positions that donald trump team has taken. so this was to my mind a big misstep because it s highly unlikely they re going to lose in any significant way in court on this whole special master issue which is really a speed bump at most and instead we really learned a lot of facts that refute the donald trump spin. all right then. we re going to leave it there. andrew weissman, chuck rosenberg, my goodness, who else is with us, matt miller, jeff mason and ryan riley, it is almost 1:00 a.m. in the morning. thank you all for joining us, for sticking around for this hour, for sharing your expertise. we needed it now. thank you for staying up and watching our special coverage that s going to continue right after this break. e that s going to continue right after this break so you can find your color. colors. choices. happiness. away.
indictment. of course i think others will argue these things are not apples or apples at all. what i suspect is where you ll see some of the comments from trump world as part of that damage control. chuck, forget team trump figuring out how they do protect him and figure out their next communication tonight, don t an awful lot of him, especially their lawyers need to worry about their own hides tonight. i m pretty sure months ago some of his lawyers signed off on what they were sending back to the government saying we re clean. we have nothing here. aren t they worried they could be on the hook. ldpotentially, yes. this goes back to matt miller s really important point about obstruction. so if a lawyer told the united states department of justice that there s nothing else here, there are no classified documents, there s nothing pursuant to the presidential records act, you have everything. we turned it over and that s not true, the next question is why
prove intent. my bad, i realize i have a whole bunch of classified information in my basement. here you go. i don t want it. it s yours. you should have it back. to matt s point, that s not really a prosecutable case anymore. when you culie, when you obfusce and mislead the fbi about what it is you have, that s obstruction and helps to establish intent which is the hardest thing to prove in these types oft cases. so, matt, i understand why he was our head communicator. he s really good at this. matt, then how would trump make the argument, if he chose to hide the boxes, i didn t see it, it was reported a couple weeks ago, that he might not have read every word, every letter in those hundred documents seized. but trump already rifled through them. he knew what he had. he knew what was there. and as a former president of the united states of america, he
years after the end of the administration. so this is really a three-part story now at this point. it s after a year of the national archives trying to get these documents. they got those they got that initial set of 15 documents that included 14 documents that had classified information in them in january and then in june, more classified documents and then finally when they searched the place they found a boat load more classified documents that donald trump wasn t supposed to have. again, setting aside the fact that he wasn t supposed to have any of these government records under the presidential records act, stephanie. matt, we keep talking about, oh, classified documents. but we don t actually know what those documents are. talk to us about the national without knowing the specific content, help us understand the type of documents they would be, what kind of national risks does it pose for us, national security risks, i mean. well, it could be a number of things. look at w
baked, for a special master. during those 14 days, the government finished the review. they did exactly what they told the federal judge they were going to do, and they did exactly what he approves of them doing. they finished. and so the very practical thing that the government is now saying, in response to this motion to appoint a special master is unnecessary. we told the judge what we are going to, do we did, and were down. we met our obligations, fully. we have a very small subset of privileged documents, and we set them aside. the investigation is important for the reason that matt miller was just describing, and it needs to move forward. so let s go, your honor. there s no need to appoint a special master at this point, we did everything we said we would, we did it properly