pages that they usually have in the southern district of florida tell us the justice department believes they need to talk, they need to say some more about what the former president was alleging in his lawsuit against the government asking for the special master. there are a lot of things that the former president said in that filing, obviously a lot of it are his grievances about how the fbi in the justice department are biased against him. but some of it was about how cooperative he has been with this effort to get these documents back. so, i think you re gonna hear a little bit more about that in this filing. there is a lot of narrative that we still do not know about, beginning obviously in 2021 when the national archives first approached the trump team and ask them to please return these documents that belong to you and me and all americans. when you re looking for, george? well, i m going to be interested to see if they do contain more of a factual narrative that w
those documents. a response from the doj for trump s request for a special master. we have the information. the filing is. and we re gonna get straight to cnn s sara murray in washington d.c., with the very latest. sarah, do we know what it is or are we just hearing that it has dropped? it has dropped. it s before midnight, so you re welcome for that, i guess, thank the justice department. the team and i are still going through it. this of course is the filing. the justice department responding to donald trump s response demand for a special master. he had concerns about privilege material. he had concerns that some type of justice department had gone over the top, trump had insisted in his motion that he had been very cooperative with the justice department, and what we are seeing here is a lengthy response from the justice department, which we
it was the idea that we had run out of time, that he the judge had granted it within essentially hours of getting the request. that, i think, is a counter narrative established by trump supporters, that if this were a big deal, why did it take so long? what we are seeing is the doj recognized what a big idea was, was trying to get the trump people to recognize that, and then had to go to a court to do that, to finally get this information. that, i think, a part of where this motion is doing is answering some of the criticisms you are hearing by trump supporters. at the same time, i have to say, the one line that everyone should remember is, doj specifically says, these are not his documents, period. they re just not his. why are we even having this discussion? these are not donald trump s documents. that is why at the very and
that the president united states interests in getting these documents and not giving them back to trump, they make that clear in the filing, that he has no claim to them, no right to them, and even if there is some arguable privilege that they are talking about, that it is overwhelmed by the national security implications of giving anything or any legal injunction to the trump people, is because right now that disclosure, that national security information and it s quantity, which we didn t have a good sense of before, is a present challenge for the united states interests and our national security. we have to remember this is not just a legal case, it has to do with our intelligence agencies when we try to figure out what the heck was donald trump doing with them and water the ongoing challenges to human intelligence sources, programs, intelligence efforts, and also our allies who are looking at
there is no basis for him to keep documents that belong to the executive from the executive branch. yeah, again, we are awaiting those documents, the response from the justice department, trump s team s request for a special master. everyone is looking down at their devices, trying to refresh them to see if it comes in. it will come in at any moment. in the meantime, let me bring in elliott. elliott, if this trump appointed judge does grant a special master, what happens next? how will this person be chosen, and how long could it take to go through all the documents? look, picking up on georgia s point, the problem is we do not know, because the scenario has never come up before, right? special master s are incredibly common in cases where you have attorney client privilege. it s sort of, is this privilege that exist between everyone who has ever had an attorney, right, the things you say to your attorney. it s never really been a scenario in american history where a president soug