him to say. right now in jackson, mississippi, residents are facing a fourth day without reliable running water. we re life on the ground. in ukraine, u.n. inspectors are at europe s largest nuclear plant under russian control amid fierce shelling in the area. we begin with what will be a crucial day in the legal battle over classified documents seized from donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. the judge will hear arguments on the former president s request for a special master who filter out privileged materials. it comes hours after his legal team filed a defiant response to a blistering justice department filing late tuesday. his team argued it should have been, quote, fully anticipated that trump would have sensitive material at his home. his lawyers describe the documents as, quote, his own presidential records. even though the law says they belong to the government. trump s team also argued a special master to review the documents is needed because, quote, left unchec
and rea mitchell kicking off a special two-hour edition of andrea mitchell reports today. we are in washington as the focus on the classified documents seized from donald trump s mar-a-lago estate is going to shift in the next hour to a courthouse in west palm beach, florida. that s where trump s lawyers and the justice department are clashing over the former president s request for an independent master to go through the stack of files taken from mar-a-lago to see where any might have involved attorney/client privilege. the government says they have already done that and doing it again could harm the investigation. meanwhile the current president is going to be in philadelphia this afternoon into the evening at independence hall delivering a primetime speech on threats to our democracy, what he calls saving the soul of the nation. and another midterm special election win for democrats overnight. alaska voters rejecting former vice presidential candidate sarah palin s bid f
his lawyers describe the documents as, quote, his own presidential records. even though the law says they belong to the government. trump s team also argued a special master to review the documents is needed because, quote, left unchecked, the doj will impugn, leak aspects of their investigation with no recourse for movant but to somehow trust no one. the justice department says a special master is unneeded because it would impede the ongoing criminal investigation as well as the intelligence community s assessment. the department said it had evidence of an effort to obstruct the investigation with documents likely concealed or removed before the search took place. with us now to talk about all of this, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken da dilanian and vaughn hilliard,
so i also want to bring in paul butler, former federal prosecutor. paul, in the filing, trump s attorneys wrote in part, quote, left unchecked, the doj will impugn, leak and publicize selective aspects of their investigation with no resource for trump but to have the unchecked investigators. when you don t have a defense of the charges, you attack the prosecutor, you attack the investigators. importantly, donald trump has not been charged with any crime. but when you think about this obstruction of justice crime that s listed in the search warrant under and what we ve learned about that since then, trump is not responding. he s still not saying why a federal judge found probable cause to think that mar-a-lago was concealing documents that
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