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Privileged, attorney client privilege materials. let me just back up a moment. when the government applied for a search warrant. it suggested to the judge what it would do if the war was approved and how it would set up the filter team and what process the filter team would use. and the judge who approved the warranted approve those processes. once the warrant was executed, the government took the materials it seized right through the very process it had described the federal judge who approved ...

A preliminary intent to allow a neutral third party, typically a retired judge, to review the documents. the former presidents attorney claims a special master is necessary to ensure the justice department returns any of trumps private belongings and documents covered by attorney client privilege. but, the justice department has indicated it is already using an internal filter team to review everything which was seized by the fbi. for now, cnns political correspondent sara murray live now, sara,...

Master, whoever gets appointed. but right now, that is really what is at play. the thing is that trump, you know, he is not exerting attorney/client privilege. he is saying that there is executive privilege involved which is a whole different ball of wax. >> whole different ball of wax. and we know that that internal filter team is standard operating procedure. they go through and try to separate out that material. and we know the former president has asked for a special master to oversee the do...

This month. evan perez is live in washington for us now. the justice department was granted permission to file an even longer filing. more pages. double the amount than the limit usually set by the court. what are we expecting here? why do they need so much paper? >> it looks like they have a lot more to say. and i think part of the issue is that the justice department is trying to gently push back at this judge, politely pushed back, who inserted herself at the delight of the former president. ...

The interview i had with kevin back on friday. he an fbi man with great experience and particularly in national security matters, says that that search warrant was illegitimate, that i the investigation is illegitimate. the fbi doesnt belong in the middle of a civithl recordsn wee middle of a civithl recordsn with great experience int. the very matters were talkingwd about. i but lets talk about today. today the justice departmentn a walked in and said iwon the mosr scrutinized fbi search that w...

How closely watched it is. its something that happens all the time in ordinary cases, although as a general matter attorneys like to put in briefs and memos of law within the page limits prescribed by the court. on the one hand, as kara pointed out, the review is already done. one of the arguments the department of justice will likely make is that a special master is moot. the job is finished, the filter team has done its work, so they can be sure. they must feel strongly they dont want a specia...

Checking their assertions of privilege, and also giving us fair, timely access, letting us build a case for why this search warrant was morally and legally wrong. >> with us now to talk about this, julie agely and paul butler, now a professor at the georgetown university law center. hes also an msnbc legal analyst. so julia, now that the justice department says its review is over, what comes next? >> thats right. the fbi has finished going through what they would call establishing their filter t...

Privilege review team but also because this is unprecedented, theres also a need for a special master? >> no, i dont think so. i mean, the reality is that the procedures that the department of justice offered in terms of having a filter team not only on site at the search but also to go through any potentially privileged material after the search, were approved by a federal magistrate judge, so this isnt something doj just decided on its own to do. they had the courts approval to do it. the othe...

Mentioned. federal prosecutors are suggesting a special master is somewhat of a moot point, john and sandra, because of whats called a filter team. its kind of like a special master, its a neutral third party team, however its based at the department of justice and that filter team is done looking at all the evidence and found a limited amount that may contain attorney/client privileged information. the trump team wants a special master, someone not remotely even connected to the justice departm...

Fbis review of materials seized at mar-a-lago. >> the doj was allowed to file up to 40 pages because they said the 20-page limit was not enough. cnns evan perez is live in washington. evan, what will we see today? well, i think one of the first things in that filing last night, what they said they wanted to go from 20 pages to 40 pages is they said that they needed all that space in order to address the legal and factual issues. and i think that we can read into the fact that the justice depar...