documents that they re usually k kept under lock and key. the appeals court said the trump team s claims that the documents weren t declassified like this one if you re the president of the united states you can declassify anything you want. you can declassify it by saying it or thinking it because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever you re sending it. there doesn t have to be a process. the ruling came on the heals of a civil suit filed against donald trump and his family and business, the suit alleges a quarter billion dollars in financial fraud. we ll show you the stunning moment when trump didn t deny that key allegation. cnn senior legal analyst ellie honig is here to break down all of this. fill us in. a big win for doj they have their classified documents back. this started about two weeks ago when the district judge presiding over the case said ye we are going to have a special master. doj did not want that, they objected, they lost. the way this was g
that ruling came down hours after new york s attorney general hit the former president with a lawsuit accusing him, his family, their firm of years of fraud. now, in the mar-a-lago documents case the appeals court ruled the doj can now resume its review of classified documents seized from trump s home, and that overturns an earlier ruling that had paused the criminal investigation. let s go to cnn s jessica schneider. jessica, the appellate court, they had problems, several problems with arguments from the trump attorneys. yeah, they did. and this is a unanimous three-judge panel including two trump appointees. and they really did, victor, seem to take down the arguments from trump s legal team on every level. so the first thing they did is they said that by not allowing doj to incorporate these 100 classified documents into the criminal review the court said in their words it would impose real and significant harm on the united states and on the public since as the doj sai
were appointed by trump, said the justice department can resume its review of classified documents taken from mar-a-lago. the judges also called out the claims that the former president may have declassified documents that were seized pointing out there s no proof. this appeals court decision is one of two major legal blows for the former president in a single day. the new york attorney general filed a lawsuit against trump, his family and firm alleging wi wide-ranging fraud involving some of his properties and other assets. evan perez joins us now. evan, you have some new details. the special master, the independent oversear of the evidence, is putting some pressure on the trump team. explain. yeah, just in the past hour we have an order from raymond dearie, the senior judge serve agz the independent third party that is going to look through these 11,000 pages of documents. remember, this is something that donald trump himself and his lawyers had asked for. and now he is s
pro punishing protesters forcing some to fight in the very war they want to stop. and crisis of democracies, a warning to the world from french president macron, and his message to donald trump after being wrapped up in the mar-a-lago case. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. and we begin with our politics lead. and just in, special master of the trump mar-a-lago documents case opens the door to hearing witness testimony. this, coming after yet another legal defeat for former president donald trump. three judges from the 11th circuit court of appeals unanimously reversed district judge aleene cannon s decision. three-judge panel, one obama and three trump appointees. a special master s review of that subset, about 100 records is now partially stopped after judge cannon amended her ruling today. and just a short time ago, a special master deliver a new order to trump s legal team to prove one notable aspect in the former president s public claims. an in
300,000 additional troops will be called up to fight. this comes as russia has suffered ahumiliating losses to ukraine with troops retreating from territory. putin used his most direct language to date regarding the possible use of nuclear weapons. translator: this is not a bluff. the citizens of russia can be sure that the territorial integrity of our homeland, our independence and freedom will be ensured. those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the prevailing winds can turn in their direction. the comments come across the backdrop of the u.n. general assembly here in new york. president biden set to speak just hours for now, as multiple kremlin backed authorities announced referendums on joining russia this week. ukraine and its allies dismissed the moves as a sham driven by fear of defeat. i want to bring in kylie atwood here in new york, nick paton walsh is live in ukraine for us. this speech we thought it was going to happen yesterday, i