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Decide that an abundance of caution is appropriate here. if i were looking at this, the law would favor not putting a special master, because the government argues that this is in trumps property anyway. this is property that belongs to the united states. his assertions of executive privilege are without merit, and as the justice department argued, to an extent, which he doesnt, it is a qualified privilege and it would be outweighed by this new to assess the damage. >> yeah, there is a question ...

Will sound some of the critics, but there is a real cost of that. that is not really addressed here. what they say is that those two things are inconsistent. but i dont think they are. what they are saying is that the fbi did the initial review of this to segregate out items protected by the attorney client privilege but now, they need to do is separate damage assessment. i think that is the reason that the justice department opposes this. nonetheless, the judge may decide that an abundance of c...

Assertions about attorney/client privilege executive privilege and what documents are, quote, highly personal, including medical conditions. thats not the way a special master review works. the fact that they want to see every page here but dont want anyone else to see the detailed inventory they called for, that reeks to me, that smells fishy. >> let me play this from fox news last night. >> everyone who knows president trumps office, they have guests frequently there, its a joke. they literall...

Merrick garland would sign off on it if he ever read it. as a former judge, he is familiar with special masters, they are regularly appointed, extension of the authority of the court, to create a record for the court to render decisions on the merits of motions. i was astonished by the absolutism of the doj statement. i think it undermined their credibility. i expect the judge will appoint a special master. if i was drafting that doj filing i would have definitely thrown a flag on the play and s...

Motivated. i wasnt given a reason in this case for why they wont be paying these bills, but trump is on his own when it comes to paying for his defense here. >> hes been raising an awful lot of money, more than $100 million off of this stuff. so theres plenty of money for him to defend himself. so peter baker, all of these new filings from the justice department seem to ratchet up the pressure on merrick garland to do something about this. many legal experts and observers weve talked to say just...

Thats another thing that has to be sorted by the justice department in the judge. and its actually a very, very complicated. question now, it certainly should not be donald trump. but then, what do you do with them in any event? but it is not just something you can say, they do not belong to him, you just have to fill that out in a very complicated way. >> right, george, what do you see as team trumps strategy here? are they just trying to hold up the investigation through any legal challenge? >...

Mar-a-lago home, also a, with the justice department revealing it has now completed the initial review of the documents it recovered. nbc news senior washington correspondent hallie jackson has the latest. >> reporter: a new phase this morning in the justice departments investigation into classified documents former president trump had at his mar-a-lago home. with doj lawyers confirming theyve done an initial review of what was there and have identified some material that could be considered pro...

Checking their assertions of privilege, and also giving us fair, timely access, letting us build a case for why this search warrant was morally and legally wrong. >> with us now to talk about this, julie agely and paul butler, now a professor at the georgetown university law center. hes also an msnbc legal analyst. so julia, now that the justice department says its review is over, what comes next? >> thats right. the fbi has finished going through what they would call establishing their filter t...

Affidavit redacted to be released. i gotta ask you about this investigation into this classified document. the former president kept that former president at mar-a-lago resort. cnn is reporting that bidens white house counsels office, at some point, defer to the national archives for the termination of how to handle trumps protected assertions of privilege or what have you over these documents. who in the white house knew about this investigation? because the president has been adamant that he k...

Other than anyone who just doesnt love seeing black lines on paper is just going to be really hard to find. >> abby there are limitations, given limitations, we should be clear, we dont think were necessarily going to see any of this today, but what is the potential impact if and when some of this does go public? >> well, you know, i -- it is unclear because we dont know what might be revealed, but you have to think that a lot of this has already come out in various forms. i mean, the trump team...