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Crucial, sensitive conversations between donald trump and his top advisers. donald trump's team is trying to prevent that. ultimately an argument about executive privilege. i think doj has the better argument because the law tells us that executive privilege is designed to protect against legitimate policy discussions, not to protect against evidence of wrongdoing or criminality. so this is a battle that's ongoing. i do suspect doj will ultimately prevail. >> and this week we also learned that the special master overseeing the mar-a-lago document investigation -- this is the special master tha...

Prosecution. we'll see what happens, because of the possession of these classified documents. anderson, if you or i or david had even a single one of these documents or two or three, we would surely be investigated. and if you look at the history of the laws, very likely be prosecuted for their possession. the president had over 100 of them. and there is no -- when we were kids, maybe, you watch bewitched with elizabeth montgomery where she would blink her eyes and wiggle her nose and change reality. that doesn't work with classification authorities. >> david, we heard some top republicans sen...

>> there is someone else people can pivot to if they decide -- >> somebody who gives you everything you want, the same fighting spirit and attitude without the chaos. >> at this point in time, legally speaking, elie, we're in a put up or shut up time, correct? these allegations that the fbi planted evidence. we've seen no evidence of that. the judge is now saying, right, we need to see the evidence. >> there's only so long you can carry off a complete fiction in the courts because what we see happening right now with the special master is what tends to happen in courts. you can make allegation...

Setback for trump, and i think it comes at a time when he's facing these converging legal threats, including most especially out of new york this week. >> not a hail mary, maybe a half court shot, maybe a 64-yard field goal. yes, that's a seahawks comment. maya, i'll take this to you. here's what appears to be, according to "the new york times," trump's legal strategy. i want to see if you think this makes any sense. so trump's strategy over the declassification claims is he seems to be saying during the hearing before judge dearie, mr. trump's lawyers provided a glimpse of what the declassifi...

Going to happen to those documents. >> that was what was going to happen until we got this ruling. now the classified, documents the 100 documents out of 11,000 or so, there is no tug of war over those. those are doj. 's >> norm, the appeals court not only finding that trump had no ownership or personal interest in these documents, blasting the declassification claims. and that quote, here for blasting the claims, quote, the record contains no evidence that any of these records were being declassified and before the special master rested provided any interference of declassified any of these d...