election interference, what he s saying and when he might go under oath. developing news overseas, putting europe on edge. international inspectors on their way to that nuclear power plant coming under fire in ukraine. the fears growing over a possible radiation disaster. our team there on the ground with a live report for you. meantime, good afternoon to all of you. i m alex witt, in for hallie jackson here in new york. i m joined by ken dilanian, as well as msnbc legal analyst kelly, you re with us, as well. ken, with the doj with at least some of those seized documents contained some attorney/client privileged material. how will that affect the investigation going forward? probably not at all, alex. it s pretty routine when the fbi searches somebody s office and they grab all their files, they may pick up stuff that s privileged. that s why they use what s known as a privilege or filter team, a group of independent prosecutors to go through the documents before they
the department of justice reveals it has already complete its review of documents seized. in other words, they re now finished with what a special master would be designed to accomplish in the first place. they say that a privileged review team, quote, identified a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client information and is following the procedure set forth in paragraph affidavit for disputes if any. that filing, and it started a classification review of all of the materials seized at mar-a-lago. in the second, the odni, the office of the director of national intelligence is indeed leading an assessment, basically an evaluation of threats to national security associated to trump s decision to keep whatever it is that he took and kept. remember, the affidavit released on friday showed the government s concern with how those important documents were stored at mar-a-lago. in addition to the room we ve all heard so much about these past few weeks, the ne
history of the african-americans throughout our country, throughout the world if you think about it, right? and this story is one of unimaginable sacrifice, hard work, and faith in america. i ve gotten a real glimpse during the campaign, i go around with ben to a lot of different places that i wasn t so familiar with. they re incredible people. and i want to thank ben carson who is going to be heading up hud. it s a big job, and it s a job that s not only housing, it s mind and spirit, right, ben? and you understand that. nobody is going to be better than ben. last month we celebrated the life of reverend martin luther king jr., an incredible example, unique in american history. you read all about dr. martin luther king a week ago when somebody said i took the statue out of my office. and it turned out that that was fake news. fake news.
there is a great moment in american politics where you ve got a front-runner on the democratic side that is, i think, unique in american history. there is nobody else we have seen not an incumbent who has the sort of footprint she does in one party ahead of her party s nominating process. because of that there has created this vacuum that very few folks want to step in but those who do want to step into it are assured to get a certain degree of attention and i think he is wise enough to figure that out and why he is happy to you don t think at the end of the day he s getting in the race? i think he might try to explore. i think he ll make more trips to iowa and new hampshire and i think he ll look at it. he may create some kind of infrastructure, but he is ultimately going to spend 16 months running around the country raising money and trying to really beat hillary clinton? it would seem unlikely. this is another thing you can look at it a couple of different ways. you look at