joining us now are former special counsel to the general counsel department of defense ryan goodman and rebecca roissy. thank you both for being here on what we said was definitely no shortage of news this morning. i wonder what s your reaction to this first filing that we got from trump s legal team today. it took two weeks for them to get there. and they are now asking for this third party attorney. but i think, we re wondering, if it s too late? it does seem too late. it s two weeks after the search began. so you d actually think it should be filed hours after the search began. and it s a reasonable request in some sense to ask for something like this from a third party. why is it reasonable? it s reasonable, because we might think we don t necessarily trust the way the fbi would conduct it. we want an objective third party institution to view things to sort out what they should have versus what they shouldn t. but the content is as quite bizarre. what they re saying
joining us now are former special counsel to the general counsel department of defense ryan goodman and rebecca roissy. thank you both for being here on what we said was definitely no shortage of news this morning. i wonder what s your reaction to this first filing that we got from trump s legal team today. it took two weeks for them to get there. and they are now asking for this third party attorney. but i think, we re wondering, if it s too late? it does seem too late. it s two weeks after the search began. so you d actually think it should be filed hours after the search began. and it s a reasonable request in some sense to ask for something like this from a third party. why is it reasonable? it s reasonable, because we might think we don t necessarily trust the way the fbi would conduct it. we want an objective third party institution to view things to sort out what they should have versus what they shouldn t. but the content is as quite
bizarre. what they re saying that the government should have is not ordinary at all. let s talk about that a little bit. the cork that you re pointing out is they re saying we want this special master to remove documents that may be kufrled by executive privilege but this may be apples and oranges, rebecca, because would executive privilege shield access to the investigation of the documents that the doj says was after documents that vial lace the espionage clause, documents that could be top skreshgts should be in the basement of the former president? right, you re exactly right. there are essentially two things that make the request bizarre. one is that they are asserting executive privilege against the executive branch. i mean, the department of justice is part of the executive branch. that s bizarre to start with. obviously, these documents belong in the national archives. this is exactly why they are to be held by the government
classified documents. and moving them around of sorts. and when they decided to do the search because they were apparently alarmed by this and thought there s a real security breach at a minimum. and now it s really smart to get additional surveillance to see who is accessing the documents right up to the search itself, it would show a lot, both in terms of concerns they have from counterintelligence perspective but also potentially for criminality. what did you make of that? so, i think the sheer number of documents involved. make it hard to believe it was accidental, that i just stuck a document in my briefcase. but here, if you have the actual moving from one container to another, that also makes it looks like this was a very intentional move. this was something done by somebody who had instructed, you know, i want to take these, i want to move them, i want to hide them. rebecca, thank you both for being with us, ryan, great to see you this morning. now, we have a cnn exclus