on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. john fetterman, his first tv interview since having a stroke. an update on his health, and how his campaign against trump back doctor oz is going. but we start this evening s broadcast with breaking news in the vesta geisha at mar-a-lago. the next phase of the battle between the justice department and donald trump will take place in a florida courtroom tomorrow. both sides will appear before a trump appointed judge ian mckinnon. she will be the one to decide whether to grant the former presidents plea for a special master to go through those documents that were seized in his florida home. just a few hours ago, his legal team filed its response to the department of justice s objections to having a third party review those documents, citing the need for, quote, independent attorney client privilege assessments and executive privilege determinations. in a court filing revealed at this very hour last night,
adequately made the case in this filing. melissa murray, in the last hour, neil catchall said, this move by trump s lawyers, it s not a legal filing, it s a filing. a lot of the filings have more like ranch than typical filings. i will say that this one is marginally better than the special filing for the special master that was made for just cannon. but again, as i said, when we talked about that earlier filing, it was pretty shoddy. so, the bar is really on the floor. and this is slightly better. but that is [inaudible] yamiche, trump has been all over social media for the last few days. easiest a window into what is going on in his world right now? just bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, as he is watching cable news and watching avoiding lawyers cross? i think that is a good summary, stephanie, of what is going on right. now talking to people close to president trump just watching the way he is dealing with this. he s continuing to deal with
mar-a-lago in the search and seizure effort, there were actually acting under a search warrant that identified several other statutes beyond the presidential records act. those are not mentioned in this filing at all. the filing also notes that it is not going to get into any of the doj s notes about the timeline, the back and forth between the trump administration about the recovery of these documents. aboand indeed, about the doj s bombs that they dropped last night that many of the documents might have been part of a mission to be removed or to obstruct the investigation going forward. all of that, the trump attorney say, they re going to leave to the side. that is quite a lot to leave to the side, even as you are asking for the court to appoint a special master. and so, judge cannon will take this up tomorrow in that courtroom in florida. and the question will remain if there has already been a review of privilege, that thus far, by the fbi what is the need for the special mast
moderator of washington week on pbs. professor melissa murray of nyu law school. she was a law clerk for sonia sotomayor on the federal bench before her nomination to the supreme court. and her dear friend, jeremy peters, reporter for the new york times and author of the new book insurgency, republicans lost their party and got everything they ever wanted. melissa, walk us through this. trump s legal team has now made their move. break it down for us. so this is, again, a little bit better than the initial filing that they made before judge cannon. but not much better. it starts off by arguing that there is appropriate jurisdiction here, because the president does have standing and the argument seems to be that, because the presidential records act has no enforcement mechanism, there was no reason and no enforcement mechanism for the government to remove those documents for mar-a-lago. of course, this leads aside the fact that when the government will cover those documents from