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What they really want is a preview of what might be coming down the pike for them in the records investigation. i think theres general consensus amongst legal experts that it will be easier for the special counsel aided by the department of justice to make that case more quickly than for example charges stemming from january 6th against the former president. trumps lawyers have admitted in court that they did not have an index for example of what records he took, whether classified or unclassifi...

Considerations? is that why he ended up with these deals in the middle east? has chaired cushing the? documents who has touch them, who has seen them, who knows about them, who uses them. the sooner we get rid of the special master process where we complete it the sooner we can get to that point and we can move forward with the prosecution. >> we are going to talk about georgia lot in the show it in the weeks ahead because of the special election, or the runoff election in georgia. but in, fact ...

Some things that are out of jack smiths control. one of them is when the special master process in the mar-a-lago records investigation comes to a close. the department of justice needs to know what evidence it can use and review before it brings charges there. and were waiting for the 11th circuit to rule on whether that special master process should have ever existed in the first place, katy. >> does the department of justice need to speak with vice president mike pence? i know theyre asking f...

Accompanies the mar-a-lago search warrant came under withering questioning from the panel of judges from the 11th circuit. they expressed doubt about allowing the special master process to go forward. no matter what happens in this case, it is worth remembering that the court fight over the special master is in its entirety a procedural dispute. its a legal fight started by the ex-president intended to simply throw a wrench into the justice departments investigation. no matter what happens with ...

Vowed that the appointment of a special counsel will not slow the work in either case, and smith already has become involved, albeit from the netherlands. for example, a court filing said smith has reviewed arguments between the justice department and trumps lawyers over papers seized in the search of mar-a-lago. that court fight is the first major public challenge for the new special counsel. lawyers for trump and lawyers for doj squared off today in an atlanta federal courtroom with the justic...

To the special master. donald trump and his lawyers have to know by now, if they didnt know about already that they are going to lose at every term procedurally what the special master in this case. and they are going to lose in the 11th circuit court of appeals if a judge cannot intervene in the case so again in such a way that the justice department cannot appeal to a decision, by, her -- procedurally, donald trump and his lawyers know that the special master process, it might create some dela...

Deputy general. let me begin with, you andrew weissmann, what have we learned about the trump lawyers and the special master process based on what the justice department filing reveals to us about what they are calling the disputes over these documents? it seems to me this reveals the trump lawyers never had any kind of a hint of a strategy of what this special master process was supposed to do for them. >> thats totally right. and you also read from a footnote where the department of justice, w...

Circuit if it all comes to an end. >> just review, that andrew weissmann, the special master will make some rulings here. all of those rulings get submitted to judge can. and judge cannon can accept those rulings or not, by the special master. if the justice department doesnt like what judge cannon does, they can then appealed to the 11th circuit. judge cannon knows that the justice department has won with every single appeal point they have raised, now all the way up to including the u knighted...

Have access to the classified documents. will you pull back the curtain on what kind of impact that has on his legal team? >> so, it is a very interesting question, why they filed this hair mary in the first place. and some of the guesswork involved this idea that what they did want was to have these documents submitted to the special master. either so that they could see them and assist them or perhaps out of a belief that doj and more to the point, the intelligence community, would be unwillin...

Since day one. i have to ask you, the supreme courts order means the trumps legal team is not going to have access to the classified documents that were seized by the fbi. can you give us a sense and pull back the curtain on what kind of impact that has on his legal team? >> so, its a very interesting question, alicia, why they filed this hail mary in the first place. some of the guesswork involved this idea that what they did what was to have these documents submitted to the special master. eit...