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indicating human intelligence sources, this was found in a box or some sort of crate and container. hammering home the extreme sensitivities that trump took from the white house. the justice department laying out a series of objections to trumps request among them that he lacks standing to even participate in the case because the materials seized by the fbi do not belong to him, they belong to the united states government. the department also describes an effort to obstruct the fbis in...

former presidents legal team, slows down the investigation into the thousands of pages from mar-a-lago on august 8th, hundreds marked classified. after a nearly two-hour court session and a long weekend to think about it, she made her decision writing a special master shall be appointed to review the seized property, manage assertions of privilege and make recommendtations and evaluate claims for the return of property. she continues the government is en joined from further review and ...

election interference, what hes saying and when he might go under oath. developing news overseas, putting europe on edge. international inspectors on their way to that nuclear power plant coming under fire in ukraine. the fears growing over a possible radiation disaster. our team there on the ground with a live report for you. meantime, good afternoon to all of you. im alex witt, in for hallie jackson here in new york. im joined by ken dilanian, as well as msnbc legal analyst kelly...

i am simone sanders thompson, and i have something to say. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we finally have new details about documents the fbi seized at mar-a-lago earlier last month. as part of an investigation into donald trumps potential violations of the espionage act and the presidential records act. okay, here is a refresher. trump railed against the fbis execution of the legally issued search warrant, and filed for the appointment of what is called a special master which ...

Are searched. of course, in an attorneys office, you would expect to find a lot of attorney client privileged material. some of it perhaps relating to the investigation that is underway. but a great deal of it belonging to third parties who simply arent involved. so the use of an outside special master to preserve the privilege in those cases makes a lot of sense, and it is, i dont want to say frequently simone, but it is done when it is necessary. this is not that situation. this is not an atto...

Normally a special master is involved to separate out attorney/client privileged material, but here trump is claiming executive privilege for his documents. is that stretch for him? >> i think it is a stretch. and i think that the governments brief laid out pretty clearly why that is a stretch. essentially you cant claim executive privilege when an executive branch of government is trying to confiscate or look at documents. executive privilege exists to protect the executive branch from other br...