of possible damage to national security about other documents we don t know. we had a search warrant and we spent nine hours at mr. trump s part-time home, but there may be more records and there may be other places and there may be other locations and we can t not review this material that we ve obtained as we continue a criminal investigation that has huge national security implications. frank, chuck rosenberg gave us a nice frame around which to look at the doj subpoena. it was judges don t like to be told what to do by a higher court, the appellate court and judges don t like to be asked to go back and revisit and reverse their own decision, but judge aileen con nor put herself in the box that she finds herself in and she s been rebuked of either being ignorant of national securityster was a red.
last night asked that investigators regain access to 125 documents found in that search of mar-a-lago. that is part of the extraordinary appeal to cannon s order which politico puts like this, it aims to a full-throated rebuke of the ruling by cannon, a trump appointee who was confirmed to a seat after trump s defeat in the 2020 election. prosecutors used the filing to describe her ruling as a danger to national security and one ignorant to the counterintelligence work and lacking in an understanding of the complexities of executive privilege. all of it and the bid to continue to use the classified documents from mar-a-lago in the investigation amounts to a bold gamut from doj. once again, from politico, quote, they re going forward with an appeal despite the risk of cementing an awful precedent.
department is described as the inner workings of the save america pac. trump s main fund-raising vk after the election. similar subpoenas who worked in the white house and for trump s presidential campaign. the doj now digging deep into the conduct of the ex president and his allies is where we start today with some of our most favorite reporters and friends. carol leonig is here and msnbc contributor, also joining us, harry littman and former deputy assistant attorney general and he now hosts the fantastic podcast talking feds. frank figliuzzi is back and now msnbc national security analyst and charlie sykes is here and editor-at-large of the bulwark and msnbc contributor. i want to start with you, carol leonnig because this is fast moving and there was analysis from very senior doj officials