you too. thanks to you at home for being here. we have breaking news tonight, in the investigation into trump s handling of top secret classified government records that wound up at the florida beach club. and the special stay of the special master ruling, judge cannon ruled that she will appoint a special master, an independent third party to review the 11,000 seized records that the fbi retrieved from trump s lome 40 days ago, and in response, the justice department be grudgingly said okay, go ahead and appoint the special master but please exclude the roughly 100 classified documents seized from mar-a-lago because we need to continue the criminal investigation of the classified documents due to special national security interests. also aal second intelligence assessment into the potential risks and harms that may have been caused byat having those t secret classified documents hanging out at trump s club, the justice department argued that thatst assessment could not c
classification and national securityen assessment. just go on, keep doing what you were doing even though d you sa it is not possible. is this is tough news for the justice department andr otentially the intelligence community. judgete cannon did officially ne the special master who will oversee the review of these government records tonight. she has appointed raymond j. deary ain judge for the eastern district of new york who was appointed by rond reagan. first suggested by team trump as one of the picks for special master. the justice department s agreed that the senior judge would be a gooddg pick but the government would like theod special master it would like him to work expeditiously. the d.o.j. has asked if the special master was indeed appointed that he or she wrap it all up by mid october. and today the judge said conclude thedg review by novemb 30th or thereabouts.
but of course, that s where all of the action is. i can imagine donald trump makingi an argument there, aft judge deary makes his ruling, judge cannon will be able to make her ruling and from there, there could be appeals. so you know, this has always been donald trump s game. run out the clock. delay, oudelay, delay. stall as long as possible. but i don t know that he can stall longt enough for this ca to run aground in terms of the 2024 election. i think at some point, it may get delayed by another month but i think at some point, this case will come to fruition and i do think based on all that we know it, seems impossible for the justice department to declineib pursuing criminal charges here there s some new fact of which we re currently unaware. we do know that they probably, the next move is probably to appeal to the 11th circuit of appeals, six of the 11 judges on that are trump appointees. barbara mcquaid former u.s. attorney for the eastern direct of michigan. thank you.