she did throw them a slight bone in the sense that she said that they may use these documents, which she already said before, in a national security damage assessment. the intelligence community can look at the contents. she added that the fbi can participate in that. she said there s no reason that can t continue and she said the fbi can ask questions about were the documents moved, who had access to them without speaking to the contents of the documents. but, look, she is steadfast in her view that a special master must review all of these documents, all 11,000 seized at mar-a-lago in august, and the doj just disagrees and that s why we re expecting an appeal to be filed any minute now, katy. carol, can you think of a parallel circumstance where the judge says to the justice department, i don t believe you and i m going to let somebody else, a third party, come in and make this decision? certainly not in this context and these kinds of circumstances. i was thinking about it this
charles and the queen consort will host faith leaders at buckingham palace before the king and his siblings head to westminster to stand vigil by their mother s coffin this evening. we ll bring you the latest from london, but first, let s turn to legal news in the united states. right now we re awaiting to see what doj is going to do next now that a federal judge has denied his request for access to classified documents to continue its investigation. legal experts are scratching their heads at the decision. also in the denial, judge cannon appointed a special master. who he is and the deadline the judge set for him. joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, also lisa ruben and carol lamb. walk us through the decision from the judge here. why did she say no to doj about being able to access those
said he would wait and consult with the other subpoenaed members before he will comply, and he has been back and forth about telling more stories especially after trump pulled his endorsement. all five members were asked to testify at the end of the month ahead of public hearings in june, but a lengthy court fight could delay that and then here to answer a couple of the legal questions is a former federal prosecutor and msnbc analyst, carol lamb. this is one of the cases where it s taking place in one branch of government. you have operation separation of power issues, and is congress the judge and jury here? yeah, that s the right
nicholas, give us a sense of what s next here for this committee? well, chairman champson actually told us late last week that his first hearing he wanted to hold of this committee would be to convene members of the capitol police to talk about their experiences on january 6th when many were seriously injured, beaten by rioters. we saw many are still coping with the psychological trauma of being attacked that day. that will be a powerful hearing. then after they move on from that we could potentially hear from other former administration officials and others that this committee wants to bring in to try to penitentiary a fuller picture of what happened that day. jeff, we are going to hope that your camera hangs out for us for this next question. but in the next segment nbc legal analyst carol lamb said last night s rally was a preview of what we might hear from allen weisselberg s defense here. when you heard the comments
care about their brands and no matter how you slice it, right, it is tough to see how the trump organization as a brand is able to spin this as a positive that an indictment is coming down from the d.a. there s no doubt. look, politically, if you thought donald trump was a tax cheat you probably didn t need today s news for that. you probably thought that some five or six years ago. stick around for a minute. go ahead. let me jump in. if you thought donald trump was being wrongly persecuted by an unfair media and liberal prosecutors in new york this probably hasn t changed that either, right? right. exactly. let me bring in carol lamb. carol, walk us through the process of what we re seeing here today, which is the targeting of one individual who if he decides to take the fall himself there s one set of consequences. but let me ask it this way, if allen weisselberg is put on trial, will it mean that the