security peiter zatko, alleging the social media giant s leadership misled its own board, and government regulators about security vulnerabilities that could potentially open the door for foreign spying, hacking and disinformation campaigns. those are stunning, serious claims sent to congress and several federal agencies last month. our very own cnn correspondent donie o sullivan sat down with him to talk about this. here s the story. reporter: ready? yes. reporter: why are you coming forward? all my life i ve been about finding places where i can go, and make a difference. reporter: this is peiter zatko, until january of this year he was head of security at twitter, but now he s a whistle-blower, and he says twitter security problems are so grave, they are a risk to national security and democracy. twitter is a critical resource to the entire world. i think it is an extremely important platform. reporter: he handed over information about the company to various
it did take two weeks, which is significant in and of itself because the point of having this person, which is actually not that unusual for them to make this request and for what is known as a special master, really a third party, outside attorney, and in cases before it has been a retired judge, for example. they would come in and be able to help separate the documents of what the fbi took during that nine-hour long search and go through what they believe is considered executive privilege or privileged material, attorney/client privilege. that s what they re looking at. the fact they waited two weeks, we heard from people, this is a point of disagreement inside trump s legal team, maybe it is too late, because the fbi likely has already gone through this material and so they did wait two weeks, but the thing that it could benefit the trump team and one advantage they see in doing this is it could slow this down. because they want a pause on the investigators work until they get th
statements, as white house declarations, essentially. this is serious stuff if people get these controls. yeah. no question. states with greater capabilities than a couple of teenagers and potential consequences are huge. donie o sullivan, thank you so much. thanks. well, the other top story we re following this morning, former president trump s legal team is pushing for what is known as a special master to review the documents, many of them classified, which the fbi seized from his florida estate. that s right. so in this suit, trump argues his constitutional rights were violated, and privileged materials may have been taken from mar-a-lago. the legal maneuver, if it slowed down, the doj s ongoing criminal investigation, what else could it do? let s speak with kaitlan collins following all the latest. you re in new york, usually you re at the white house. good to be inside. this is the first official legal response from trump s team. took two weeks to file. what do you t
list that the fbi released when it was unsealed from the justice department argument. they want to see exactly what they took because they don t really still have a good idea of what was in the boxes beyond what trump knows, what trump knows that they took. and so that is what they re searching for in all of this. okay. there is a trump playbook in defending against a whole host of investigations, and oftentimes they re public comments, public comments can differ what his lawyers are arguing in court as we have seen in this case. how does this latest step by trump s legal team fit into that strategy? yeah, it certainly does look a lot like the playbook we have seen trump take before. if you read this document, it technically is a legal document, because it is this motion that they filed, their first legal action, and so they have been saying a lot publicly on social media, on television, this is the first action they have actually taken in court. but if you read this document, it