Damage National Security if released. The departments Court Challenge again expected any moment would be an attempt to reverse cannons restrictions. But theres another aspect of all this to keep in mind. The appeal were talking about would be heard in the 11th u. S. Circuit court of appeals where six of 11 judges happen to be trump appointees. All of this remains up in the air. Another major advancement to tell you about in this story, judge cannon also appointed a Special Master to review those seized document. His name is Raymond Deariement a semi retired u. S. District judge from new york. He was originally suggested by trumps team. He ultimately was approved of by both parties. Dearies deadline is one week after thanksgiving, thats November 30th. Weeks, of course, after the midterm elections and more than a month after the date doj had requested. And when were talking about potential threats to National Security, we all know at this point time is of the essence. Just what makes it
damage national security if released. the department s court challenge again expected any moment would be an attempt to reverse cannon s restrictions. but there s another aspect of all this to keep in mind. the appeal we re talking about would be heard in the 11th u.s. circuit court of appeals where six of 11 judges happen to be trump appointees. all of this remains up in the air. another major advancement to tell you about in this story, judge cannon also appointed a special master to review those seized document. his name is raymond deariement a semi retired u.s. district judge from new york. he was originally suggested by trump s team. he ultimately was approved of by both parties. dearie s deadline is one week after thanksgiving, that s november 30th. weeks, of course, after the midterm elections and more than a month after the date doj had requested. and when we re talking about potential threats to national security, we all know at this point time is of the essence. jus
these issues and to go to the 11th circuit and hope and expect that they will follow the law and do the right thing here. it s not about donald trump. it is about preserving things like the classification of government documents. and on the classification issue, donald trump is playing a very obvious game. he s saying things on talk shows that his lawyers who he has their phone number and talks to them aren t saying in their filings. let me show you what he said on a radio show called hugh hewitt. mr. patel said he witnessed you giving verbal orders to declassify the papers that end up at mar-a-lago. do you remember making those orders? that is correct, and not only that, i think it was other people also were there. but i have the absolute right to declassify. absolute. a president has that absolute right. and a lot of people aren t even challenging that anymore. so barbara, cash patel and nameless other people were there when he declassified him, but
his lawyers couldn t find those people? what are the chance this any of that is true chance that any of this it true? zero chance, i think. number one, a president could initiate a declassification process, but it is the originating agency that has to do that. and they do it after investigating to make sure that sources, lives won t be endangered by declassifying, that programs won t be compromised. you don t just wave a magic wand and say i hereby declassify these documents. you ll notice what the lawyers say in briefs is not that donald trump has declassified documents. what they ve said is he has the power to declassify documents. and i think they are playing it very close to the line here, but they re not going over it because they don t want to make a representation that is not true. and then on top of all of that, it is legally irrelevant to the charges that have been cited in the search warrant because none of those rely on classification as a status, as an element of the of
classified. she reaches this conclusion despite an unrefuted affidavit from the head of the fbi s counterintelligence division. this is the part of it that feels like we re looking up from alice in wonderland s looking glass. what is this? so the classification is one of the core functions of the executive branch. the judge to be saying i don t believe that they are really classified just because you say so, that s what makes them classified, because the government says so. it suggests a distrust of the justice department, and i think an inappropriate second-guessing by a separate and co-equal branch of government. and so i think that even if the justice department thought pragmatically that it might be faster just to let judge dearie go in, look at these documents, make his decision and move on, it might be faster to do that, i think that there are institutional concerns they need to be worried about to not let this record be the final word on