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 coverag
40-page response from doj, let us understand the variables. julia ainsley, our homeland security correspondent, has also done extensive coverage of the justice department. also with me are msnbc legal analysts lease sta ruben and barbara mcquade. bash rar is a former u.s. attorney. 40 pages. what goes into making a request like this? as you point out, they think this that they need that space to go through and rebut all of the things that the trump legal team set up. they are going to argue is there no need for a special master, that they have already done that work and that they were the people to do so. those being the career investigators inside the fbi who are a part of that filter team. but that it s too late in the process is likely to be an argument we see eand they will reput a lot of the points that trump s legal team are making about the search itself. right now we are having this national debate about the merits of that search.