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reporter ryan riley and kelly o'donnell. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. ryan, can you get us up to speed on the latest? in my read of this, she is also enjoining the government from using the seized materials for investigative purposes, but is not preventing the director of national intelligence from proceeding with the damage assessment, correct? >> that's right. it's a pretty devastating ruling for the government. the biggest question here was whether or not the special master was going to have authority over the executive privilege claims. that was really the biggest issue. if...

tonight on why he's been calling for all court papers to be made public but not doing so in the place that it matters most, the courtroom. clarissa ward is in afghanistan and her harrowing return to a place deeply affected by the war and what she found when she got there one year after american troops departed. we begin with the search at mar-a-lago and the fight against unce unsealing documents. jessica, walk us through what the judge ordered today. >> anderson, the judge telling doj to go back to the drawing board and find a way to release some of this information from the affida...

details the potential offenses being investigated. you can see there, it says willful retention of national defense information, also concealment or removal of government records. also obstruction of a federal investigation. that willful retention that you see there, anderson, it's key because legal experts are telling our evan perez and caitlin polantz that it's that language that points directly to the former president as a possible subject of the criminal probe. something else that was released was the motion to seal, and it has federal prosecutors expressing their concern that, a...

Clearance. it is unusual what was done here. one explanation is this is a consciousness of guilt. there is awareness that there is a problem. obviously it has become on enormous problem. to cover it up, to deep six it in some code word national security database which would never include something as banal as a call memorandum even if it was confidential is a red flag for me. by the way, there is reporting out there that there were other call transcripts put in the database. i would like to know what the reason for that was since it seems to be where you try to hide the president's misconduct....

Result of their involvement, those are all things that we can bring them in for or ask them for written testimony or private testimony and check on those. so -- and he pulled his punches. there were a number of times when he could have really gone in the way that a questioner might have wanted but he didn't do that. that's why i felt he was being truthful. he has a lot to lose for not being truthful as well, reverend al. >> you went into another area where this week you're questioning the classification of top clearance of jared kushner. tell us what is your position there and what you hope to...