Lets go outfront. Good evening. Ou a cruel political stunt, those are the words from the white house after the Florida Governor ron desantis sent two planes full of migrants to the wealthy enclave of Marthas Vineyard. What they are doing is a political stunt, and its its really just disrespectful to humanity. It doesnt afford them dignity. It is just cruel. So heres what happened. 50 migrants, including children, arrived at the vacation destination with no warning, according to local officials. Planes just and landed thats who got off. Local leaders say theyre now trying to move heaven and earth to provide the families with food, clothing, and shelter. They have nothing. Its a challenge for an island that has only one Homeless Shelter with room for only ten people. As for governor ron desantis, he is proudly taking credit for this. We are not a sanctuary state, and its better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction. And yes, we will help facilitate that transport for you to go to
he s my guest. let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. ron desantis is vowing that his two flights of undocumented immigrants to martha s vineyard are just the beginning. these are just the beginning efforts. we ve got an infrastructure in place now. there s going to be a lot more than happening. we are going to use it, and you re going to see more and more. now, ironically that $12 million that he refers to is coming from interest earned on coronavirus aid funds, aid funds that came from president biden. well, you see how desantis is using it in his threat tonight. republicans and democrats are at an all-out war of words. they use them as political pawns, treated them like chattel in a cruel premeditated political stunt. if they will not go to the border, we re taking the border to them so they can see the challenges they are posing to the entire united states. what desantis is doing a disgrace. these communities are so hypocritical because they are n
as the biden administration right now works on a response to the republican governors who are sending these migrants across the country. let s begin with mj lee. what tune about the discussions happening behind you inside the white house right now? everything that you just described with the situation with migrants unexpectedly being bussed and flown to different places like martha s vineyard, everyone the vp s residence here in washington, d.c., of course white house officials have been monitoring that situation very closely. and one thing we expect to happen today is a meeting between white house and cabinet officials to basically discuss all important issues related to immigration. we certainly expect those topics to include the situation at the border and generally some of the issues that have come up in these places where he s groups of migrants are showing up are obviously the situations that created a big logistical and as well as humanitarian situation in all these
you too. thanks to you at home for being here. we have breaking news tonight, in the investigation into trump s handling of top secret classified government records that wound up at the florida beach club. and the special stay of the special master ruling, judge cannon ruled that she will appoint a special master, an independent third party to review the 11,000 seized records that the fbi retrieved from trump s lome 40 days ago, and in response, the justice department be grudgingly said okay, go ahead and appoint the special master but please exclude the roughly 100 classified documents seized from mar-a-lago because we need to continue the criminal investigation of the classified documents due to special national security interests. also aal second intelligence assessment into the potential risks and harms that may have been caused byat having those t secret classified documents hanging out at trump s club, the justice department argued that thatst assessment could not c
but, you know,. i ll just say, i m luckier than perhaps some of your viewers, because i usually get to touch base with you at least once a day, even without twitter. there you have it. have a great show. have a great weekend. thank you, nicole. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. this is one of those busy news fridays. we begin with the bombshell that s led trump s team to really be on alert or in damage control mode even though they have gotten some procedural steps, victories of sorts in this mar-a-lago case. now the news is, donald trump s team lied to the national archives long before they ever got his home searched. the washington post reports, the archives were actually told none of that material that remains a big issue in this criminal investigation was sensitive or classified at all, that trump had 12 boxes of news clippings. well, that s blatantly false. we know the fbi found hundreds of classified documents. we know this went way beyond news clippings.