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Executive privilege as the former president. and hes now making gripes that weve heard from donald trump, including on social media. hes asking for essentially special treatment in some ways because he is a former president. really, when you look at the filing overall, there are caveats here. well have to wait and see what a court does here, this filing comes two weeks after the search was done. there was already a hearing in the case in which trumps team didnt say anything. and the justice depa...

Classification covers a large broad sort of variety of documents. tssci and sap is different. those are documents with special covers. with the sap materials, you have to sign up and sign out for them. it makes me wonder what happened to the chain of custody of the documents. theyre supposed to be somebody, typically at the national security, that is john boltons office, or robert obriens office, thats supposed to track those documents. so the large number of documents doesnt necessarily get my ...

They did, and the trump lawsuit also acknowledges that another grand jury subpoena was served on the folks in mar-a-lago for surveillance video of the property, which its been reported that the doj then saw some troubling things on that video. so all together, in addition to the reporting that there were hundreds of classified documents found even before they got the search warrant really painted a picture of that the doj bent over backwards to try to get the documents back before they took the ...

Judge as part of a fisa court investigation into the -- or surveillance of the 2016 trump campaign. there is some very bad blood between the fbi and president trump. so for them to say, look, we dont want the filter team, which is an internal team to the fbi going through these documents, we want an independent third party master. why? because some of these documents, yes, they could be special because hes president. thats stuff we cover by executive privilege. there may be materials, and i beli...

Investigative team who do the same thing that the special master would do. they review the material for privilege. they take all that stuff out and pass the rest of the evidence on to the investigative team. i think it may be out of time. thats, of course, the real goal here. the president is stalling for time and trying to throw up roadblocks to slow down the investigation. >> dave, do you think hes going to be successful at slowing down the investigation, and what do you make of that two-week ...

And also whether they might be privileged and in trumps case this could include attorney/client privilege or possibly some version of executive privilege. what is odd about this, and why it seems a bit more like bluster than a good legal strategy is, this search was now two weeks ago. so, the fbi has happen this material for two weeks and claim theyve had their own filter team doing this kind of work. and so now the cat may now be out of the bag already to try to get it back in there two and a h...

Going through it. the doj says they have a team in place, a filter team to do the review that a special master would be doing. so it remains to be seen if the application will be made for a special master and whether the judge determines its worthwhile in this circumstance given the delay, as well as anything else. >> this new nbc news poll found that threats to democracy are the top concern of voters ahead of the cost of living, the height of the economy, which had been at the top of the list i...

Before filing this lawsuit. and really what -- there are some valid points that the president could have made two weeks ago. he makes this argument that the search warrant was overly broad. he says that a third party here could review these things to make sure that the prosecutors at the fbi arent looking at material that is privileged. all of these things they could have made a point of asking a judge more than two weeks ago. now we know that the justice department has had two weeks to go throu...

The filter team wouldve already gone through. they have a filter team that is privileged and relevant materials. and they do it themselves. and with the special master he pretends to be seeking would do would be to perform precisely that role. i am reasonably confident that the justice department in the fbi have already perform that by now. as you know, being a lawyer, one of the things you need to get equitable relief like a special master is that you need to show that getting that relief will ...

Donald trump. so you could make an argument that whatever happens in this case will effect the midterms. >> but at the moment theyre going through the documents. so box by box and file by file. how long is that process going to take. >> so we have a little insight the other days, there is a filter team of prosecutors and agents who are not part of the case who are going through and picking out things that may be subject to attorney/client privilege or things that arent relevant, like they gave h...