department saying it is already parsed through those documents, which is what is known as a filter team to look for any privileged communications. trump s lawyers acknowledged that classified material was found at mar-a-lago, but argued that should not have been a cause for alarm and should never have led to the search of trump s home. trump s lawyers insisted the national archives should have expected to find classified material because they were presidential records. let s begin this morning with cnn correspondent kara scannell. you re there, you re waiting for this hearing to dbegin. what can you tell us about the filing that came in last night right before the deadline? their main arguments. and notefably what they didn t y what they didn t argue. reporter: that s right, poppy. last night the trump team submitted their filing, 19-page filing, asking the judge to appoint a special master. that s this third party person to review the materials that were seized at mar-
shouldn t have triggered an fbi search. let s go the evan perez this morning. good morning, erica. the trump team largely ignores a lot of the allegations that the justice department made in its bombshell filing a couple nights ago. they are saying it should not have been a surprise that there were classified documents found at mar-a-lago. they were considered personal and presidential records. i will read you part of what they say in the court fueliling. that the records contain sensitive information should never have been cause for alarm. they re saying that the justice department cannot be trusted to just look through the documents and sort out what may be presidential privilege, executive privilege, or at attorney/client privilege. they want to appoint a special master to look at the documents and set aside the things that may be considered privileged. so, we expect that this judge is going to take a look at this filing and really maybe ask some questions about what the
not on the cover of time magazine in march of 2009 but he had been hanging fake magazine covers in his golf clubs to make it look likeve he was. just to be clear here, trump wanted so badly to be on the cover of time magazine that he invented a fake time cover all about himself and hung it up in public, in multiple places all over the country. that forgotten little detail from trump s presidency became relevant again today after the department of justice issued its latestrt court filing in the ongoing courtil battle over accs to the fbi search at mar-a-lago. the filing included this shocking picture, showing some of theow top secret and classifd documents the fbi found during thatdo search. documents clearly labeled top secret, and sci, or sensitive compartmented information and none bear markings that they are declassified which is a t typic part of the declassification process. those documents are also sitting alongside what appears to be drum roll, please, a box with the f
of politically motivated violence. and it all comes as president biden is set to give a prime time speech tonight, focusing on the soul of the nation. we ll have more on his message to a divided country just ahead. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, the 1st of september. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. breaking news overnight, former president donald trump s legal team has responded to the department of justice s latest filing on the classified documents seized during the fbi search of mar-a-lago. in their 18-page filing trump s lawyer suggested that by launching what they described as an unprecedented, unnecessary, and legally unsupported raid on mar-a-lago, the d.o.j. was quote criminalizing a former president s possession of personal and presidential records in a secure setting. trump s legal team also aggressively renewed its request for a special master, or a third party, to review the documents that the fbi agent
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