washington post post reporting tonight, his lawyers are at odds with one another over legal strategy. his newest lawyer, chris guys, want them to turn down the temperature or the department of justice but the rest of the team, and trump, they don t agree. this, week trump did get a ruling in his favor from the judge in charge of the case. his 2020 appointed judge alien cannon, overruled orders that would force trump s lawyers to backups on the claims he s making in an actual court of law. just hours ago the department of justice filed a new appeal asking to speed up its request to shut down the special master process entirely. the doj is trying to get a hold of the non classified records that were seized at mar-a-lago. with that, let s get this evening started with the help of our lead off panel. john allen, senior national politics reporter for nbc news, barbara mcquade, veteran by the prosecutor, and former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan, charlie
tonight, his lawyers are at odds with one another over legal strategy. his newest lawyer, chris guys, want them to turn down the temperature or the department of justice but the rest of the team, and trump, they don t agree. this, week trump did get a ruling in his favor from the judge in charge of the case. his 2020 appointed judge alien cannon, overruled orders that would force trump s lawyers to backups on the claims he s making in an actual court of law. just hours ago the department of justice filed a new appeal asking to speed up its request to shut down the special master process entirely. the doj is trying to get a hold of the non classified records that were seized at mar-a-lago. with that, let s get this evening started with the help of our lead off panel. john allen, senior national politics reporter for nbc news, barbara mcquade, veteran by the prosecutor, and former u. s.
her motive is. one thing that is odd here is that she appoints a special master and she is essentially delegated to him some of this work. he has fashioned an order, he has asked party to do certain things, he s essentially doing his job, what she asked him to do, and then she second guess is it and changes some of his directives and all of them favor donald trump. one is to not have to say, backup this claim that he has been making publicly that the fbi planted evidence at mar-a-lago. judge dearie had said, by today, he wanted him to specify, which, if any documents were not at mar-a-lago in the fbi came? judge cannon says, not forget about, you don t have to do that. judge dearie also sent an aggressive timeline. she extended that by almost a month. and so it does seem that most of these things are favorable to donald trump. i don t know what her motive zion, but that certainly the effect. we also get a timeline update on when we re getting the next january six hearing. chairman be
not how executive privilege works. there s no precedent on the next president asserting that privilege against the justice department is part of the executive branch against the wishes of a current president successfully. both because ex presidents has less privileged power than the current one, and because executive privilege is not really about internal executive branch matters. nevertheless, judge cannon has entertained that, and the special master has been trying to force the trump team to confront that is a start racking in stacking these documents and saying what kind of privilege might attach to. it one of things it happened this week was the judge cannon in rescuing them from some of what the special master wanted them to do, relieve them of the burden of saying well, this document can be shown to the justice department and, here s why, as opposed to its generic executive privilege. that s one of the things in both of these investigations that is now coming into the foreign is
they will not let anybody in the same building. they drop anything into those piles? did they do it later? there is no chain of custody here with them. that was donald trump himself. he is suggesting that the fbi planted evidence at his mar-a-lago estate after they searched his home for a missing classified document. there is also the endless parade of tv hits from some of his attorneys. that prompted the special master raymond erie to order trump back at that allegation. this time, in court. trump appointed judge alien cannon overruled the special master. she was appointed at the request for trump. she pushed back the deadline to complete the review of documents seized from december