cnn has learned that christina bobb was at least one of the people giving those assurances, even signing a letter saying so. the doj filing goes on to say the documents were, quote, likely concealed and remove frd a storage room at mar-a-lago as an effort to, quote, obstruct, unquote, the fbi investigation. it says that some recovered items were so classified that even some fbi counterintelligence personnel and others needed additional security clearances to review them. so, that s for the doj filing. now, again, just seconds ago, we got the trump team s reply. cnn s sara murray and josh campbell join us now with a look at what s in it. that s right. we are just starting to look through this. essentially what the trump team is focused on is this argument about this special master and whether there should be another outside party who is reviewing the documents that the fbi seized when they searched mar-a-lago in august. and it is very clear in this filing that the trump team
seconds, ago lawyers for the former president took the next step in the effort to force an independent review of materials taken from his florida mansion. they are court. filing, which we just got our hands on a second ago, caps a day of reaction to a justice department filing. and the picture, this one in attachment f, it shows highly classified documents that the fbi says it s found despite written assurance two months prior according to doj. that none remain there. cnn s learned that trump attorney and former ankara christina bob, was one of the people giving that assurance, signing a letter saying. so the doj filing goes on to say the documents were quote, likely concealed and removed from a storage room at mar-a-lago as part of an effort to quote, obstruct, unquote the fbi investigation. it says that some recovered items were so highly classified that even some fbi counter intelligence personnel and others needed additional security clearances to review them. so, that s
have witness names on there. and the justice department has said they want that sealed because they don t want that part being public. they don t want the names of the witnesses in their investigation becoming public and allowing trump to interfere with it. they made that clear in their filings. they said they would propose a list of candidates to be special master by next sunday. that goes back to the argument the trump team just wants the special master, the third party attorney, to look over what was taken from mar-a-lago to potentially slow this case down. shan wu, on the case of special master, they re not unheard on issues dealing with attorney/client privilege here. and the justice department said that their own team as it were has identified some areas, some documents, which would be turned over. is there a case independent of all the rhetoric back and forth? does the trump team make any cogent case here that a special master could be useful? no. there are some arguments
subject of a special master, they are not unheard of in issues dealing with attorney client privilege here. and the justice department had said their own taint team as it were has identified some areas, some documents which have been turned over. is there a case independent of all the rhetoric back and forth? does the trump team make any cogent case here that a special master could be useful? no, there are some arguments, i don t want to give them suggestions, but they could lean more just into the exceptional nature of this. they recognize that special masters are usually used only in attorney-client privilege review point. they re still trying to push the boundary here, to get the special master to have jurisdiction over executive privilege, even though that s been shot down repeatedly. they referenced the archivist procedures here, that they give some deference to a former president. they even say executive privilege really benefits the united states. and somehow, they want to boo