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How closely watched it is. it's something that happens all the time in ordinary cases, although as a general matter attorneys like to put in briefs and memos of law within the page limits prescribed by the court. on the one hand, as kara pointed out, the review is already done. one of the arguments the department of justice will likely make is that a special master is moot. the job is finished, the filter team has done its work, so they can be sure. they must feel strongly they don't want a special master appointed to the matter. because the judge has given an indication that she's inclined to...

Checking their assertions of privilege, and also giving us fair, timely access, letting us build a case for why this search warrant was morally and legally wrong. >> with us now to talk about this, julie agely and paul butler, now a professor at the georgetown university law center. he's also an msnbc legal analyst. so julia, now that the justice department says its review is over, what comes next? >> that's right. the fbi has finished going through what they would call establishing their filter team, going through and figuring out what might fall under attorney/client privilege. some document...

Privilege review team but also because this is unprecedented, there's also a need for a special master? >> no, i don't think so. i mean, the reality is that the procedures that the department of justice offered in terms of having a filter team not only on site at the search but also to go through any potentially privileged material after the search, were approved by a federal magistrate judge, so this isn't something doj just decided on its own to do. they had the court's approval to do it. the other thing is, there is some urgency to this. we're talking about classified documents that potenti...

Mentioned. federal prosecutors are suggesting a special master is somewhat of a moot point, john and sandra, because of what's called a filter team. it's kind of like a special master, it's a neutral third party team, however it's based at the department of justice and that filter team is done looking at all the evidence and found a limited amount that may contain attorney/client privileged information. the trump team wants a special master, someone not remotely even connected to the justice department. listen. >> we still need judicial intervention, we need a judge to monitor our access to th...

Fbi's review of materials seized at mar-a-lago. >> the doj was allowed to file up to 40 pages because they said the 20-page limit was not enough. cnn's evan perez is live in washington. evan, what will we see today? well, i think one of the first things in that filing last night, what they said they wanted to go from 20 pages to 40 pages is they said that they needed all that space in order to address the legal and factual issues. and i think that we can read into the fact that the justice department believes that what trump -- the trump legal team filed in court were filled with inaccuracie...