A preliminary intent to allow a neutral third party, typically a retired judge, to review the documents. The former president s attorney claims a Special Master is necessary to ensure the Justice Department returns any of trumps private belongings and documents covered by Attorney Client privilege. But, the Justice Department has indicated it is already using an internal filter team to review everything which was seized by the fbi. For now, cnns Political Correspondent sara murray live now, sara, and broad brushstrokes, when we look at in terms of the spots from the doj . We are looking overall, in terms of the legal argument, the Justice Department opposing with donald trump is looking for, which is a Special Master, an independent third party to overview these documents. The Justice Department is saying look, after the search they did on the president s residence in maralago at august, theyve already gone through those materials. Theyve already had a filter team set up to remove any
putin responsible for recent attacks in ukraine. but how? the lead starts right now. a global response as russia bombards ukraine with mass missile attacks for a second straight day. what the president just said about the aggression in an exclusive interview with jake tapper. also this hour, another cnn exclusive, one on one with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. his take on republicans chances of winning a majority in the midterms, plus the one question he refused to answer about donald trump. and the worst is yet to come. the new recession warning as top economists also predict exactly when the economic downturn will hit. hello and welcome to the lead. i m john berman in for jake tapper. we begin with world leaders pledging to stop russian president vladimir putin s reign of terror in ukraine. an emergency debate today at the united nations and the g7 heads of government including president joe biden on an emergency call with ukraine s president today, vowing
a preliminary intent to allow a neutral third party, typically a retired judge, to review the documents. the former presidents attorney claims a special master is necessary to ensure the justice department returns any of trump s private belongings and documents covered by attorney client privilege. but, the justice department has indicated it is already using an internal filter team to review everything which was seized by the fbi. for now, cnn s political correspondent sara murray live now, sara, and broad brushstrokes, when we look at in terms of the spots from the doj? we are looking overall, in terms of the legal argument, the justice department opposing with donald trump is looking for, which is a special master, an independent third party to overview these documents. the justice department is saying look, after the search they did on the presidents residence in mar-a-lago at august, they ve already gone through those materials. they ve already had a filter team set up
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terms of how he delivers a message. the latest example today, you know, face to face for the first time with the chinese president and one of the things that didn t come up, martha, the fact that a million americans died from were killed by a virus that started in china and our president didn t raise that issue. the white house read-out confirms that. you know, he said that he wasn t looking for confrontation with china. he should have been looking for confrontation on that issue. the only way that we re going to be assured another pandemic doesn t occur is if china is transparent with what happened with the world s scientists and virologists that can give us those answers. that s the kind of performance that gives everyone a lack of confidence in how president biden delivers messages on behalf of the united states national security interests. martha: it s stunning omission given what we ve gone through and the reason they haven t met for three years is