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One hand or giuliani on the other hand, you know that there will be documents that in fact the government doesn't have any business looking at with respect to other clients. so oftentimes a special master is appointed right away, an outsider to look at the documents. these documents presumably belong to the united states, and so the notion, all of them belong to the united states to the extent that they are presidential records. so he bears the burden of suggesting why anyone -- anything should be taken out of the box and anything should be looked at differently. and then the final issue is th...

"this is legally pointless "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...

President trump on friday to refine his arguments, this squ for a special master to review these documents. we should note there was already a review team of a sort, a filter team that's going through these documents to see if there are those that fall into the category of attorney/client privilege here. i mean, paul, do you see this in your experience as something that's going to go somewhere? that a special master may indeed be assigned? >> i think this motion has been made way too late in the game. they waited two weeks before they submitted this motion to the court and as you've said, this...

Lawyer's office you know you are going to find a lot of attorney/client privilege documents. so what the justice department likes to do is have what they call a filter team which are lawyers who don't have anything to do with the investigation. they take the first pass through the documents and they decide what the prosecution team is allowed to see. and the idea is make sure they don't get tainted by privileged information. what the trump people are saying is we don't like the idea of the justice department doing that unilaterally so the justice department gets to decide what the justice depa...

Guess resubmit its request. what's going on with that? >> yeah, because they made it to a different judge and that judge sort of gently said they need to convince her she has jurisdiction, that it shouldn't be going to the magistrate deal with the warrant issues and other conditions they need to meet to convince her this is even a legitimate exercise. they're asking for a special master, which would be an independent set of eyes to sift through documents regarding, for example, attorney/client privilege. it's been more than two weeks for the search and presumably the fbi has gone through the b...