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indictments will, not could or might, but will spark rioting in the streets. john berman in for anderson. and whatever you make of the thinly veiled threat of political violence, you should know it comes from a republican member of the senate judiciary committee. lindsey graham speaking to grey gowdy. >> ill say this, if theres a prosecution of donald trump for mishandling classified information after the clinton debacle, which you presided over and did a hell of a good job, there woul...

cnn has learned that christina bobb was at least one of the people giving those assurances, even signing a letter saying so. the doj filing goes on to say the documents were, quote, likely concealed and remove frd a storage room at mar-a-lago as an effort to, quote, obstruct, unquote, the fbi investigation. it says that some recovered items were so classified that even some fbi counterintelligence personnel and others needed additional security clearances to review them. so, thats for ...

Justice departments argument that trump has no standing to ask this special master. so, theyre trying to lean back into that, saying that, of course, he has a privacy interest in his residence, and they have to kind of gloss over the fact that he may not have any property rights in the materials. >> based on what you can tell, is this more about the special master argument, or is this more about responding to the other new factual details that doj laid out yesterday? >> this is a reiteration lea...

Special master. that is that third party attorney, someone, typically maub a retired judge. that is going to be the situation at hand tomorrow when trumps legal team is in court, including the new attorney they just added, the former solicitor general of florida, someone theyve been seeking to have florida experience on their case, given so much of this of course is happening in florida where his home is and where this search happened. they still want that special master master. and basically th...

For these documents gove. go get it, kaitlan. stand by. josh campbell, back to you. the trump team is arguing they should be able to reaccess, get back some of the documents that were seized. >> yeah, this is exactly in line with what shannon was describing, that this appears to be a broad request the trump team is making. its notable here because in this filing in the court, what basically the trump team is asking is that this special master, if he or she is assigned to this case, the trump tea...

From the portion of the affidavit that was released -- had laid out a team process. so, a separate team, separate from the main investigative team that was designed to review privileged materials, which is a standard practice when they think they may encounter attorney/client privilege materials. the fact theyve already gone through them, advised the judge who approved the warrant in advance of using that team really makes the arguments in favor of a special master much less strong. and they wer...

Described to you. the bureau would have looked through all those materials, pulled out those that are fbi documents, or things that were classified in the course of fbi investigations, and of course handed out the other is. so, any other cia materials, nsa materials, those would have been sent back to the home agencies. and theyll have compiled the results of that classification review and damage assessment. >> so, separate issue here. the fact that the justice department has come forward and sa...

Knew, but hadnt really been confirmed in the way that trump did yesterday. the second thing he said, was that michael cohen is primarily a businessman. and the more michael cohen is primarily a businessman, the less his advice constitutes attorney/client privilege materials. and then of course, trumps comment that michael cohen handled a tiny, tiny percentage of legal work for him. consider that yesterday in the southern district of new york, in the courthouse, the entire argument was that there...