investigators saying this left unchecked, the doj will impugn, leak and publicize selective aspects of their investigation. one of trump s attorneys on fox news last night. they don t understand. something could be marked top secret, could be marked classified. the presidential records act, he would have said this is declassified. it doesn t get a new marking all the time. he s left the office. it is a complete public spectacle. we should note nowhere does it mention the idea of him declassifying any of these documents. in fact, the former president s team agrees in a special master should have top-secret security clearance, but here s the thing. according to dozens of pages of court documents essentially all of the new information that we learned in the last two days, about the former president and his lawyers possibly lying about these documents moving them to keep them hidden s even think pes cher of apparently classified documents found in trump s office, all of tha
just talking about. speaking specifically of the appointment of the special master and why they feel as if it is necessary here. let me read a bit from the filing for you, carol, if i can and have you react to it saying this courts assessing past requests for appointments of a special master assume rightly the search and seizure standing of review of these materials. it would seem reasonable for the court to follow the same procedure, assuring access by moving counsel to the seized material sharing an actual detailed inventory, making independent attorney/client privilege assessment and executive privilege determinations, all sports best served by appointment of a special master. carol what do you maeve of this argument? right ux and all that s developed in the last 48 hours since we thought judge cannon was leaning towards the appointment of a special master here? one of the problems with
keep them hidden s even think pes cher of apparently classified documents found in trump s office, all of that came out. the court filing, in response to the former president s request. in other words, had he not pushed for this special master it may not have come out of at all. i want to bring in nbc s reporter outside the courthouse in west palm beach, florida, and ryan riley, nbc s justice reporter covering this as well, and asha, served as special agent in the fbi s counterintelligence division and carol lamb a former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. welcome all, guys. thanks for joining us. a lot going on this hour obviously awaiting for a short decision on this inside the courtroom there in west palm beach. behind you, start there, set the scene for us, what we can expect from judge aileen cannon today. how quickly can this decision come? reporter: right, waiting for judge cannon to walk into the
a special master is not that consequential to the department of justice. here s what i would expect. i would expect that the, even if the judge says, yes, i m going to appoint a special master to look over anything that the fbi s team said may have been attorney. alicia: attorney-client privilege all of. reporter: they don t need to look at that. hair not communications between the former president and anyone else. those are pre-existing government documents. so you can see it in the government s pleading itself. at the end they kind of shrug and say, if you want to appoint a special master, go ahead. these are the conditions that we recommend. but they re not very worried about this motion. carol, thank you so much for joining us and i know you ll stick around. i ll speak to you later on. thank you for that.
that s not how this process works. you need a contemporaneous record you declassify something. the reason that allegation, that trump declassified a bunch of documents wasn t made in court, because it s a court of law. it s not true socially. you can t just throw out garbage and expect to do fly. can t make assertions in a court of law and we with didn t see that coming from the lawyers, because there s no factual basis or evidence of that other than a breitbart news story that came out after the fact and kash patel made that allegation in that breitbart story, ultimately made its way into the, into the search warrant affidavit that was unsealed just last week. carol, 30 seconds left. take a look at the courthouse in west palm beach, what are you expecting? hasrd to say what to expect in an unprecedented situation. al let me say this end of the day, this motion for