coming out of court yesterday. so more on that in a moment, but it has been a no good, terrible, very bad week for the ex-president and his legal team. his own hand picked special master telling him he can t just declassify documents with his mind. he s got to have proof. he can t just make wild accusations the fbi somehow planted evidence during that search of mar-a-lago. he s got to say exactly what he claims they planted. and oh, there is the new york state attorney general filing a monster civil fraud lawsuit against trump, three of his adault children, and the trump organization, one that could cost them a quarter of a billion dollars. remember that? it s been quite a week. and there s more. tonight the intelligence community has restarted its review of the potential damage from those classified documents being moved to mar-a-lago. and ahead of the january 6th committee hearing next week committee member jamie raskin says they have more to reveal about roger stone as w
truth. i think that is absolutely right. he s been used for decades to being able to wear the other person down with constant delays and constant lawyer pettifogging. and in this case he s up against a determined department of justice and judges who aren t taking any crap from him. john, let s talk about this executive privilege. i want you to weigh in on this, and you can weigh in on the question i asked bob as well, but this executive privilege is a tough hurdle for prosecutors. they ve gotten over it before. the justice department gained access to nixon watergate tapes for a grand jury. that s something you re familiar with. is this a similar situation? this is not a friendly form in some ways for trump to raise the executive privilege issue because it s been resolved at both the court of appeals and with several cases after nixon s case. so i think what trump is doing
eventually they d be back before the court getting a broader resolution of the kinds of issues john was talking about, whether a former president can invoke a privilege against a sitting president, whether whether these conversations are protected by executive privilege at all. and i think the justice department is hopeful they ll get a rule from the court that enables them to go back and get complete testimony from these earlier witnesses. yeah. john, you talked about this a little bit in your previous answer that he keeps getting smacked down. but we keep seeing these put up or shut up moments with trump. in the case of the mar-a-lago documents, a special master ordering trump s team to back up evidence there. is it getting tougher to protect trump in these cases or in this case? absolutely. absolutely. the the idea of a special master probably was a stall, again. and they selected the special master and they got the one they selected, and he s an honest
coming out of court yesterday. so more on that in a moment, but it has been a no good, terrible, very bad week for the ex-president and his legal team. his own hand picked special master telling him he can t just declassify documents with his mind. he s got to have proof. he can t just make wild accusations the fbi somehow planted evidence during that search of mar-a-lago. he s got to say exactly what he claims they planted. and oh, there is the new york state attorney general filing a monster civil fraud lawsuit against trump, three of his adault children, and the trump organization, one that could cost them a quarter of a billion dollars. remember that? it s been quite a week. and there s more. tonight the intelligence community has restarted its review of the potential damage from those classified documents being moved to mar-a-lago. and ahead of the january 6th committee hearing next week committee member jamie raskin