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the biggest nuclear power plant. a pair of u.s. senators who landed, what they're telling our team in ukraine about the surprise visit. we have all of that coming up. i'm hallie jackson in washington. i want to start with nbc news justice reporter ryan riley and former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst carole lamm. ryan, i want to come to you with some of the questions hanging over this filing, some of the key questions our team has identified. is it going to convince a judge not to appoint a special master which is what the department of justice wants. will the filing give us n...

Will take away from what is expected to be a 40-page filing instead of a 20-page filing given that judge has already in some ways showed her hand a bit as to where she feels she might want to end up going as it relates to the special master? >> yes. the judge did indicate tentatively she was inclined to appoint a special master, but, of course, that was before she knew that the department of justice had already concluded its taint review process and often those processes take a long time, but for a small sub-set of documents it doesn't take that long. it took donald trump's lawyers a couple we...

This is why. in the execution of a search warrant, the agents are limited to reviewing and perhaps taking just what happens to be there in the moment, right. i mean, these documents just happen to be lying around when the agents went in and what they were really looking for were these highly confidential and/or classified documents. they were not necessarily looking for attorney-client privilege documents. if they ended up taking them and they had run them through their taint review process, which they did, and that was approved by the magistrate judge who approved the search warrant, then thi...