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new charges against steve bannon this morning, welcome to viewers here in the united states and all around the world. long-time trump adviser and ally steve bannon expected to surrender to prosecutors in new york thursday to face state charges related to his fundraising effort to build a wall along the southern border. bannon allegedly defrauded donors who contributed to a we build the wall campaign. the crowd-funded border wall raised more than $25 million. according to prosecutors bannon falsely told donors that all the money contributed would go toward the construction effort. bannon in a statement calls the indictment phoney charges and a partisan political weaponization of the criminal justice system. federal prosecutors charged bannon with the same alleged crime in 2020 but president trump pardoned bannon as he was leaving office. presidential pardons do not apply to state investigations, of course. cnn s kara scannell is joining us now with the details. what s ....
calls quote extraordinary measures to avoid defaulting on our debt. which looks a lot more likely now that the most conservative wing of the republican party seems to have a tightening vice around speaker kevin mccarthy. if they can keep the government open, the republican party is gearing up for a series of investigations into president biden. what they just announced a couple of moments ago, in a second. one of the investigations, the president himself, all about hand-delivered to them, wrapped in a shiny bow, the white house is facing hard questions about why it was not more transparent about the discovery of classified documents, and not one, but two locations. especially as the president himself was criticizing the former president for mishandling his own classified documents. white house lawyers say the number of documents found is small and nbc news has just confirmed what one of them was marked with. what we know about that document in a moment. and what exactly ....
to school for the first time since the shooting massacre. still fearful and anxious despite new moves to try to help them feel safe. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, as the search for a special master begins, the decision to give former president trump what he wanted is under fire. the former trump attorney general bill barr declaring the judge s opinion is wrong and deeply flawed, once again contradicting his ex-boss. cnn s sara murray is following all the new twists in the legal fight over the classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. reporter: tonight donald trump s own former attorney general is urging the justice department to appeal. the opinion i think was wrong, and i think the government should appeal it. i don t think the appointment of a special master is going to hold up. reporter: a judge has put on hold the justice department s review of documents an ....
you re gonna just have to watch the show to get that line. it s about four minutes away. it s going to be. here i m waiting. i ll be here for. it for more minutes, you hear. it thank, you alex. the trump appointed judge, and the appropriately titled case donald j trump against united states of america, gave donald trump just about everything else for. in an order appointing a special master to examine all of the evidence seized by the fbi from donald trump s florida residents. the one good thing in the judge s ruling is naming raymond diary as the special master in the case. he was the only possible special master who was acceptable to both sides, and if raymond diary is, actually does carry out his duties as the special master, he is, by all accounts, an honorable federal judge who would handle his responsibilities in this case honorably, and professionally, and as expeditiously and responsibly as possible. he is the only good thing in this judges ruling, whi ....
for more minutes, you hear. it thank, you alex. the trump appointed judge, and the appropriately titled case donald j trump against united states of america, gave donald trump just about everything else for. in an order appointing a special master to examine all of the evidence seized by the fbi from donald trump s florida residents. the one good thing in the judge s ruling is naming raymond diary as the special master in the case. he was the only possible special master who was acceptable to both sides, and if raymond diary is, actually does carry out his duties as the special master, he is, by all accounts, an honorable federal judge who would handle his responsibilities in this case honorably, and professionally, and as expeditiously and responsibly as possible. he is the only good thing in this judges ruling, which, of course, should not even include the order of a special master. the judge refused the justice department s request to withhold 100 classified do ....