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Is deciding whether to grant trumps request for a special master, a third party, to review the seized classified documents from his home. the justice department announced its initial review did turn up what could be protected by the lawyer client privilege. barbara, how concerned would you be if you are the justice department that trump is using delaying tactics, asking for the master, who could slow it all down? >> i think the one concern that i would have here, andrea, is it could slow down th...

Democrat stacey abrams. big news for the investigations this morning. >> no question. nick valencia, thank you very, very much. >> reporter: you bet. we also have some other news just in to cnn. this regarding former president trumps request for a so-called special master to review those documents. we have more now. whats the latest? >> reporter: we just saw a filing from the justice department come into the docket in this case today, the justice department updating the judge saying that they ...

There is a team procedure set up in place regarding attorney/client privilege documents where the judge is the ultimate decider there. so i have trouble seeing that being granted here. >> do you see that as just simply buying time or trying in some way to kind of color public opinion just by, you know, the former president putting it out there? >> i think the latter. it really, that last filing regarding the special master really was the sort of thing that i would not let a junior lawyer under m...

Their basis for probable cause? what were people afraid of? were they people who had a hand, who were fearful they might be accused? theres a lot of questions and i suspect its under these black lines well see. bradley moss, john wood, phil mudd, thank you so much. i want to go back to jessica schneider with the new information on another legal front in this investigation. jessica, whats going on. >> coming in just moments ago, we finally got that response from the trump team that had been direc...

Down on anything no matter how bonkers or false it is, he gets away with it. >> right, and he has been all over the place on this. and nick, i mean, but he hasnt explained why he had the documents, and nick, trumps attorneys submitted a filing last night further explaining their request that an independent special master review these materials recovered by the fbi. do you think the judge will actually do that? why comply with that request? >> theres no good reason to comply with that request. ba...

President trump on friday to refine his arguments, this squ for a special master to review these documents. we should note there was already a review team of a sort, a filter team thats going through these documents to see if there are those that fall into the category of attorney/client privilege here. i mean, paul, do you see this in your experience as something thats going to go somewhere? that a special master may indeed be assigned? >> i think this motion has been made way too late in the g...

Because your playing against yourself, right. when you offer these alternative theories. i dont believe the judge will buy that he has sovereign immunity because hes not being sued, that means somebody is trying to sue a government official for performing some duty that is within the scope of their official duty. so that dog likely wouldnt hunt. and i dont think the executive privilege claim will fair much better. there was also some reporting that he was going to argue attorney/client privilege...

Distraction tactic? >> i think its probably the latter. the idea of a special master is something that is done usually when it involves attorney/client privilege, if a lawyers office is searched for example and there may be things relating to other clients. michael cohens office was subject to a special master review. here, i think one reason is that donald trump is not asserting attorney/client privilege but executive privilege, which that archives letter says belongs to the current executive. ...

In a certain sense it makes sense, michael cohen, he was an attorney, there may be privileged documents there. here though theres no client privilege, hes asserting executive privilege which is bizarre. as i mentioned a moment ago the branch trying to seize the document goes is the executive branch. the current executive branch is trying to get its own documents back. in this context i think on the merits theres no good argument for a special master here. could trump get one out of deference to ...

Freeze proceedings, go to the judge and get a ruling in the middle of things. they can push it later. i think, quite likely, it forced every single question on him, so that the grand jury could hear him answer every single question. but he either invoked the fifth amendment or attorney client privilege. >> gwen keyes fleming, tell me what you know about how these grand juries work -- whatever fani willis is options if rudy giuliani comes in there and does take the fifth amendment hundreds of tim...