justice department s opposition to a judge appointing a so-called special master to examine some of the government records seized by the fbi at donald trump s florida home. neal katyal, andrew weissmann, and matt miller will give us the expert analysis. the most important thing to keep in mind, the single most important thing to know about the trump lawyers filing tonight is that it does not say one word about something included in the justice department s filing last night. it could get some of the trump lawyers indicted for obstruction of justice. one of the very important pieces of evidence in the justice department s filing last night is a copy of an under oath affidavit written by one of the trump s lawyers, inside and signed by one of the other trump lawyers, swearing under oath on that day that at that moment they were handing over to the fbi and a federal prosecutor a trump s home, all of the government documents that were at donald trump s home at that time, everyt
right before or are still in his draft folder. there is also the possibility of the direct messages. although it is pretty widely reported that president trump didn t use the dms too often. i don t see that as likely. i expect this is mostly about being able to prove it was president trump himself and not one of the many people who at some point had access to his account that sent those tweets that are of interest to the special counsel. until today this was secret. trump or his legal team found out about it over the summer. twitter was fined $350,000 because they didn t comply with this immediately. they didn t meet the deadline. they were arguing basically that they should be able to inform trump and his legal team about it because they believed not doing so violated the first amendment. is that pretty standard for a company like twitter to take that route? yes. a couple things going on. first the gag order attached to the warrant which turns out to be a pretty common practice by
also to prevent the targeted the investigation from notifying others with whom that person is in contact and who could be under investigation themselves. sort of dilley era dm s, the block is hot kind of warning. or develop your cover story. what do you mean? let s say, for example, your dance convene, who is involved with trump s twitter account at the time. when he used it. when he used twitter, right. and if trump have notified of the warrant, you can say to scavino, not only delete your dms, but figure out what you re going to say about things like drafts that i had of tweets that i may have we may have edited between us. one of the things the trailer can get s location data. where were you when you wrote a particular tweet? did you added that tweet? other tweets that are related to your draft folder still? which electronic disasters had access to those are so an imprint related to those things? those are the kind of things that i expect twitter will ask for by the depa
there could be drafts of tweets that he wrote and did not send. thinks he wrote and deleted right before, or that are still in his draft folder. there s also the possibility of it s pretty widely reported, president trump didn t use dms too often, so i don t see that as extremely likely. i expect this is mostly about being able to prove it was president trump himself and not one of the many people who hate someone had access to his account, that sent those tweets of interest. until today, this was secret. trump, i believe, found out about it or his legal team found out about over the summer. twitter was fined $350,000 because they didn t comply with this immediately, didn t meet the deadline. they were arguing, basically, they should be able to inform trump and his legal team about it because they believed not doing so violated his first amendment rights. is that pretty standard for a company like twitter to take that route?
you want to protect the integrity of the investigation. you want to protect the fairness of the trial. and that includes not only protecting witnesses from being tampered with or the jury pool from being tampered with but also to prevent the targeted the investigation from notifying others with whom that person is in contact and who could be under investigation themselves. sort of dilley era dm s, the block is hot kind of warning. or develop your cover story. what do you mean? let s say, for example, your dance convene, who is involved with trump s twitter account at the time. when he used it. when he used twitter, right. and if trump have notified of the warrant, you can say to scavino, not only delete your dms, but figure out what you re going to say about things like drafts that i had of tweets that i may have we may have edited between us. one of the things the trailer can get s location data. where were you when you wrote a particular tweet? did you added that tweet? o