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do they have them? you d hope so. martha: stay with me, if you would. let s go to david spunt at justice. we got a very brief statement from attorney general merrick garland about all of this. obviously it s a big new development on their plate as well. hi, david. so we know jack teixeira is going to be making an appearance in court in massachusetts federal court. we assume it will be boston. there s other courses in whister and springfield. business on the is the closest federal court. it s possible that initial appearance could happen today. probably more likely tomorrow. we re waiting to get the details to see if anything is coming down. he s not in the court system yet. we re checking in massachusetts. something interesting to point out here. so you know, the attorney general made this brief statement about teixeira and how he s in custody. if this goes through the federal court system, we re going to get an affidavit a lot of documents
investigations into former president trump and the trump organization. we re keeping a close eye on that. meanwhile in the mar-a-lago investigation, the special master there tasked with reviewing the classified documents seized from donald trump s florida estate just held his first meeting in court with lawyers for the former president and for the toj. in a because sign for the trump team, the judge, their hand picked special master, appeared to express doubt that the documents were declassified before the fbi s search. he also indicated he took the government s concerns about national security seriously. he s a former fisa judge. he said, let s not belittle the fact we re dealing with classified information. the government has a very strong obligation, as do all of us, to see it that information did you want doesn t get into the wrong hands.
joining me now is justice correspondent ken dilanian. lisa rubin is msnbc legal analyst. walk us through what we know about yesterday s conference and why it was significant. i think it was striking to a lot of people to hear from the trump team, they are refusing to provide any information about the declassifying of these documents. the judge effectively said to them, put up or shut up. put up or shut up, that s exactly right. i would frame it differently. i wouldn t say he s etc. expressing doubt or skepticism. the judge is saying if you want to say that you declassified these documents, that s fine. but you need to show me some evidence of that. and in the absence of that evidence, the only thing i have to go by is the markings on the documents. he called it a prima facie case. he pointed out that it s the executive branch of the u.s. government that decides what is and what isn ts classified. the justice department has gone into court and said these are classified documents. he s
purpose of advancing their own personal financial and political interests. kerry sanders is live now in fort lauderdale, florida. back with me is legal analyst lisa rubin. how is the governor responding to this lawsuit? reporter: just remember how this all began. the governor of florida last week got two planes and those planes flew 48 migrants from texas. they landed in florida, refuelled and made their way to martha s vineyard. now a group, a rights group for migrants, has decided that they are going to file this lawsuit in massachusetts federal court, along with what in the profession they call jean and john does, three unnamed members in that group alleging they had been defrauded, they had been lured on to these planes with false promises in part given mcdonald s certificates of $10