response to that ultimatum from the special master. when he said he might have no choice but to accept the government s claims that 100 of those documents are classified, if trump s team doesn t step up with the proof that the former president declassified them. and that s really something that trump s legal team has resisted repeatedly asserting both in person and in court and in legal filings. so we saw a filing last night and they said that they might have to save any evidence of declassification to use it as a defense if trump is indicted, and then today in court, trump s attorney jim trusty, he said that the legal team, they haven t seen the documents yet so they can t fully address the declassification issue. so really, they are dodging this question at every turn and really anderson, they have gotten themselves into someone of thorny situation here. the special master is saying he needs proof or else he will believe of the government. in a separate related but in it
to justice department s appeal of the ruling that green lit the special master in the first place. what s the latest on a part of the case? we are waiting for word at any moment from the 11th circuit about what is next in the appeal. of course, the doj is asking for those two things. they want to resume using the classified documents in what s an ongoing criminal case. they also want to stop the special master in trump s legal team from even seeing those illegal classified documents. so time is of the essence in that regard. trump s team actually sent a response today. they said that the appeals court should not go for the government here they. said the government does not need to block documents, they don t need to resume using them, and so they re saying that the 11th circuit should reject the appeal. interestingly, anderson, in their filing, trump s lawyers are continuing to cast doubt on whether those documents or even classified. but what has become a trend here, they refused
he is among other accomplishments, counterterrorism for the cnn counterterrorism. and cnn council carrie cordero, former counsel to the assistant attorney general for national security. carey, lots to talk. about it s a little bit confusing for folks who haven t been following. when you make of trump s team refusing today to go on the record today in front of the special master with their claims about declassification or not of documents? i think the difficulty for them anderson is that they are just right now as far as we know there doesn t seem to be evidence that there really was a declassification. there doesn t seem to be an actual document, either before the fact or after the fact, that they would be able to present indicating that the former president had declassified the documents. the documents themselves, based on the photo that was released by the fbi search, retains its classification markings, so that cuts against the argument that the documents were actually declassif