to work in washington for the first time in a month. we ll look at their fall agenda agenda. we are live in georgia with brand new reporting on possible election interference. what this surveillance video shows and maybe more importantly who it appears to show walking into a county election office weeks after the 2020 election. how it all fits into the fulton county criminal problem. i m joe fryer in for hallie jackson. we start with the latest fall out from the judge s ruling granting trump s request for a special master. i m joined by caroline wedding and former fbi consultant andrew wiseman. ken, we re learning more about what this doj ruling means and doesn t mean at least at this point right now. what can you tell us? i m being told this ruling does not put a stop entirely to the fbi investigation into the mishandling of documents at mar-a-lago. there are lots of classified documents that came out of mar-a-lago in january and another batch was handed over in june.
degree on property that ought to be returned would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude. new york times points this out, quote, her ruling seemed to carve out a special exception to the normal legal process for the former president and reject the justice department s implicit argument that trump be treated like any other investigative subject. there are significant questions on how her new ruling will work, especially since the special master is permitted to review documents based on trump s claims of executive privilege. they re claims that have been rejected by the current head of the executive branch, that would be president joe biden. from the times reporting, quote, after trying for months to get the documents back from trump, the national archives, the agency that safeguards presidential records told his lawyers in a letter in may that both the justice department and the biden white house did not believe the former president s execut