returned would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude. and a major victory for trump, a third party attorney outside of government will soon be tasked with sifting through thousands of documents to identify personal items and materials that could be protected by attorney client or executive privilege. while it does delay things and slow down, which of course is bad for doj in their case, i think, at the end of the day, we are not going to see a lot of documents pulled by the special master. a judge pointing out some of the seized materials include taxes and accounting information. the ruling, allowing u.s. intelligence agencies to continue their national security damage assessment, but halting the justice department criminal review of its mar-a-lago home. i don t think it has a massive impact in the investigation in the long run. if i were the prosecutor working on this case, i d say, let s just trench forward with a special master, to g
bret: breaking to make him gt a former president trump will get arba third-party arbiter to review documents taken from his home in florida by federal agents last month. a judge came down in favor of the trump team s request today, rejecting arguments fromcial prosecutors that the special master was both unnecessary and unwisedavi. correspondent david spunt has tonight s top story. good evening. good evening tood eveni you.u this judge s order out just hours ago as a temporary legal victory for the former president and gives him more political opportunities to attack an ongoing grand jury investigation his handling of sensitive documents. days after asking what is the harm with naming an outside neutral party to review thousands of documents seized by the fbi, judge eid a cited to review the seized property for personal items documents potentially privileged materials to claims of attorney-client and/or executive privilege. the order still allows intelligence communit
on, and sat down. you know the breaking news beckons. yeah when, the breaking news beckons. thank you, victor, i ll see you tomorrow. this is don lemon tonight, and won t be long now, because it s got to happen before midnight, any minute now we re expecting the doj s response to team trump s request for a special master to drop. and this is not just some routine paperwork, it s going to get a lot here. it s gonna be a, doozy so you want to stay tuned. again, it s supposed to happen before midnight, so it s supposed to happen in the hours that were on. now the justice department got special permission from the judge to submit an extra long response, up to 40 pages, twice as long as a usual 20-page lemon. the doj says they need to quote, adequately address the legal and factual issues raised by trump s filings. what is in those 40 something pages? we should know soon. but those factual issues, it certainly sounds intriguing, doesn t it? so remember, this is all about tru
live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with john vause. damning new details this hour with the fbi search of donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. the justice department says confidential documents were likely concealed and removed from storage to obstruct its investigation. the revelations are part of the departments court filings against trump s request for a special master to review evidence seized from mar-a-lago. the justice department also argues that trump lacks standing to intervene in a federal investigation, because the documents belong to the government, not to him. more now from cnn political correspondent sara murray, reporting in from washington. the justice department weighing in with its side of the story of what happened in the run up and in the aftermath of the search at mar-a-lago. this is all part of the court battle that s playing out over whether there should be a special master, an independent third party, appointed to review the documents t
filing. all right. let s beginning this morning with kara scannell. kara, these are stunning developments. walk us through the key the key revelations that tells us so much. yeah, i mean, what we ve really learned from this, from the department of justice filing, they say when they went and executed this search warrant at mar-a-lago three weeks ago they recovered twice as many classified documents than what the former president s legal team had given them pursuant to a grand jury subpoena in june. so this all goes right to the department of justice s position that the trump team has not been cooperative with this investigation, they re really trying to put forth a counternarrative him. they say that the fbi in a matter of hours recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the diligent search that the former president s counsel and other representatives had weeks to perform, calls into serious question the representations made in the june 3rd certifi