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it's a contrast that the president will be taking to prime time on thursday with a speech in front of independence hall. the theme, a battle for the soul of the nation. the theme which he kicked off his 2020 campaign. democrats begin to gain momentum trying to shut down republican hopes of a red wave this fall. joining us now is nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli, senior national political reporter saheel carop, eugene daniels and julia torusa scranton joe is back with a prime time address. what do we expect toer hear from him today, thursday night, and the labor day para...

it says a filter team has already gone through the documents and pulled the ones that could potentially contain privileged information. and it says doj has already given back the private documents that are not a part of the investigation like the expired passports swept up in the shirt. legal analysts argue there isn't a need for a special master here. donald trump is not a lawyer. so discovering attorney-client privileged material is not an acute danger. donald trump is not the president of the united states any more, so economic tough privilege does not apply. and the volume of mat...

Is say a certing some sort of privilege over this. >> is there an option for appeal if this? if the judge says we will do a special master, does doj have any resource, barbara? >> yes, they could certainly appeal to the next court up, the 11th circuit court of appeals, the supreme court if necessary. to the extent that delay is -- the risk they are trying to avoid, further delay things they might be better suited to agreeing to the special master but urging expediency so they can move on. >> when we see special masters before we saw one with michael cohen, who was donald trump's lawyer, i beli...

Special master. delay in the criminal investigation if the justice department can't get their hands on the documents to review them and most importantly there could be a delay in the intelligence community's damage assessment. one of the things we heard this weekend is that dni director haines has ordered a damage assessment to review the documents to determine whether sources have been compromised overseas, whether methods of dlekss, surveillance channels have been compromised and they need to shut those down or be aware of false flag operations. that needs to be done with urgency. every day,...

What i will say is something i said before the giuliani case and cohen case are opposite from now. they are lawyers. mr. giuliani's case he had other clients and in both cases they seized electronic devices that had gig gigabyte of material here. we are dealing with 27 boxes total taken from mar-a-lago on august 8th. that in the schemes of these investigations isn't really a lot. 27 boxes is manageable even for a judge and their clerks to review in chambers. the tiepts of reviews that have necessitated special masters in the past is where doj themselves recognizes that it is both voluminous an...