reporter ryan riley and kelly o donnell. i m andrea mitchell in washington. ryan, can you get us up to speed on the latest? in my read of this, she is also enjoining the government from using the seized materials for investigative purposes, but is not preventing the director of national intelligence from proceeding with the damage assessment, correct? that s right. it s a pretty devastating ruling for the government. the biggest question here was whether or not the special master was going to have authority over the executive privilege claims. that was really the biggest issue. if this was solely limited to attorney/client privilege, i don t think we d see as much strong opposition necessarily from doj. it would have been something they could have potentially lived with, because it s such a limited amount of the materials. but when you get into these questions of executive privilege, this really blows up the investigation and could really be a major setback to the investiga
head to pittsburgh this afternoon, part of his labor day campaign blitz with just a few months ahead of the november midterms. joining me now for more on the breaking news, ryan riley, kelly o donnell, and joining us david henderson, as well. ryan, first to you. you ve now had an hour you have given him an hour to look through this. let s talk about what you have learned as we ve all been speed reading this report of this judge s order which came out about an hour ago. ryan? that s right. one of the citations here is they mentioned rudy giuliani as a special master and the idea of having someone look over the questions of executive privilege, and that was back in april of 2021. but that was a much more sort of limited circumstance, because that was first of all, giuliani wasn t an attorney, so looking over his materials was much more complex, because he had to protect all the materials of talking with his client, so the fbi search this could be a particularly cumberso