decision on whether to appoint a special master to review documents seized during the fbi search at mar-a-lago. this hearing comes after president trump s lawyers responded to the d.o.j. damning filing on tuesday. in their response, trump s lawyers pressed their argument that an independent review is needed. despite the justice department saying it had already filtered out any privileged documents. trump s lawyers acknowledge that classified material was found at mar-a-lago. but say there was no need to be alarmed. that trump s home should never have been searched for this. while we still don t know what was in the 320-plus highly classified documents that were recovered, we do know, trump attempted to obstruct the fbi s investigation into the handling of classified material. there s a lot to digest. let s go to west palm beach, florida, outside of the courthouse. the hear willing start at 1:00 eastern time today. walk us through what plays out now. about three hours from
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after arguments. thanks so much. what is the law? joining us to discuss, paul kallen and cia intelligence officer, david priest. if i can begin with you, paul. lots of developments yesterday, inside and outside of the courthouse. trump taking issue with the photo showing evidence that the fbi collected, said, no. we didn t keep it on the floor. we kept it in cartons, which the president acknowledging where classified documents were kept. and after his lawyer said they returned everything. is that material to the ongoing investigation? it s material in the sense that it s confirmation that he had in his possession highly classified documents. and if he waved a magic wand over them and said they re not classified, they re still defense and military information. and there s statutes making it a crime for somebody to hold or
is going to read all this. this is a different judge than the judge who authorized the search warrant. this is a judge who had not seen the full affidavit and the full description of everything that had happened. but the government motion made very clear that these were government records, that private citizen trump had no right to be holding on to them in the first place. the entire trump legal argument that it s okay to have sensitive materials because they re part of presidential records in inherently, doesn t hold any water in this case. paul kallen, another question for you. there s the evidence and there s prosecute what efforts to conceal the continued presence of classified documents in mar-a-lago, either not report them, not hand them back or conceal them in another way. would that be an aggravating
and other people around the trump white house at the time claim because there was no knowledge of any such order. and if there s no knowledge of an order and it was not executed by anybody, it probably didn t happen. thanks very much for the insight this morning. the department of justice investigation into the classified documents is one of seven investigations trump is currently facing. our cnn correspondent tom foreman is keeping track of them. jim and i talk about that it s hard for anyone to keep this all straight. it is. quite a constellation of investigation swirling around the former president. let s start with the d.o.j. documents we were talking about. the hearing today is on the issue of a special master. he added another new attorney to help deal with this. hundreds of classified documents removed, as paul noted a minute ago. no answer as to why the former president even has them, let alone why it was stored in a florida resort. and the department of justice