brooklyn courtroom where newly appointed special master judge raymond dearie is showing what it means when one actually applies the law while wearing the robe. in the first hearing with the doj and the trump legal team over the review of those classified documents that the fbi seized from mar-a-lago, the trump nominated special master s message to trump s lawyers was clear. and i quote, you can t have your cake and eat it too. that came following sharp questions from judge dearie over what role they expected him to play in verifying the classification of the documents given this is controlled by the executive branch, not the judicial branch. perhaps it s why dearie directly asked trump s team to declare what if any of the classified documents trump declassified before leaving the white house. trump has repeatedly said he declassified all of them, but that has not shown up in any of the filings from his legal team. today his lawyers reiterated what they wrote in their filing l
can t have your cake and eat it, too. so there may be a rude awakening now that the special master is on the job. you might have heard me say this if you follow our coverage. there was a procedural step that the trump folks got that did slow things down, and they wanted that. the procedure is not how you win. it s not how you get out of the clear. it just is a step, a process, and now that they have to deal with this actually judge and deal with a special master and deal with what is a fact based court system, now they re having trouble. in florida, you have a chaotic start. bloomberg reported many people who dialed in did not mute their phones. bloomberg calling it a descent into chaos. people screaming at people to mute, and then someone saying, god bless america. today s hearing comes on the heal of trump s attorneys pushing back on the special master they sought and demanded, which is, if you declassify stuff, and that could be a valid defense if true, well, which things