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Country's most classified top secrets, right? for over a year? still stunning to think about more than three weeks after the fbi searched trump's hotel and residence, mar-a-lago. this afternoon, development. trump's lawyers faced off in a federal courtroom against the justice department for the first time since that surge. the question before judge eileen canon, whether or not to appoint a special master to review the documents taken during the fbi's as much. donald trump's lawyers argued that a special master would help identify if any of the evidence seized on august 8th contains potential a...

Doj actually got a search warrant, maybe with some names redacted. even that, the government could very well may have arguments why that is really part of the criminal case and shouldn't be disclosed. it will be interesting to see whether the judge agrees with that because in his oral statements, he said that sort of whether something is meaningful or not is something he is not going to decide, but in his written ruling, he seemed to pull back on that. where we go from here, once he makes a decision, whether it releases some pieces or doesn't release any of it, is that the plaintiffs, that is ...

For hallie jackson. we'll start with the affidavit news. joining me justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and former fbi general counsel senior member of the mueller team and an msnbc legal analyst andrew wisen. thanks for being with us. ken, let's start with what judge is doing. the judge has that redacted version from the doj of the affidavit. what are some scenarios of what could play out next? >> good afternoon, lindsey. well one scenario is that the justice department convinces the judge that so much of this affidavit needs to be redacted, that there's no point in releasing ...

This -- i guess it is a lawsuit that the trump side filed. what is the point of this? is this just more delay? it doesn't -- i don't understand what they think the difference between a special master looking at the documents and a sort of scrubbing team from the justice department looking at the documents would actually be. are they just playing for time? >> well, one thing they're doing is issuing sort of a public press release through a legal document, denouncing the search and calling it an overreach. saying that it violated donald trump's fourth amendment rights, which most experts look at...

Out of that underlying document. i think one thing to really highlight from this is he essentially stands by the decision to authorize this search of mar-a-lago based on probable cause. not surprising, they knew this was going to be very carefully looked at and scrutinized by the public. everything we've seen so far indicated this was done by the book. in this new ruling today, written ruling, judge reinhart writes he found probable cause that evidence of multiple federal crimes would be found. he said having carefully reviewed the affidavit before i found the warrant, i was and am satisfied t...