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Special master. that is that third party attorney, someone, typically maub a retired judge. that is going to be the situation at hand tomorrow when trump's legal team is in court, including the new attorney they just added, the former solicitor general of florida, someone they've been seeking to have florida experience on their case, given so much of this of course is happening in florida where his home is and where this search happened. they still want that special master master. and basically the argument that the justice department is making in its filing last night is that one is not neces...

Recasting the narrative that doj very clearly laid out in their previous filing about that give and take that led to the search warrant. so, i don't think those arguments are going to have much impact on the judge, but they have proven to be very effective in activating the president's base, generating additional fundraising opportunities, and really kind of turning up the volume on the outrage factor. i would expect that president trump likes that part of the brief the best. i'm just not sure that it's going to have a lot of legal weight. >> and, again, because what the judge is deciding tomo...

The wide, respected admiration throughout the department, the department's law enforcement partners, the u.s. intelligence community and if he's arguing the matter for the government today, continues to signify both the importance of the case, writ large, and the importance of ensuring consistency and how department enforcement policy is applied in cases involving the mishandling of classified information, including who gets to decide what documents in a search are reviewed by whom, under what circumstances and here the government played it by the book, procedures for a privileged team in this...

Haven't seen the affidavit so let us tell you a thing or two, and the thing or two was really extremely damning. to ryan's point that they're trying to sort of smush together executive privilege. that really, i think, is the ball game here. all their case is asking for a special master involve attorney/client privilege. trump could have attorney/client privilege with is own personal lawyers. what he doesn't have is any kind of standing about these documents, the public documents and the very first legal argument that doj made and that trump will have to answer in an hour is why do you have any...

And rea mitchell kicking off a special two-hour edition of "andrea mitchell reports" today. we are in washington as the focus on the classified documents seized from donald trump's mar-a-lago estate is going to shift in the next hour to a courthouse in west palm beach, florida. that's where trump's lawyers and the justice department are clashing over the former president's request for an independent master to go through the stack of files taken from mar-a-lago to see where any might have involved attorney/client privilege. the government says they have already done that and doing it again coul...