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They cannot share that with him. it could -- and by what you are describing, as potential delays in this trial, that could be a one-way delay, just having this security clearance process taking far longer than the government claims are necessary. >> joyce, let's talk about how disingenuous this attempt to delay is. if the original hearing was supposed to be on july 14th and now we see this filing from donald trump's council saying, hey, we are all available to go on july 18th. a difference of four days. staying woodward is not going to get that interim security clearance by then, and so we kno...

Before the trial? >> well, the word that comes to mind is delay. it seems that already we are seeing walt not a play the role of the human brain delay. donald trump is showing up on time, but it is walt nauta who delayed for some three weeks to get local council for his arraignment and now says that his other lawyer is not available to handle this classified information procedures act proceeding, that was getting put off until tuesday. and so we may continue to see this. in fact, one of the trump lawyers said they didn't want to even have the hearing in till after they had obtained their secur...

Lawyers days, instead of weeks, to rush the security clearance process for the criminal defense lawyers in the case. donald trump's question tonight about, when will they return everything that was taken from my home as, donald trump comes, once again, very close to admitting to the crimes that he is charged with. that question is a public declaration by inference, that donald trump knew that, he had classified documents in his home, and he wants to continue to, legally, possess them. so, it is now a consistent pattern with donald trump that, whenever he makes the slightest reference to the ev...

Point if they want to keep things going in a fast manner? >> reporter: well, we know that the doj wants to get the security clearance process moving as well. it's not just the judge. presumably all parties will work quickly to get in touch with doj to get the security clearance process moving along here. judge cannon has set the deadline for today for the lawyers to get in touch with doj, for tuesday to report to her about the progress. so presumably, john, she will be monitoring things if not at a daily level, maybe weekly or, you know, gets status reports. she wants to keep this moving as we...

>> reporter: yeah, both doj and the judge, aileen cannon, want this process to move along as quickly as possible. judge cannon's first order of business was instructsing the attorneys to get in touch with doj to begin the security clearance process. our kaitlan collins is reporting that trump's lawyers todd blanche and chris kise have been in touch with doj because of course this case is comprise ds of highly sensitive classified materials and because of that these attorneys need to get security clearance in order to work with all of that material. in another turn here, john, this order is als...