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on, and sat down. >> you know the breaking news beckons. >> yeah when, the breaking news beckons. >> thank you, victor, ill see you tomorrow. this is don lemon tonight, and wont be long now, because its got to happen before midnight, any minute now were expecting the dojs response to team trumps request for a special master to drop. and this is not just some routine paperwork, its going to get a lot here. its gonna be a, doozy so you want to stay tuned. again, its supposed to happen be...

It may hurt some folks years, like what we have been discussing. but he is talking about the maga republicans. he went after -- he went after lindsey graham for saying that they are going to be rights in the streets of trumps prosecuted. was graham wrong to say that was biden right to go after him? >> graham should not have said that. look, there will be people that are frustrated. trumps base, his supporters, think that this doj and fbi probe and search of mar-a-lago is prosecutorial overreach....

Respond. we look at the filing by 8 pm, according to the judge. look, we expect that they are going to continue to push for the special master. you know, we know from earlier filings in the justice department that they have already start digging through these materials. theyve already set up a filter team. theyve already identified some materials that could contain, potentially, attorney-client privilege information. but weve also heard publicly and privately from the trump team they do not feel...

Problems just like this. and so, what we have got to do, those of us who live here, those of us who are democrats, we are gonna reach across the aisle to our republican friends, and try to fix this once and for all. its going to be a major undertaking. were going to be looking to washington. but now that the state has some money, we are going to have a partnership with the city, and we need a comprehensive solution. >> lets hope everyone can get together and fix it, because an obvious urgent nee...

Mischaracterizing the nature of the documents that they want to set the record straight on. >> so, they probably want to dispute some of that, right, as he said, theyre trying to set the record straight. the doj could push back on the claim from trumps allies that the president, the former, present was cooperating. because if you look at, again, i have to show this timeline that i have here. this is a timeline of, like, all the interactions and all the times they try to get the documents or get ...

To know the answer to whether or not theres going to be a special master, thats why hes gonna continue, don, in the next few days. >> so, ali, lets bring you an, a lot of criticism over trumps legal filing, asking for a special master. what kind of detail do you think we can expect from the dojs? responds >> well, they are certainly going have plenty of pages to do it. it is unusual, by the way, asked for doubles the page limit, thats something i never did in my 14 years as a prosecutor. >> was ...

Accusations of politics? >> it could, but it wont stop the trump team from making that accusation. >> from trying. >> right, its a question of if the special master is adopted by this judge, a trump appointee whos want to play down the middle, the question will be are there any constraints on the time? especially given the fact that it appears the doj has already gone through many of these documents, you know, the horse is kind of out of the barn on this one. so,, so in a rational world, that wo...

They said, what took you so? long doj and fbi? you know they couldnt solve, that by not taking the documents in the first place, or by turning them over last year. look, delay is certainly part of the strategy here, maybe the predominant strategy here, i think, by the trump team. generally speaking, prosecutors hate delay. i was always trying to get to the jury as soon as possible, trying to get an indictment, trying to get to a jurys soon as possible. and generally speaking, its better for peop...

And said no one is above the law. >> but let me say this. >> maybe? >> but everyone fights. >> not like this. >> el rincon, former federal prosecutor, if you had done this, where would you be now? >> ill be fighting just as hard as donald trump is fighting. >> but would you have been, would something have happened to that would have some repercussions by? now >> yeah, its different, because i would not have any, the only way i couldve gotten to those documents by breaking into the white house. t...

Dont you think? >> exactly, sit around the table. >> its challenging. and there is no food to throw, so we are good. >> no wineglasses, no catch up. >> a major water crisis in jackson, mississippi, more than 180,000 residents now without enough water to drink, flush toilets, or even brush their teeth. and the deadline for the doj filing in the mar-a-lago case, just a little more than an hour away. our reporters are experts standing by in this very busy news night, so stay with us.