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northeast, accusing them of, quote, playing politics with human beings. they white house today the president is expected to personally meet for the first time with the families of brittney griner and paul whelan. the biden administration repeatedly saying securing their release from russian custody is top priority for him. let's begin this hour with our colleague katelyn polantz on the appointment of the special master to review the documents. it is a miracle as many pointed out that they agreed on someone, judge deary. i think the treat contentious issue that will lead to this a...

being here with us tonight. the remember when donald trump and his allies were very, very concerned about the mishandling of classified information? it was the thing they cared about almost more than anything else. much of trump's presidential campaign was premised on the idea that his opponent could not be trusted, because she mishandled classified information. in fact, trump's campaign was so concerned about the proper handling of government documents, they believed hillary clinton should go to jail. >> if i win, i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecuto...

look into your situation. >> it's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. >> because he would be in jail. >> should hillary clinton be in jail? yes or no, mayor giuliani? you know her. you are a prosecutor. >> if i did what she did, i would be in jail. >> if i did a tent -- a tenth -- of what she did, i would be in jail today. >> remember the crowds at the republican national convention just thundering over and over again, lock her up? what they were actually saying was lock her up for mishandling classified info...

Are there attorney/client privileged documents among these classified documents? well, for a document to be protected by the privilege it has to involve a legal issue being discussed by trump and a lawyer. these are classified documents involving national security, there are no legal issues involved with respect to those. the other issue of course is whether executive privilege applies to any of the documents and courts have kind of universally said when you are out of office as president trump is, he doesn't have the right to assert executive privilege. >> so this will likely be appealed by t...

This be for the committee if it were fast tracked? it would be something. >> i do think they will take the case. this is just a major separation of powers issue. it's never been settled in the supreme court before. you have this very unusual situation of the executive branch and the legislative branch in agreement. president biden thinks the records should be turned over, but former president trump does not think they should be turned over and the supreme court has held in the past that former presidents do have the right to assert executive privilege. what the courts have never addressed is w...