master to review the materials seized by the government. more on those developments in just a moment, including reaction from senator patrick leahy. also this hour, steve kornacki on today s primaries, including the fierce new york congressional race pitting two veteran democratic colleagues against eac other both chairs over one redistributed seat. and the latest on primaries in florida and oklahoma. and teachers are in columbus, ohio, after bargaining associations with the school board stalled. first to the classified documents seized from mr. trump. joining us is justice and as well jens correspondent ken dilanian, former u.s. attorney joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official chuck rosenberg and national reporter coral linnick, coauthor of the best selling author i alone can fix it. ken, tell us more. a letter from the national archives to trump s lawyers back in may was published by john solomon who has ties to trump. officials are not pulling b
trump administration and out in the former trump administration and trump aides, because twice before a special master was used to to make sure in raids of searches from documents of michael cohen and former trump legal adviser rudy giuliani to make sure records taken from them were not privileged, especially attorney/client privilege. now the special master was the same person in those cases, and they were trying to just be an objective, independent expert, but looked at this material before the feds did. in this case, it s hard to see what donald trump s attorney/client or executive privilege is. donald trump in his lawsuit claimed that all documents are presumptively privileged. the problem here is the national archives and the fbi and the division of the department of justice have been pressing donald trump for now going on
meeting, particularly chairman of the house intelligence committee told kristen welker that this was the kind of meeting, this kind of evidence that he wants his committee. he intends to ask questions robert mueller about because it pertains on the idea that there was potential collusion between the trump campaign and the russian government. and in adam s schiff s words, even if there wasn t enough evidence to bring charges, it doesn t mean there wasn t some sort of wrongdoing there. now for some analysis, nico, let s talk about this. before i do i want to play this sound bite and what he said to brian williams about robert mueller. take a listen. i think it looks like they re trying to gag mueller and trying to say that anything that s not in the report is presumptively privileged.
i would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before congress. and then today it got even more interesting when the justice department sent mueller a letter, reminding the now former doj employee that there are limits to what he talks about on wednesday. quote, testimony must remain within the boundaries of your public report because matters within the scope of your investigation were covered by executive privilege, including information protected by law enforcement, deliberative process, attorney work product and presidential communications privileges. earlier on this network, the former acting u.s. solicitor general neil katyal said this development concerns him. i think they re trying to gag mueller and say that anything that s not in the report is presumptively privileged. mueller is so by the book that that will influence him greatly. politico is reporting robert mueller has been preparing extensively for the hearings. if he didn t, it
and the report is my testimony. i would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before congress. and then today it got even more interesting when the justice department sent mueller a letter, reminding the now former doj employee that there are limits to what he talks about on wednesday. quote, testimony must remain within the boundaries of your public report because matters within the scope of your investigation were covered by executive privilege, including information protected by law enforcement, deliberative process, attorney work product and presidential communications privileges. earlier on this network, the former acting u.s. solicitor general neil katyal said this development concerns him. i think they re trying to gag mueller and say that anything that s not in the report is presumptively privileged. mueller is so by the book that that will influence him greatly.