The Department Reports it has now recovered more than 320 classified documents from mara lago. Prosecutors essay some documents were likely concealed or removed from storage in an effort to obstruct their investigation. The court filing casts serious doubt on a statement by trumps attorneys that all classified material had been returned. The Justice Department also argues that trump lacked legal standing to request a Special Master, since the documents belonged to the government, not to him. The court filing came with this photo, showing documents taken by the fbi, from a container in trumps office. More now from cnns sarah murray. Reporter the Justice Department weighs in with its side of the story of what happened in the runup and aftermath of the search at mar alago. This is all a part of the Court Battle Playing Out over whether there should be a Special Master, an independent third party appointed to review the documents that the fbi sees when they searched maralago. The trump team has argued that they want this Special Master, the Justice Department, in a latenight filing so they did not believe it was necessary, saying the government has already completed work in going through these documents and has segregated attorneyclient privilege information. They also say that donald trump does not have standing to intervene in this. These are not his documents, these are property of the government. They also laid out clear rebuttal to what the trump team has been saying. The trump team has been saying the former president was cooperative with the Justice Department, they suggested the search at maralago was over, the top in this filing, the Justice Department lays out what they found in this search. They say there were over 100 unique documents with Classified Markings. This is important, because they say this is twice as many documents as what the trump team produced. They had an opportunity and he said they handed over everything, as a result of this subpoena 100 documents with Classified Markings but they also included a photo that showed the cover sheets, classification with a sample of what they found, in this filing they also said there were documents that were likely concealed and removed from mar alago, from the storage room there, in an attempt to obstruct the Justice Departments investigation. This court fight is going to continue. Donald trumps side has until wednesday evening to respond, and there will be a hearing in this matter on thursday. Sarah murray, cnn, washington. Joining me now from washington, former u. S. Federal prosecutor and host of the podcast that said, with Michael Zeldin is Michael Zeldin himself the good to have you with us. Thank you for having me. Just a short time ago, the department of justice filed its 40 page response opposing Donald Trumps plea for a Special Master to review that classified information, those documents seized from his mara lago home. The doj essentially saying that review has already been done. So it will be unnecessary to do it again. What is your response to this, and what decision do you think the judge will likely make on thursday . I agree with the Justice Department. A Special Master is not needed in this case, even if the review had not been done, Special Masters typically are appointed when there is a seizure from an attorneys office, so they can check attorneyclient privilege issues but that was not the case here. And additionally, the search has been completed, pursuant to the procedures that the judge who issued the Search Warrant laid out. So, they have a team that reviewed all these documents, called out the Executive Privilege or Attorney Client privilege stuff, put it in one basket, and then proceeded to give, or wants to give, the other documents to the review team so they can get going with the criminal investigation and National Security review. I think the Justice Department has it correct, here, and i dont think there is a good response coming from the trump team. Michael, the doj court filing also states there is evidence that government records will are more likely concealed or removed from mara lago storage room, to obstruct the investigation. What are the legal ramifications of this . This is the most brutal part of the Justice Department filing for trump and his attorneys. Because, they represented to the Justice Department, in response to a Grand Jury Subpoena earlier in the process, in june, that they had done incompetence of search, and there was nothing else found other than the documents they turned over. The Justice Department got Additional Information from Confidential Sources that there was actually additional stuff they got the Search Warrant, and they found not only the stuff in the Storage Facility that they said was comprehensively, previously searched, but they also found stuff in Donald Trumps personal office, giving the Justice Department reason to argue that not only was it untrue that they did a conference of search, but true that they moved stuff from the Storage Locker to another location to obstruct the investigation. Very telling, very damaging legally from a pr matter it is hard to defend. The doj also says the august search of maralago casts serious doubt on the statement made by trump lawyers, as classified material had already been returned for the top Justice Department official contends the federal investigators were limited in what they could look through, when visiting the resort, in june, contrary to the trump teams narrative of total cooperation. What are the possible legal copper consequences of that . Two statutes are in play, here. One is obstruction of justice. The other is criminal concealment of documents. The Justice Department filing raises the very clear possibility that there is both an obstruction charge, and a criminal concealment charge, waiting for somebody. Who that is, we are not sure, because we do not know who gave what orders to hide these documents, but, that surely is, first and foremost, the Justice Departments interest. Michael, the doj filing also includes a damning photographic evidence of topsecret and secret documents that the fbi took from maralago. Perhaps we can bring that up. What did you think, when you saw this image . Just extraordinary but of course, we dont know whether that is how they found the documents, all over the floor, they may have laid them out but we dont know that, do we . No, but the important part is that these documents in big letters said topsecret, classified, and everyone knows who has worked with the government, what precautions need to be taken around those documents. Also, interestingly, in the doj filing, they point out that which was requested was not for classified document, per se, but documents that had Classified Markings on them, so, trumps argument that he declassified is irrelevant in the face of the Search Warrant, or Grand Jury Subpoena which says give us all the documents that are marked as classified, irrespective of whether they are classified now were not. So again, trumps response to the doj is not really likely to be very compelling to the judge, and i think that she should, now, at this point, not appointed the Special Master, and let the Justice Department go forward with the instigation and National Security risk assessment. Why do you think it took trumps legal team so long to request that a Special Master be appointed . Is this more about delaying tactics, buying time as the doj appears to be saying . Because on the other side of this, trump team, and his allies keep saying, well, this is political. This is right near the november midterms. But, this could have been resolved months ago, couldnt it . If the trump team had wanted to. Absolutely. This case is the creation of donald trump and company. They did not have to take these documents with them, and secondly, when requested of them, they could have given them all back and said we are very sorry, we took them inadvertently, and this would have been all done. But, they did not they held onto these documents, they appear to have hidden these documents, The Big Question now is, why . What was it that was behind all of this secrecy and concealment and obstruction . What is it that was in these documents that they were trying to cover up, in some sense, or potential interest to seriously, use for other purposes . We certainly want that question answered. In the meantime, donald trump has expanded his legal team, and the former Florida Solicitor General chris kies, who is also the former adviser to governor ron desantis. Does this signal just how concerned trump must be about being indicted in this maralago probe, do you think . I would think so. You asked the question, previously, why did it take so long to file this motion for a Special Master. The answer is, i think his counsel were not very experienced. Now, i think they realize that they need more experienced counsel, but it is negative Solicitor General for the state of florida is actually what they need but i think they need experienced National Security former federal prosecutors with topsecret clearances to start working on this case. I think that his legal team at the moment is not up to the standard that the Justice Department legal team is. Michael, always great to get your legal analysis, particularly on a day like this. Many thanks. Thank you. U. S. President joe biden laid out his plan to increase funding for police during a fiery speech embezzling you on tuesday. 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For more on this i would like to bring in daniel, he joins us from los angeles where he is a professor of legal science at ucla. He is also the author of the return, russias journey from gorbachev to medvedev. Thank you for being with us. Sure. As the last soviet union leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who oversaw the end of the cold war. While he charmed americans, there were mixed feelings for him back home, werent there . How located is his legacy inside russia . If you think about it, his achievements in russia were all negative, or they were perceived that way. He is a paradoxical figure because as you said, he is widely admired in the west, but at home, pretty much everything that he tried to do failed. He wanted to revise communism. It died on his watch. He wanted to revitalize the soviet economy, it collapsed. He wanted to maintain the integrity of the soviet state, and split up into 15 separate republics. So, in almost all respects, he is viewed by russians as having introduced catastrophe, rather than improving their lives. I think that is unfortunately his legacy. On the other hand, from the outside, one can see that by retreating before the historical changes that were unfolding, by accepting the end of soviet communism and