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But along with the photo came a series of explosive new details. the doj claims there is evidence that the documents seized were, quote, likely concealed and removed before the fbi search on august 8th and, quote, efforts were likely taken to obstruct the governments investigation. the filing also disclosed that three classified documents recovered during the fbi search were located in the desks in the 45 office and the doj even laid out why it says it cannot trust information that came from tru...

Documents and a florida judge considering the special master request and the filings today, including the filing from the justice department to that judge about the special master and what the justice department has looked at already. i mean, for the people directly involved in, im sure all of the minutia, the ins and outs are fascinating. i think its easy to lose the forest for the trees on a legal tangent like this one. this fight over the special master thing, what this is, is the trump side ...

The street. senator lindsey graham is promising that. he is not speaking out against it saying i hope this doesnt happen and i need to tell my fellow americans i can sense this might be coming and its wrong. nothing like that. he is basically promising thats going to happen and wielding that as a threat against the justice department. hey, if a guy on our side is arrested for crimes, we are going to burn the country down. this is the party that wants to be known as the law and order party. the n...

Was indicted itll be in his words riots in the street. senator lindsey graham, is promising that hes not speaking out against it same i hope this doesnt happen and i need to tell my fellow americans that i can sense this is coming to might be wrong hes just basically promising thats going to happen, and wielding that as a threat against the justice department. hey, if a guy on our side gets arrested for crimes, we will burn the country down, this is the party that wants to be known as a law and ...

0 covering all this cross-country, thank you very much. that is all in on this monday night, the rachel maddow show starts right now, good evening rachel. rachel. good evening chris, thank you very much. hour. happy to have you here. the basic plot is that even though hes a good guy, even though hes our hero, he has to steal the declaration of independence, he has to break into the national archives and steal it but it is for a good reason. its because he has followed the string of ancient creep...

-- about filling judicial post. if we want to restore some sort of faith and trust in our judicial system, at what point do we get around to bringing in an independent nonpartisan way of appointing judges? who better to ask and nancy, a former federal judge yourself, now law professor at harvard university. she joins me now. thank you so much for coming on the show. >> good to be here. >> what is your reaction to judge cannons approach to the special master request from the man who once appointe...

Justice department has its own internal review to try to keep any privilege issues from getting in the way of this investigation. and so what the special master request, if it is granted at that hearing on thursday, it would require someone outside to come in, look at the evidence, and determine whether anything the fbi has is out of bounds because of these attorney-client privilege issues. now, its worth noting too, this would slow down the investigation that the fbi is conducting, but its not ...

As well as it red lights to when trump is supposed to respond to the special master request that hes made. well come back to that and give you a chance to get through it in a really good way. for a deeper dive, i want to bring in bradley moss, a national security lawyer, john wood, former u.s. attorney and senior investigator for the january 6th committee, and phil mudd, former cia counterterrorism official. nice to have you here, gentlemen. you just heard jessica talk about just that alphabet s...

There is a team procedure set up in place regarding attorney/client privilege documents where the judge is the ultimate decider there. so i have trouble seeing that being granted here. >> do you see that as just simply buying time or trying in some way to kind of color public opinion just by, you know, the former president putting it out there? >> i think the latter. it really, that last filing regarding the special master really was the sort of thing that i would not let a junior lawyer under m...

Cnn crime and justice reporter caitlin polance has been covering all the twists and turns. what did we learn from this response? >> this is a federal judge, eileen cannon in the southern district of florida telling donald trumps team she needs more information before she can consider this special master request that he wants to have someone to make sure the doj is handling that evidence properly. she ask asking the trump attorneys to seek the precise relief sought. the judge is also asking them ...