A preliminary intent to allow a neutral third party, typically a retired judge, to review the documents. The former president s 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, and broad brushstrokes, when we look at in terms of the spots from the doj . We are looking overall, in terms of the legal argument, the Justice Department opposing with donald trump is looking for, which is a Special Master, an independent third party to overview these documents. The Justice Department is saying look, after the search they did on the president s residence in maralago at august, theyve already gone through those materials. Theyve already had a filter team set up to remove any
attacks on the fbi by congress members and the former president, just two days before what the white house says will be a primetime presidential address on the soul of the nation. if that weren t enough, his new tough talk comes just as the documents case is about to take another turn, with the justice department about to file new court papers tonight, aiming to block attempts by the former president to slow it down or stymie it. that is the backdrop to what joe biden said today in northeastern pennsylvania. let me say this to my maga republican friends in congress, don t tell me you support law enforcement if you won t condemn what happened on the 6th. don t tell me. can t do it. for god s sake, whose side are you on? whose side are you on? meantime, on his social media outlet, the former president today launched one post after another about the 2020 election, which he now says should be rerun, and the fbi. now, without specifically leveling blame, joe biden today spoke
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 trump s 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, cnn s political correspondent sara murray live now, sara, and broad brushstrokes, when we look at in terms of the spots from the doj? we are looking overall, in terms of the legal argument, the justice department opposing with donald trump is looking for, which is a special master, an independent third party to overview these documents. the justice department is saying look, after the search they did on the presidents residence in mar-a-lago at august, they ve already gone through those materials. they ve already had a filter team set up
return dozens of highly classified documents, this despite several requests over several months. the justice department also released its most visual piece of evidence and you re looking at it, that is a photo showing documents with the highest classification markings laid out there by the fbi, officials say those documents were recovered from a container that trump kept at his mar-a-lago home. since january, the u.s. government has recovered more than 320 classified documents from mar-a-lago. the justice department says three of those classified documents were not in boxes in that storage facility. they were actually found in former president trump s desk. so let s begin this morning with all of that news and this stunning filing from the doj, with our correspondent kara scannell. this is why doj needed 40 pages. they needed twice what the court said they could have because they had to apparently lay all of this out. yeah, good morning, jim and poppy. part of the objecti
let s go outfront. good evening, everyone, i m poppy harlow in for erin burnett. biden fights back after an onslaught of attacks against the fbi after the search of mar-a-lago. the president today did not hold back. now it s sickening to see the new attacks on the fbi. threatening the life of law enforcement agents and their families for simply carrying out the law and doing their job. look, i want to say this clear as i can. there s no place in this country, no place for endangering the lives of law enforcement. no place. none, never, period. yet today former president trump spending much of the day lashing out continuously against the fbi and the men and women who work there, sharing more than 60 posts in 12 hours on his truth social site, posts that are often delusional and many of them just plain untrue, like claiming the fbi helped rig the election and sharing one message that reads, quote, we can t let the fbi break the american spirit. well, this all comes as we re