returned would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude. and a major victory for trump, a third party attorney outside of government will soon be tasked with sifting through thousands of documents to identify personal items and materials that could be protected by attorney client or executive privilege. while it does delay things and slow down, which of course is bad for doj in their case, i think, at the end of the day, we are not going to see a lot of documents pulled by the special master. a judge pointing out some of the seized materials include taxes and accounting information. the ruling, allowing u.s. intelligence agencies to continue their national security damage assessment, but halting the justice department criminal review of its mar-a-lago home. i don t think it has a massive impact in the investigation in the long run. if i were the prosecutor working on this case, i d say, let s just trench forward with a special master, to g
investigation of trump until the review is complete. i want to go to more from sarah murray in washington this morning. reporter: a judge granting donald trump s request for a special master to review the materials the fbi seized from the search at mar-a-lago. the judge writing because of trump s role as a former president the stigma associated with the seizure is in a league of its own. a future indictment would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magn magnitude. a third party attorney outside of government will be tasked with sifting through thousands of documents to identify personal items and materials protected by attorney/client or executive privilege. while it does slow things down, which is bad for doj and their case. i think at the end of the day we re not going to see a lot of documents pulled by the special master. reporter: the ruling allowing u.s. intelligence agencies to continue their national security assessment. i don t think
certified on january 6th. right. we ll get into all of that in a moment. meantime, in florida, a legal victory for former president donald trump, a federal judge there granting his request for a special master to review materials seized from mar-a-lago last month. how much could this complicate, definitely slow down the justice department s criminal probe into the former president s handling of classified documents? we will ask our attorneys ahead. but let s begin with our senior investigative correspondent drew griffin who joins us with all of the details on this newly obtained video from a county in georgia, taken the same day a voting machine was breached. shows the lengths they were going to do try to prove what they never proved, that there was some kind of fraud going on. breaches of voting machines now in swing states are under investigation across the country, guys. this one happened in coffee county, georgia, and cnn obtained this surveillance video at one of t
talked a lot about the frm former president, but now he s putting himself, the record of his administration, front and center as we get closer to the midterms. reporter: there s no question about it and that s because white house officials, the president included, believe they have a record to talk about, a record to hold up as they head into these final days before the midterm election, and as you noted, it is a record that has been bolstered over the course of the last nine weeks by a real flurry of legislative victories. some of the president s key economic agenda items, key climate agenda items, key healthcare agenda items all moving through congress throughout the course of this summer. you combine that with what we saw from the supreme court related to striking down roe vs. wade and there is no question about it. democrats, politically, feel like they re in a railroad diff very different place, but the president s legislative accomplishments are significantly more sub
along with a powerful and heartwarming stadium tradition. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt and good evening i m tom llamas, in for lester tonight we begin with that breaking news on this labor day. the surprise holiday ruling a judge handing former president trump a legal victory, appointing what s called a special master to oversee the documents seized from his home that ruling essentially removing the files from the justice department s possession the move could slow down any further investigation into the former president s handling of classified documents. the doj now has to decide whether it wants to fight that decision and it comes as mr. trump blasts the fbi in his first rally since the search for his part president biden was on the campaign trail today as both ramp up their roles in the final sprint to the midterm elections. kelly o donnell starts us off tonight reporter: tonight the criminal investigation into those classified documents fo