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The current Trump investigation is just the latest chapter of a long-brewing civil liberties nightmare. On Monday, August 8, Justice Department officials spent nine hours raiding the Mar-a-Lago home of Donald Trump, carrying out 12 boxes of...
Story on the holiday's a new ruling coming out of florida. judge granting the request that donald trump made for a different type of review of those documents that the doj says, he was holding aaliyah -- illegally for a long time. a special master to do the review. now, if you watched the bead or keep an eye on this, you may recall that we heard from attorney john sale, who objected a request to represent trump in this very matter. now, before any such request was made, he actually said here on msnbc that his idea would've been to request the special master's. this was days before trump first ...
Treatment of a former president is of unique interest to the general public and the country is served best by an orderly process that promotes the interests and perception of fairness. but she also said one reason why she was giving the former president this special master as he requested was she had some concern about the fbi's filter team, which has conducted the initial review and has already gone through the records, that team is separate from the investigative team. on that point, here is what the judge said, she said for the same reasons chiefly that the risk that the government's filter...
They said they had a filter team not involved in the fbi investigation, they had looked at the documents, already separated them out, and there are 500 that potentially could be argued for attorney/client p privilege, but they argue they're not worthy of a special master because once the president is not in office, they're no longer privileged. today she appointed a special master. she said this person will review for personal materials, attorney/client privilege and executive privilege. she also said she's going to temporarily blocking the department of justice from reviewing and using any of...
But two weeks afterwards the filing looks like an effort to delay and of course the scope that they're asking for, which is to include attorney/client privilege and executive privilege is really to use barr's words a crock. >> yeah. so if this is a strategy to delay the investigation, i understand it would be by several weeks. and it's a motion that's been filed much later than it usually is, does it make sense to you that the judge is saying that she's inclined to appoint a special master? >> it doesn't make sense to me. i think at this point she should let the process be as it's been, which ...