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this is the katie phang show, live from miami, florida. we have lots of news to cover and lots of questions to answer. so, let's get started. classified chaos! and the smoking gun in the damning classified documents indictment against former president, donald trump, is so sensitive his lawyers have to get special security clearance. plus, the twice impeached now twice indicted one term disgraced ex president cannot stop incriminating himself. my question is, what does all of this mean for the special counsel's case? msnbc legal analyst and friends of the show, joyce vance, joins us i...

hand will be scanned digitally, not the more familiar fingerprinting with actual ink. and donald trump will be joined in court by his attorneys, former federal prosecutor todd blanche and the solicitor general chris kise. they spent the last day or so interviewing local florida attorneys, but so far have not found any to join the former president's legal team. >> and as we wait for donald trump to make his way to the courthouse, we're keeping a close eye on the scene outside. we have not yet seen anywhere near the kind of huge crowds that miami police were bracing for. though that co...

Katie. there is certainly a lot to talk about lately but this is one of the most important. topics any delay that it engender is well worth because of the purpose of the statute which is to prevent a defendant from using gray mail against the government. in a great situation the defendant essentially says, look united states if you are going to prosecute me criminally i'm going to expose your secrets. i'm going to expose top secret evidence in a trial. the judge is required to make admissibility of that evidence upfront, well in advance of the trial. the government has the option of trying to ...

Prosecution is on notice of just what sort of information is going to perhaps become public. they have other options like trying to create summary documents that are not classified or offering institutions that are unclassified. and if those sorts of substitutes permit the defendant to still put on the same defense that they could use in classified material, then the judge is supposed to sign off on that. you can see how complicated this gets. and one of the interesting impacts of sippia, is that it includes an immediate right of expedited appeal. in other words, if the prosecution here does n...

Priority level for the department? in your summary documents, it's losted after china. does it still occupy the same priority level or has it gone up or gone down? >> the threat posed by russia has remained a priority here at the department. if you asked me to rack and stack it like, you know, a baseball card collection, i'm not going to do that. clearly we assess russia to be an acute threat. we've been pretty clear about that. you don't have to look any further than what you've seen them do the last 30 days to see that we're justified in labelling them such. again, you've said it yourself. i...