committee because of executive privilege? absolutely. that s right. that nails it. on the mar-a-lago documents case were you surprised at the ruling at all? no, i wasn t surprised. you know, to some degree trump has been able trump s lawyers have been able to play out this string. and, you know, because you are journalists and you want to give due to what they were filing, they were filing documents, which, you know, to anybody who knew anything, made no sense. the notion that any criminal defendant after a search can go into a court and say stop the presses here, i want to look at all the documents, give me back the documents, i want to see whether you see things that you shouldn t have seized. and any criminal defendant let me actually change that. anybody who has a search before they were indicted had rights to control the investigation is absurd. there s certainly attorney-client privileges. law firms get special masters,
on this order from the special master tonight. it is not an easy documentary, two and a half pages, i did my best with it. i tried to decipher it. have a feeling about what is going on there, but what do you make of it? here is the deal, lawrence. they re the documents, not the classified ones, remember, that he is reviewing. 90 or so of them are making a claim of attorney client privileges, they will call bold and short on that which is what special master s new, you would not have needed him here, but that is straightforward. then there are the other 28 documents where he is not claiming attorney client privilege is. this is the most interesting to me. what he is saying he is you give these now to the case team, privilege review team, and case team you can with trump about if there is any executive privilege claim to be made, and get back to me by october 20th. that means by october 20th,
analyzed are not protected by attorney client privileges, or any other privilege. tonight, according to reporting in the new york times, the justice department faces the possibility of having to obtain more search warrants to search more trump properties for more stolen government records and classified records. the new york times is reporting that the justice department suspects what everybody else in the world suspects, which is that donald trump still has more documents, i m that he has not turned those documents to the government. the times reports a top justice official told former president donald j trump lawyers as recent weeks that the department believes he had not returned all of the documents he took when he left the white house. according to two people briefed on the matter, the outreach from the official, gi brett, who leads the departments counter intelligence operations is the most concrete indication
this later in this hour, herschel walker s current wife and never, ever responded to the question about what she knew about herschel walker paying for the abortion. we are going to cover more of this later in the hour when we will be joined by georgia residents and new york times columnist charles blow. first, the special master in the appropriate issued a two and a half page order that indicates the processing of the non-classified documents and the case, appears to be moving smoothly with donald trump s lawyers agreeing with the government lawyers that several documents they have already analyzed are not protected by attorney client privileges, or any other privilege. tonight, according to reporting in the new york times, the justice department faces the possibility of having to obtain more search warrants to search more trump properties for more stolen government records and classified records.
they re the documents, not the classified ones, remember, that he is reviewing. 90 or so of them are making a claim of attorney client privileges, they will call bold and short on that which is what special master s new, you would not have needed him here, but that is straightforward. then there are the other 28 documents where he is not claiming attorney client privilege is. this is the most interesting to me. what he is saying he is you give these now to the case team, privilege review team, and case team you can with trump about if there is any executive privilege claim to be made, and get back to me by october 20th. that means by october 20th, trump is going to have to come forward with some theory or else why there is any kind of executive privileges to give