scheduling hearing on the matter for thursday. this, of course, is all coming as the office of national security announced their own review of the documents to determine potential refuse for national security. talking all of this over, and possible developments i wanna bring in washington post josh joce. josh, let s talk about to the latest developments right in tandem with one another that may very well be related at the end of the day. first you have this intelligence assessment which will be ongoing, ranks? the damage possibly done by the documents that were being held in mar-a-lago. you combine that with this possible appointment of this third party, essentially, to look over these documents. if in fact that happens this coming thursday as the judge that, she has the intent to do so. how could one hold up the other if it happens? the former president has repeatedly asked for someone to look through the documents. it has been a couple weeks since he made that request. it
hearing on tuesday. as trump s former white house counsel, cipollone was in the room for many of the key events during trump s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. cipollone s name has come up extensively throughout the six hearings the committee has already held. but it was after we heard from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson late last month that the pressure really ramped up on cipollone to testify, under oath, before the committee. i saw mr. cipollone right before i walked out onto west exec saturday morning and mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure we don t go up to the capitol, calf city. keep in touch with me. we are going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. there are developments today of potential new testimony the committee may hear from two other individuals who were closely aligned with trump. here s the headline for my paper, the washington post. trump considers wavin
extensively throughout the six hearings the committee has already held. but it was after we heard from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson late last month that the pressure really ramped up on cipollone to testify, under oath, before the committee. i saw mr. cipollone right before i walked out onto west exec saturday morning and mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure we don t go up to the capitol, cassidy. keep in touch with me. we are going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. there are developments today of potential new testimony the committee may hear from two other individuals who were closely aligned with trump. here s the headline for my paper, the washington post. trump considers waving claim to executive privilege for steve bannon. my colleagues isaac stanley-becker, josh joce and jacqueline alameda report, quote, former president donald trump is considering sending a letter to stephen k. bann
scheduling hearing on the matter for thursday. this, of course, is all coming as the office of national security announced their own review of the documents to determine potential refuse for national security. talking all of this over, and possible developments i wanna bring in washington post josh joce. josh, let s talk about to the latest developments right in tandem with one another that may very well be related at the end of the day. first you have this intelligence assessment which will be ongoing, ranks? the damage possibly done by the documents that were being held in mar-a-lago. you combine that with this possible appointment of this third party, essentially, to look over these documents. if in fact that happens this coming thursday as the judge that, she has the intent to do so. how could one hold up the other if it happens? the former president has repeatedly asked for someone to look through the documents. it has been a couple weeks since he made that request. it is actual
were not that sensitive, but then there were a handful in fact several dozen that we know about at least that were quite sensitive! let me read for you, josh, some of our own reporting as to what essentially the special master would actually be looking at. i want to know if you have any more information on this. saying if judge can in grants trump s request a special master will be in charge of reviewing documents were issues of privilege not the highly sensitive records at the heart of the governments investigation. what more do you know about what the special master would and would not be looking at? the special master could be looking at documents or between former president trump and his lawyers. things that would be executive privilege from his time at the white house. it is hard to imagine that any of the things that are essential to the government s investigation here, the dozens of top secret documents found, the classified material about special access programs.