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Secret and top secret and then levels beyond top secret at the highest classification levs. that is a crime if true. s a crime if true. clint watts is a former fbi special agent who's now distinguished research fellow a foreign policy research institute. alyssa and matt are both back with us. clint, the judge is asking for an update on the justice department's filter team. can you tell us who they are in the work that they do? >> anytime documents are taken, particularly in a situation like this, we might have noticed affidavit, there was discussion of attorney client privilege. meaning they c...

The process, and also just the reality that the judge was making this decision is a trump appointed judge? >> this is not the typical situation where you see a special master being used following a search. special master's are used when there's a surge that is likely to find a large quantity of attorney-client privilege material, for instance when you're searching an attorney's office or searching and attorneys, and in those situations the parties will typically very close to the time of the search ask for the special master come in and review the documents, but what happened here is that doj ...

Used or not used in the investigation. the judge gave the justice department until tuesday to provide a sealed list of what was in those documents and then the judge will hold a hearing on thursday to sort this out. it is worth noting that of the justice department's already using what's called a filter team internally to go through these documents. still at the same time if this motion is granted t would be a bit of a win for donald trump in this case, although that is still, it's a separate kind of process matter from the heart of the fbi's investigation into these documents, fred. >> and th...

"because i am protected by "executive privilege". where does he stand on that? not on very firm ground. executive privilege belongs to the current president of the united states, who is not trump. as a former president, he has the same privileges that other citizens would have, and executive privilege is not one of them. sometimes, there's a little slippage here and he seems to be talking about, or his supporters seem to be talking about attorney—client privilege — which, of course, may apply to a small number of these documents — but the justice department has made it clear that it has ...

The investigation and made clear that this is an ongoing investigation and there may be multiple targets of the investigation and do not want to reveal a roadmap for way the investigation is going. there is also grandeur information which is secret by law and they have expressed concerns about the privacy of some of the individuals described in the affidavit. iiit individuals described in the affidavit. . ., ., , affidavit. in addition to his claims this _ affidavit. in addition to his claims this is _ affidavit. in addition to his claims this is a _ claims this is a political witch—hunt, he...