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6th insurrection. wolf blitzer is off today, im p pamela brown and youre in "the situation room." and lets begin our coverage this hour with tonights top story. the justice department looking to file a response to donald trumps request for a third-party attorney to review materials seized from his florida home. cnns sara murray has this report. >> reporter: the justice department set to weigh in today on former president donald trumps push for an independent special master to review th...

himes, a member of the house intelligence committee, says thats not the only potential risk here. >> the affidavit contains all sorts of information, including testimony by informants, witnesses, and others that, now that we know that not just donald trump, but the republican party generally, will make threats, include threats on the lives of people, including fbi agents that are involved here, theres an awful lot of risk. >> so it would be unsealed or could be kept seal, but there is ...

Much they have been surveilling cohen? how thorough? has it been e-mails? texts? phone calls? what do we know? >> we know from public filings that they were able to do surveillance on his e-mails. the federal prosecute oorgs put that in open court. anybody with access or who wants to get the record can get it themselves. for that they had a filler team because there could be attorney client communications in that. they had a separate team look at that and hand over the relevant matters to the in...

Government would have had the filler team in place. they would have reviewed the documents. they might have seen sean hannitys communications, and said this is clearing nothing to do with this investigation, its privileged, therefore it should be returned to he coulden. >> and there is a chance nobody would have been the wiser. >> if you are hannity you are massively frustrated right now because this probably was not necessary. it was -- this fight by cohen for really extraordinary relief, which...