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Judges, backed along with a third judge, and appointed judge by obama, said that the mar-a-lago investigation can go forward. and now the doj can use these hundred classified documents that are at the core of that case, to continue investigating. >> let me get your thoughts on that point that david brought up about the appealing, if you will, or the overturning of the judges decision, that allow the federal investigators to move forward with these documents. how significant is that? is the succe...

Ronald reagan, a republican from long ago -- but a conservative. he has been checking trump in his claims in realtime. right? he began this whole special master process by asking questions about the classification, which trump lawyers basically punted on. but now he is asking -- he is pressing trumps lawyers to say, is there anything in this trench of documents that might have been planted by the fbi? is there anything in this 11,000 document hall that wasnt at mar-a-lago that could have been fr...

Its put up or shut up time. hes demanding that they file any objections to the property list, and that includes, i might add, just not whether or not they planted evidence, but the fbi list says that the documents are classified. by the end of next week, the trump team has to put up or shut up on whether or not trump declassified them in his mind, if theyre going to object to that as well. >> so, david priess, im curious what the timeline is here. so this judge -- the appeals court knocked down ...

That involves a whole lot of interns copying a whole lot of documents this weekend, because the government owes 11,000 copies to the trump legal team by monday. and that process can take many weeks, perhaps months for the special master to review all of these documents and get back to judge canon with his recommendations. thats path one. path 2 is that the government can actually file an appeal for the entire special master decision that judge canon made. now, normally, that appeal would also ta...

>> right. >> and so these are critical things. i want to praise these two trump judges, a term that some legal experts have used is that the judiciary, the judges, are the last wall. many trump judges stood up and rejected his false claims in 2020, a voter fraud. and judge cannon did the wrong thing and i think issued a series of partisan, pro trump rulings -- >> i think we were worried that this was something that we discussed last week, the trump-ification of the judiciary. we have a policing ...

>> there is someone else people can pivot to if they decide -- >> somebody who gives you everything you want, the same fighting spirit and attitude without the chaos. >> at this point in time, legally speaking, elie, were in a put up or shut up time, correct? these allegations that the fbi planted evidence. weve seen no evidence of that. the judge is now saying, right, we need to see the evidence. >> theres only so long you can carry off a complete fiction in the courts because what we see happe...

This is reminiscent of the times in the post 2020 election when the trump team made these outlandish arguments in public about all these voting irregularities and things but every time they were unable to bring evidence this court. they better watch themselves this judge dearie is not having it. they have to put up or shut up. >> do you think the special master process has maybe backfired for trump? >> if the goal of the trump team was to buy itself some time, i guess its done that. the special ...

It makes the dojs investigation task easier. if there is no evidence of tampering or anything else, then theyre not going to have to counter that. so i think well speed up the special master process quicker but the critical part of what doj needed was access to the classified documents, which they have now gained. thats really the important part moving forward. i dont know that will be particularly sped up but faster now that they have gotten it. there is a lot of other information to go over bu...

Trump. this whole special master process is not going well for him because its challenging and its going to ultimately draw out whether these claims are truthful or not and theres no evidence that they are truthful. >> i have never heard trump say there isnt a tape. hes the first one to say theres a tape when there isnt one, but now he can say, wouldnt it be on tape? who came up with this idea do you think to throw out there to say the fbi tampered? >> i tend to think this came from trump direct...

Before the meeting with judge dearie at 2 pm today, the trump lawyers filed their response to the justice departments appeal of the case seeking to exclude the classified documents from the special master process. the trump lawyers once again classified the case as quote, document storage disputed it spiraled out of control and said quote, the government wrongfully seeks to criminalize the possession by the 45th president of his own presidential and personal records. the problem for the trump la...