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portion causing the most serious and immediate harm to the government and the public. one, restricting the government's review and use of records bearing classification markings. and two, requiring the government to disclose those records for a special master review process. the doj asking for the court to allow its criminal investigators to review the materials marked as classified and for the court to exclude those documents from the special master's review of the search. it is a fight that could go all the way to the supreme court, so we must talk about this now. i want to get rig...

Boxes. it's also relating to the january 6th situation. i mean, if you had to pick one person that the government is going to focus on, bring charges against and turn into a government witness, it's going to be mark meadows. i mean, he originally started to cooperate with the january 6th committee, gave them a bunch of e-mails. but then when donald trump started going at him on the internet and calling him all kinds of names and backing him into a corner, he just clammed up. but he is a weak individual, and i vote him most likely to turn and be a government witness before this is all over. >> ...

Records for a special master review process. so don, this is a limited appeal and it's possible that with this limited appeal, that the 11th circuit might act quickly here. >> jessica, the doj seemed to have a message for the district judge eileen cannon. what did it say? >> right, it was interesting. in the last part of this appeal here doj seemed to really take a shot at the lower court judge here and they said she was plainly wrong even stepping into this dispute when it comes to classified documents. and they said they're clearly the government's property. the former president has no claim...

This mar-a-lago classified document fight. so what do you know? >> yeah, so there really seems to be strategic about this. they're asking the 11th circuit to step in immediately and do two things. first, they want the court to clear the way so prosecutors can resume using classified documents that they recovered from mar-a-lago as part of the criminal probe. the lower court judge halted that and said you can't use those classified documents and doj is also saying trump's legal team and the newly appointed special master should not have access at all to those documents. they said although the g...

This just into cnn. tonight the doj asking an appeals court to put on hold a third party review from the fbi search of mar-a-lago and asking for the 11th circuit to take action as soon as practicable going on to ask the court to allow its criminal investigators to review the materials marked as classified and exclude those documents from the special master review of the search. here to discuss cnn's justice correspondent jessica schneider, legal analyst elie honing, and philip mudd. good evening to both of you. jessica, i'll start with the doj, the justice department vowing an appeal asking th...