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Election, in particular they were trying to come up with ways to prove that there was vote fraud in georgia to be able to turn that election there. that is of keen interest to this grand jury. we know that meadows was on that one phone call where trump was talking to brad raffensperger in georgia trying to find the exact number of votes that he needed to be able to win. in georgia -- he also went down to georgia to sit in on an audit that was happening in one of the counties there. theres plenty...

Months but only 60 $500. the justice department was already asking for $200,000. unfortunately, the judge appointed by donald trump, who is a former clerk for justice clarence thomas gave bannon a slap on the wrist, which she sort of touted in his courts have steps. >> what do you think that was? what was the legal basis for going so cleanly on the benin to find the subpoena? >> i was surprised, the judge put the difference in terms at the request, because the justice department was asking for s...

Then emails that you receive or send, they refer to the issue where you are providing them with legal advice they would be covered under either the attorney client privilege or the attorney were client privilege. except if you for instance chart to obtain advice in order to commit a crime. thats what judge carter said here is more likely than not. he found that both with respect to a verification that the former president had signed in court that said, yes, i think that there were more than 15,0...

Was clear he was stonewalling them in trying to uncover a lot of documents. thats why they dont want to go back to that adversarial process in at all possible. >> i want to turn your attention to this remarkable ruling by the judge over an email. judge carters decision actually sides with eastman about most of the documents saying theyre either covered by lawyer/client privilege or written in preparation that protects them. those emails are damning. the judge writes this. the emails show that pr...

Privilege, which means that it must be a government document, and youve told me its a personal document. metaphysically it cannot be both. he doesnt say those words -- >> its no venn diagram where they overlap. >> reporter: another one he says there are a number of records youve said is attorney/client privilege, but there is a third party involved so how can it be attorney/client privilege? and a strange letter apparently sent from the trump lawyers to the justice department. and he says to the...

Come forth in their pleadings or with their witness testimony or anyone they have been willing to offer under oath whos willing to go on record and say that there actually was a declassification either before or recorded, memorialized after the fact. so it doesnt seem like they actually have facts upon which to make that argument. and i think they are in this difficult position arguing about classification, when really the justification that they offer for requesting a special master to begin wi...

Today, they will make the same request to the appeals court in atlanta. so there is a number of scenarios that could happen here. she does grant the doj what they want, they still intend to appeal her whole order. they filed a notice to do that. but this would give them the latitude to start using those classified documents in their investigation and resume the damages assessment which they say is on hold right now and which is harming national security. she could rule against them and decline t...

Special place. because donald trump had no right to them. they are not his personal records. theyre government records. theres no possible claim of attorney/client privilege, the justice department is saying. though the judge held out some theoretical possibility that some of them could be covered by executive privilege, the justice department says, even if that were true, the nixon supreme court watergate case says a criminal investigation holds sway here. we need these documents. interestingly...

Before, that they are very, very high-level, highly classified documents found in mar-a-lago, nuclear secrets are among the most closely held in government, of course. this is consistent with whats been held out there, but with more detail i wonder how its getting, out and who is leaking it. i think its problematic that those are coming from inside the government. but in terms of the governments case, listen, this is the kind of document that you would charge a case about, and its not a document...

They should be able to find someone who can do this and the request he is which of these saps do they need to be read into to even look at these classified documents which inherently are not subject to executive privilege or attorney/client privilege. we can just put that aside, but the special master in theory would look at all of them and would need to be read into some of these very fightly held compartments. >> david, in the doj filing it made last week one of the things things it said in it...