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this is don lemon tonight, and we ve got news on two big stories tonight. we re live here at buckingham palace in london home to the new monarch, king charles iii. and there s news moments ago back home on the mar-a-lago investigation. they ve submitted their proposals to a federal judge for who should serve as special master to review materials from mar-a-lago and how the process should work. it is the latest legal turn in the criminal investigation into trump s potential mishandling of documents. so i want to bring in now cnn senior justice kraunlt evan perez, and senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, laura coates. welcome back to the program, both of you. evan, you just received these documents. tell us more you re learning. they have nominated both sides who they think should be special master, and there s also other details in there. right, don. they ve submitted two names each. obviously they couldn t agree who should be the special master. the ju ....
wanted to order the doj to prosecute his enemies. hillary clinton and james comey. that of course failed fantastically what his white house counsel refused the request. so, once out of office trump took matters in his own hand. in march, trump sued hillary clinton, the democratic national committee, james comey and a whole host of other characters. accusing them of being part of a conspiracy against him. in what he refers to as the trump russia conspiracy. this is all circa 2016. all of these people, according to, trump made up evidence against him in an attempt to deny him to russia hillary clinton and her, quo cohorts, orchestrated in unthinkable plot. trump sought $24 million in damages. that s not an insignificant amount of money. and he chose to file that lawsuit roughly 70 miles from his palm beach home, because the judge presiding in that jurisdiction just so happen to be his appointee. that judge whom we all come to know very well over the past few weeks, of c ....
it says a filter team has already gone through the documents and pulled the ones that could potentially contain privileged information. and it says doj has already given back the private documents that are not a part of the investigation like the expired passports swept up in the shirt. legal analysts argue there isn t a need for a special master here. donald trump is not a lawyer. so discovering attorney-client privileged material is not an acute danger. donald trump is not the president of the united states any more, so economic tough privilege does not apply. and the volume of material all things considered isn t overly large for jauj to review themselves. still, judge cannon did wright she had a preliminary intent to grant trump s request. the question is both why and what will happen next if she does? so, as we await that unusual 40-page response from doj, let us understand the variables. julia ainsley, our homeland security correspondent, has also done extensive c ....
president biden looking to flip the script on republicans with a law and order midterm swing. we re live in pennsylvania with more on that. the news on another speech later this week, and why the president s advisers think now is the time to make a broader pitch to voters, besides the obvious pre midterm timing. two u.s. officials telling nbc news russia has combat drones from iran. what we re learning about how they plan to use them on the battlefield in ukraine and the push to prevent a nuclear disaster in that country. i m hallie jackson in washington. we start with the latest fallout after that mar-a-lago search. i want to bring in nbc s julia ainsley, ben collins, charles coleman, former prosecutor, sich rights attorney and msnbc legal analyst and clint watts, msnbc national security analyst. julia, let me start with you first. the dod ruling is expected to come down at some point today. we don t know the timing. that s what i m trying to say here. we do know it s ....
down claims by trump s attorney that this was a case about records that belonged to trump saying that the documents were not his to have. for her part, judge kennan is at times inclined to order a review of documents into a a special master. quote, justice department attorneys repeatedly pleaded with cannon not to interrupt their ongoing criminal probe that the search warrant excused on august 8th was clearly valid and authorized to obtain evidence of three significant federal crimes. cannon said she was concerned about a couple of instances in which the investigative team had flagged potentially privileged material that was not screened out during the initial review of records. that s the team that was assigned to prevent such occurrences. judge cannon did say that she would unseal a more detailed list by agents at mar-a-lago meaning that we could learn a whole lot more about that extraordinary search. while we await, it is important to put it in broader context. new ....