supremacist violence is the greatest domestic troor threat today. speaking of threats, former president trump took an ominous term when asked what happened if he is indicted for mishandling classified documents. and a marathon negotiation session prevented a rail strike. it left some of those workers wondering what exactly they have gained from the deal. good morning. welcome to way too early. on this friday. september 16th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. a federal judge has appointed a special master, or third party, to review the documents that the fbi seized from former president donald trump s mar-a-lago home and club in palm beach, florida. judge cannon named raymond deery as the special master. he is a senior u.s. district judge for the eastern district of new york. trump s attorney s proposed him and the other side submitted they re professional. judge cannon specifically laid out the special masters duties including a privileged revie
on his fledgling social media site truth social, the former president last month shared a video of comments made by his close allies senator lindsey graham of south carolina predicting there would be quote riots in the streets if trump is prosecuted. let s turn overseas where russia s vladimir putin met with china s leader xi jingping for the first in-person meeting since moscow invade the ukraine. the two met on the sidelines of the shanghai cooperation organization where several other leaders including those from iran, and ia and pakistan also took part. according to the new york times, the meeting did not seem to go all that well for putin. while xi initially pledged a friendship with no limits, just three weeks before russia invaded ukraine, the chinese president withheld any public support for putin s war yesterday. he acknowledged that china had quote questions and concerns about the invasion, a notable admission that moscow may lack
before a judge had no idean he didn t even bother to guess because honestly he didn t really care. but we do care. d we ve got a theory and here it is. if you look at the numbers, you will notice that traffic deathst among african-americans in the year 2020 surged in the monthth of june, fatalities among black drivers in june. 2020 were fully 55% higher than they were in june of 2019. you never see increases like that . what could have happened? well let s see. he was in the last week of mayed of 2020 that a convicted felon called george floyd died in police custody in minneapolis and afterol that you ll recall everything changed. what changedl most of all was how we regard the rule of c law as russ martin of the governor s highway safety association put it, floyd s death quote accelerated national discussion about equity in transport d and that discussion would include quote questions about enforcement. oh , there it is right there. that s the answer. cops across the country were tol