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Is deciding whether to grant trump's request for a special master, a third party, to review the seized classified documents from his home. the justice department announced its initial review did turn up what could be protected by the lawyer client privilege. barbara, how concerned would you be if you are the justice department that trump is using delaying tactics, asking for the master, who could slow it all down? >> i think the one concern that i would have here, andrea, is it could slow down the investigation. more importantly, it could slow down the damage assessment the intelligence commun...

Democrat stacey abrams. big news for the investigations this morning. >> no question. nick valencia, thank you very, very much. >> reporter: you bet. we also have some other news just in to cnn. this regarding former president trump's request for a so-called special master to review those documents. we have more now. what's the latest? >> reporter: we just saw a filing from the justice department come into the docket in this case today, the justice department updating the judge saying that they have already completed their review and that they have found a limited set of materials from these...

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 my supervision submit to the court. it was kind of all over the place. a lot of just, you know, p.r. ...

Their basis for probable cause? what were people afraid of? were they people who had a hand, who were fearful they might be accused? there's a lot of questions and i suspect it's under these black lines we'll see. bradley moss, john wood, phil mudd, thank you so much. i want to go back to jessica schneider with the new information on another legal front in this investigation. jessica, what's going on. >> coming in just moments ago, we finally got that response from the trump team that had been directed by a district court judge in the southern district of florida. now, remember, it was just ea...

Down on anything no matter how bonkers or false it is, he gets away with it. >> right, and he has been all over the place on this. and nick, i mean, but he hasn't explained why he had the documents, and nick, trump's attorneys submitted a filing last night further explaining their request that an independent special master review these materials recovered by the fbi. do you think the judge will actually do that? why comply with that request? >> there's no good reason to comply with that request. basically it's based on the predicate that the special master would review privileged documents. fi...