justice department speaks through its court fights. today in 40 pages it will say a lot. i look forward to it. 40 pages is a lot. there is also a request for the inventory list, lisa. but we should not expect to see that? no, we shouldn t. there are two things that judge cannon has ordered doj to file. both of which will be under seal. in addition to the 40-page brief or the up to 40-page brief we will see publicly, that s a more detailed inventory of what was taken as well as what she calls particularized detailing of what review the fbi and the department of justice have done so far. we know that they have completed, for example, their review of any potentially attorney-client privileged materials. we ve gone through the
detailed inventory list. we saw a generic one, i would say, where it talked about the note about roger stone s clemency that he got, information about the french president, the rest of it, nine sets i believe of classified docum documents. in addition to that, they want a more detailed list of really what they have. and they also would like for essentially anything that they say that is outside the scope of the search warrant to be returned to them. we know, for example, they had some of the passports of the former president s. they already returned those. we don t actually know if they have anything else that s outside the scope of that. but basically his legal team is arguing, if you do have anything else, we d like you to give it back, which is pretty standard. what with the timeline of any legal action be? as you said, this would b basically just delay the entire thing? and they know that would work potentially to their advantage. it s not that unusual they asked for a special
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
line from the fbi and you know this mar-a-lago raid i think brings it all into the sunlight and we re going to ultimately through this process that could start as soon as tomorrow, you know, we could learn a lot more about you know, sort of who is putting their thumb on the scale in order to get trump, ultimately undermine the justice department. will: matt, really quickly, just 30 seconds here, what do you think will happen in the coming weeks? you ve been the head of this organization. you ve seen a raid. you know that usually means impending action. what do you think will happen? will they indict trump? yeah, i don t think so, at least not in the near term. we re in the nine-day window where no overt criminal law enforcement efforts are taken. so i think it will go quiet. this hearing is interesting, this motion to be filed as soon as tomorrow, we could learn a lot more about the case with more detailed inventory list and we re certainly the fbi is going to have to put up mower in
officials in the administration and white house is exactly what was taken to mar-a-lago and whether what was taken could imperil the way the u.s. gathers intelligence and the sources they gather it from, now the white house is not exactly sure about what was included in those documents taken to mar-a-lago. they had read the inventory list. officials say the same one released to the public last week but still, there is concern over how they were handled and whether the process of how they were handled to take to mar-a-lago could put it into places not meant to go. there is a diplomatic aspect because on the inventory list, french president macron opens up questions whether or not that could have diplomatic implications on the rela relationships that the u.s. has with france and the way they gather information. so of course, here we have a real window into how the white house is privately concerned. they haven t said much publicly about the risk this information being stored in places th