securing their release from russian custody is top priority for him. let s begin this hour with our colleague katelyn polantz on the appointment of the special master to review the documents. it is a miracle as many pointed out that they agreed on someone, judge deary. i think the treat contentious issue that will lead to this appeal is what doj can and can t do as the special master goes through the stuff, right? right. and there is what this judge is able to do, whether she can or cannot do the things she s already done in this case. so the criminal investigation is paused, that s one thing judge aileen cannon did. the other thing is she has appointed special master judge raymond deary, he is a senior judge, very exp
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
It is the top of the hour. good morning, i m poppy harlow. and i m jim sciutto. right now we are watching these live pictures, they are migrants being loaded on buses. this is in martha s vineyard. and where they are going, we re told by massachusetts officials they ll be taken by bus and then by ferry to joint base cape cod where they will have food and shelter. they are there in the first place because florida governor ron desantis flew them there without advanced notice saying every community in america should be sharing in the burdens, end quote, of immigration. those people in d.c. and new york were beating their chest when trump was president saying they were so proud to be sanctuary jurisdictions, saying how bad it was to have a secure border. minute even a small fraction of what those border towns deal
Of the united states. we continue to release that flow right here on the border. we re putting in smaller communities. el paso is a population of 800,000 but we are limb the to one airport and a bus terminal so we don t have the capacity to keep up with the volumes. if the flow is going to continue, they could stand up a federal facility such as a military installation. we ve seen that happen with the afghan evacuation. and at this point, this is going to make the afghan operation look simple. that is the irony of this situation that we have right now. well to your point, for instance, those that go to martha s vineyard, now they re going to a national guard place in cape cod. thank you very much for joining us. thank you. today president biden is set to meet with the families of brittney griner and paul whelan both in custody in russia. this is the first meeting that the president will have with their families. this message from the