they were supposed to be taking at least one senate vote today, but then they all got slid into tomorrow because of the storm. that said, this afternoon the capitol physician the doctor for the house in the senate sent a sobering detailed letter to the democratic and republican leaders of the senate. telling them that you know, regardless of the stall, senators ought to be staying home now anyway. apparently, the covid testing sites they have set up at the u.s. capitol, the positivity rate, the rate at which tests that are coming back positive, it had been under 1%, until recently, until the omicron wave of the virus started to hit in d.c.. the capital physician advised senators today that as of right now, the positivity rate at that testing that has gone from under 1% to over 13%. he described the number of covid cases on capitol hill right now as, quote, unprecedented. saying, quote, thousands of individual with coronavirus infections identified at the capitol daily. this i
on, and sat down. you know the breaking news beckons. yeah when, the breaking news beckons. thank you, victor, i ll see you tomorrow. this is don lemon tonight, and won t be long now, because it s got to happen before midnight, any minute now we re expecting the doj s response to team trump s request for a special master to drop. and this is not just some routine paperwork, it s going to get a lot here. it s gonna be a, doozy so you want to stay tuned. again, it s supposed to happen before midnight, so it s supposed to happen in the hours that were on. now the justice department got special permission from the judge to submit an extra long response, up to 40 pages, twice as long as a usual 20-page lemon. the doj says they need to quote, adequately address the legal and factual issues raised by trump s filings. what is in those 40 something pages? we should know soon. but those factual issues, it certainly sounds intriguing, doesn t it? so remember, this is all about tru
sensitive. officials say these were taken from mar-a-lago even after donald trump s team claimed they had handed over everything. i m john berman with brianna keilar. while you were hopefully sleeping the most comprehensive filing yet from the department of justice, explaining what they found at mar-a-lago, why they executed a search warrant. the government says it developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room at mar-a-lago and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. and when they searched the government seized twice as many documents marked classified as the trump team had given them when they claimed they handed over everything. the filing included this photo, documents that had yellow tabs, red tabs, you can see right there, marked secret, top secret, sensitive. these were taken from containers and they were spread out on the floor by the fbi. this is how the fbi chose to display them
look in the storage records and then they find these three files, three classified documents, in trump s desk drawer. so certainly laying out the case that this was justified. they also on this issue because this is really about whether a special master and third party can review these documents, they re saying these aren t trump s documents to review, they belong to the american people. there is no executive privilege. trump never asserted executive privilege at any point along the process until the search warrant was executed. they re saying that, you know, to permit a special master to get involved at this point could cause unnecessary significant harm because there s also a you have the intelligence agencies to see what was in these documents and whether there is any potential harm to sources and methods. thank you for helping us just begin to understand what s in here. a lot that we did not know yesterday at this time. thank you so much. and joining us now is cnn
investigation. and when they searched, the government seized twice as many documents marked classified as the trump team had given them when they claimed they had handed over everything. and the filing included this photo, documents you can see, the red cover sheets, the yellow cover sheets, recovered from containers spread out on the floor by the fbi and the classified markings are clear, top secret, secret, highly classified information there, brianna. that s right. the fbi seized 33 boxes containing more than 100 classified documents during its search earlier this month. three of those classified documents were not found in boxes, but in trump s desk. and for all of those reasons the justice department vehemently opposes trump s request to appoint a special master to oversee the documents. the trump legal team has until tonight to respond to this latest doj filing. at a hearing on thursday, a judge will hear arguments before making her final decision on whether or not to