good evening, everyone. so glad you re with us. i m poppy harlow in tonight for erin burnett. outfront tonight, faceoff, the justice department taking aim at trump s argument for a special master. today, announcing fbi agents have already sorted through those documents and weeded out any material that may be covered by attorney/client privilege. trump s team has argued much of the seized material contained presidential communications and therefore in their view is protected. the former president s attorney today making it clear that trump is not leaving it up to doj to sort the documents. listen to this. now, they are trying to suggest with this pleading, judge, don t be surprised we have already taken care of all this. nothing to see here. well, we re not in a position where we can really have a lot of faith in that. we still need judicial intervention. we need a judge to monitor our access to these documents. also tonight, another court deadline looming. this one fo
that releasing their full reasons for searching mar-a-lago would cause, and i quote, significant and irreparable damage. the justice department now urging a judge not to unseal the affidavit that justified the fbi search over the mar-a-lago home. a document, according to the d.o.j., that serves as a road map to the ongoing investigation including who federal investigators are talking to. saying that it includes, and i want to quote this one, highly sensitive information about witnesses, including witnesses interviewed by the government. that is, witnesses, not witness, witnesses, plural. according to the former chief of the justice department s counter intelligence section who oversaw the investigation of hillary clinton s handling of classified documents, that plural, witnesses, means multiple people told tell doj there was still classified information at mar-a-lago. multiple people. i m going to speak to david in a moment. the justice department also is arguing that redacti
on the factions of former president trump. key witnesses include two top aides of former vice president mike pence who were asked specifically about the fake elector scheme and the role the lawyers played. washington post reporting that investigators have emails and phone records of key officials and aides who served in the trump white house, including former chief of staff mark meadows. so until now there was almost no sign that the federal investigation had touched on the actions of the president himself. that is what makes these reports so significant. it changes the entire framing of what we know that the federal government, the department of justice, is doing here. and it comes at the same time that the new york times has this new report about so-called fake elector scheme, previously undisclosed emails that reveal trump advisers actually use the word fake. joining us now is david loughlin, former senior justice department official and former prosecutor, also rep
Attorneys office here. Of course, when it was the office that was in charge of the prosecution of roger stone. It also played a role in several of those other major ongoing cases that came out of Robert Muellers investigation, and that is the reason why President Trump made the ultimate decision to pull her nomination, essentially surprising several treasury officials who believed she was on track to be confirmed for that job. Now, of course, there are questions Going Forward about who was running that office now. Its currently being run by a close associate of the attorney generals tim shay, that is someone whos now going to be in charge of these cases Going Forward as roger stone is set to is gaining momentum that could help him with the crucial voting be snnsed next week by this judge the president is attacking bloc, africanamericans, and he has picked up endorsements from on twitter and accusing her of bias. Three members of the critics say they believe hes Congressional Black Cauc