atlantic and the pacific. and accusations of torture against ukrainian citizens at filtration camps run by russians. we are live in kyiv. good to have you with us. well, we will get to those top stories in just a moment, but first sources tell cnn former trump advisor steve bannon is expected to surrender to new york state authorities in the coming hours. bannon was indicted by the state for allegedly diverting about $1 million from a scheme that raised millions to build a border wall. trump pardoned bannon after he was charged by federal prosecutors with the same offense, but presidential pardons don t apply to state level prosecutions. a former white house attorney predicts bannon will eventually face prison time. take a listen. i think bannon s in a great deal of trouble. two of his two of the three colleagues with whom he was charged federally before trump pardoned him have pled guilty in that case and will be sentenced. the third went to trial, had a mistrial. he
just hours from now a high-stakes hoe doun in a florida courtroom. i m john berman with brianna keilar and this is a new chapter in the battle over sensitive documents recovered from mar-a-lago. the immediate issue whether a special master will be appointed to oversee the documents that were seized from donald trump s beach house by the fbi. donald trump wants a special master. the government insists there is no need for one. a judge will hear arguments at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. in the blockbuster filing from the department of justice tuesday night the doj argued that the appointment of a special master would impede the government s ongoing criminal investigation and if the special master were tasked with reviewing classified documents, would impede the intelligence community from conducting its ongoing review of the national security risk that improper storage of these highly sensitive materials may have caused. trump s lawyers made several arguments in a court filing las
very political nature in this case. i don t think we need any of those things. you have norm eisen filing a brief in the case. he s been all over anti-trump stuff forever. just play it straight. if the documents are as the government says, they re going to have to be a lot of answers provided. and here now is the aforementioned norm eisen, former house judiciary special counsel and donald trump s first impeachment trial, as you heard, norm filed a brief in opposition to trump s request for a special master. thank you for being with us. your name was invoked. your response. well, john, this is such an important case that not me, i was just one of the lawyers for the case with the distinguished group of co-counsel, but seven leading gop legal voices, from every administration prior to donald trump s going back to the reagan administration put together this brief because they wanted to say to the judge, and there is not a political word in it, it is about the law. and they w
president? there are other considerations to look at that, which is what bill barr is talking about. and even if they do indict him, then the question is can they get a jury to find him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt? so these are all issues and all questions we have no answers to at this point. and should the doj appeal that court ruling, do you think? that s a great question and they re looking at their options right now. look, there s arguments for both sides. the argument to appeal is that they have very strong legal arguments here. they made a very strong written argument opposing the special master, strong legal positions that the judge really didn t respond to in her legal ruling for the special master. so they could make a strong appeal here. however, on the other side is the fact it takes time to appeal, and they d be appealing to the 11th circuit, which is very conservative court. so they could take the time to appeal and still lose. so they could most likely here just
investigation and if the special master was tasked with reviewing classified documents would impede the intelligence community from conducting its ongoing review of the national security risk that improper storage of these highly sensitive materials may have caused. trump s lawyers made several arguments in a court filing last night, defending the presence of the documents at his beach resort. and moments ago, i spoke with trump s lead defense lawyer during his second impeachment trial, david schoen, not representing him now, but he did weigh in on the issue of a special master. listen. if the government s case is as they think it is, let s just play it straight. let a special master come in, say have at it, has to be the right person with the right security clearance, and so on, but why not let that process run out. a part of this whole scenario has to be satisfy the public that there has been a full and fair airing of everything, that all concerns have been addressed and so on. the