mission bigger than the game announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening. the aftermath of the fbi mar-a-la search took a new turn late today when a federal good evening the aftermath of the fbi mar-a-lago search took a new turn late today when a federal judge opted to hold off a decision on whether to grant a request by donald trump s team for an independent arbiter to review items seized in the fbi s search of the home at a florida court hearing today, attorneys for the former president argued a separate review would give the american people a sense of trust in the process and dismissed a doj evidence photo of recovered items as a press release. the government s lawyers rejecting the trump claim of executive privilege over the materials, noting mr. trump is no longer president and has no right to take the documents, which we may soon learn more about. the judge saying she will make public a more detailed list of the items recovered in the fbi
else might still be missing. the government says it found more than 40 folders with classified markings that were empty and roughly as many folders labeled return to staff. secretary slash military aid that were also empty. now, it could just be the contentf those folders were found elsewhere, and it could be those folders were packed up in the mad dash to move last year. we don t know. we do know that the justice department says it is still engaged in an active criminal investigation, so maybe we ll find out. and as we wait for the judge to decide on a special master let us understand what we can from this new inventory list. joining me now is nbc news justice reporter ryan riley and clint watts who s personally executed search warrants, collected evidence on the scene. and former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst barbara mcquade. all right, we re still waiting on judge canon and i want to get your sense where court went yesterday and how she might be leaning. first le
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