maga forces are determined to take this country backwards. backwards to an america where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. not every republican, not even the majority of republicans are maga republicans, but there s no question that the republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans, and that is a threat to this country. history tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence is fatal to democracy. i will not the will of the american people be overturned by wild conspiracy theories and baseless evidence claims of fraud. i will not stand by and watch elections in this country stolen by people who simply refuse to accept that they lost. democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election, either they win or they were cheated. and that s where the maga republicans
very political nature in this case. i don t think we need any of those things. you have norm eisen filing a brief in the case. he s been all over anti-trump stuff forever. just play it straight. if the documents are as the government says, they re going to have to be a lot of answers provided. and here now is the aforementioned norm eisen, former house judiciary special counsel and donald trump s first impeachment trial, as you heard, norm filed a brief in opposition to trump s request for a special master. thank you for being with us. your name was invoked. your response. well, john, this is such an important case that not me, i was just one of the lawyers for the case with the distinguished group of co-counsel, but seven leading gop legal voices, from every administration prior to donald trump s going back to the reagan administration put together this brief because they wanted to say to the judge, and there is not a political word in it, it is about the law. and they w
department saying it is already parsed through those documents, which is what is known as a filter team to look for any privileged communications. trump s lawyers acknowledged that classified material was found at mar-a-lago, but argued that should not have been a cause for alarm and should never have led to the search of trump s home. trump s lawyers insisted the national archives should have expected to find classified material because they were presidential records. let s begin this morning with cnn correspondent kara scannell. you re there, you re waiting for this hearing to dbegin. what can you tell us about the filing that came in last night right before the deadline? their main arguments. and notefably what they didn t y what they didn t argue. reporter: that s right, poppy. last night the trump team submitted their filing, 19-page filing, asking the judge to appoint a special master. that s this third party person to review the materials that were seized at mar-
shouldn t have triggered an fbi search. let s go the evan perez this morning. good morning, erica. the trump team largely ignores a lot of the allegations that the justice department made in its bombshell filing a couple nights ago. they are saying it should not have been a surprise that there were classified documents found at mar-a-lago. they were considered personal and presidential records. i will read you part of what they say in the court fueliling. that the records contain sensitive information should never have been cause for alarm. they re saying that the justice department cannot be trusted to just look through the documents and sort out what may be presidential privilege, executive privilege, or at attorney/client privilege. they want to appoint a special master to look at the documents and set aside the things that may be considered privileged. so, we expect that this judge is going to take a look at this filing and really maybe ask some questions about what the
investigation. let s break down what each side is arguing before this judge right now. cnn s sarah murray is leading us off. sarah, walk us you therough it. reporter: ana, this is going to be the continuation of this court fight over whether there should be this third party to go through what was seized at mar-a-lago. the justice department has argued that this is not a necessary step. they re saying that the trump team pushed an inaccurate narrative about the search and that putting a special master in place now when they ve already gone through the material is just going to slow down their criminal investigation and could potentially impede this national security risk assessment that has already been under way. they re also pointing out that while there are some potentially attorney-client privilege materials, that executive privilege doesn t apply in this scenario because you re talking about sharing information with the executive branch. but the trump team in their fili