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
and ben rhodes, former national deputy security adviser for the obama administration and msnbcra analyst. thanksnd for being here on shor noticeng in the middle of a breaking news hurricane here. first, i want to get your thoughts on the disdain with which this judge is treating the national security community, the justice department, questioning whether or not thesede records e even classified again, as a reminder, washington post reporting on september 6th that there are documents describing a foreign government s military defensesnt including nuclear capabilities, in theng tranche documents that ended up in the broom closet down at mar-a-lago. what did you make d of that language? and what did you make of her posture as it relates to national security? i mean i think it is totally reckless, a little bit insane, alex, and we see these filings, they have the s look of legal documents that beestows a legitimacy on them. but this makes no sense and this is a m judge that has no back