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rejecting a special master. a filing that included this, a striking photo of highly classified documents found at mar-a-lago. among trump s arguments, an admission that there were classified documents there. but that was to be expected among presidential records. no big deal. and should not have triggered an fbi search. joining us now, legal analyst loni coombs. so nice to see you. thanks for getting up our staying up late for us. so lawyers for the former president, they are,ing that it is the justice department that is unchecked and that these highly classified documents stashed away at the president s resort are no big deal? yeah, this is a really interesting reply brief. it was supposed to be a reply to all of the very strong arguments that were made by the department of justice in their response to this request for a special master. but instead it really read more like a pr statement, you know, going after the fbi and the doj as usual saying that they are uncheck ....
department saying it is already parsed through those documents, which is what is known as a filter team to look for any privileged communications. trump s lawyers acknowledged that classified material was found at mar-a-lago, but argued that should not have been a cause for alarm and should never have led to the search of trump s home. trump s lawyers insisted the national archives should have expected to find classified material because they were presidential records. let s begin this morning with cnn correspondent kara scannell. you re there, you re waiting for this hearing to dbegin. what can you tell us about the filing that came in last night right before the deadline? their main arguments. and notefably what they didn t y what they didn t argue. reporter: that s right, poppy. last night the trump team submitted their filing, 19-page filing, asking the judge to appoint a special master. that s this third party person to review the materials that were seized a ....
shouldn t have triggered an fbi search. let s go the evan perez this morning. good morning, erica. the trump team largely ignores a lot of the allegations that the justice department made in its bombshell filing a couple nights ago. they are saying it should not have been a surprise that there were classified documents found at mar-a-lago. they were considered personal and presidential records. i will read you part of what they say in the court fueliling. that the records contain sensitive information should never have been cause for alarm. they re saying that the justice department cannot be trusted to just look through the documents and sort out what may be presidential privilege, executive privilege, or at attorney/client privilege. they want to appoint a special master to look at the documents and set aside the things that may be considered privileged. so, we expect that this judge is going to take a look at this filing and really maybe ask some questions about wh ....
the indelible detail from extraordinary filing is this image. you have probably seen it, a picture were 10,000 words. they were being told overturned documents with classification markings. and you know, that picture speaks a thousand words, right? speak with the picture is the crime. those are top-secret. this is a crime. i don t care where these were found, whoever owns that isles committed a crime by having t them. todd: marianne rafferty with the latest details, rep mike marianne. refusing to back down nine claims documents at his home in the federal judge set to hear a a motion to oversee the ongoing investigation as the doj filing seeks to take over all aspects of the case. trump legal team firing back. the united states office with extraordinary document with the court suggesting the doj and the doj alone should be entrusted with the responsibility of evaluating unjustified pursuit of criminalizing a former presidents possession of personal and presiden ....
here s what i have to say. yes. since donald trump made his way into the political scene i m always waiting for something. i was waiting for the night of the grab them by the you know what tape. waiting, wait, waiting to see if he had covid. now we re waiting for these documents, redacted. what are we going to learn? you re a former federal prosecutor. what are we going to learn from a bunch of black out spaces? for some they ll look at it as an ink blot test. in reality, you can learn a lot from what is excluded and not said. all of this cumulatively had a federal magistrate judge say, you can go and you can search and execute a search warrant that s a high bar. that s a high bar. they re probably overly inclusive. we don t have everything buck what we do know is a search was executed. they took boxes from that particular estate. we didn t hear a big argument in the court from trump s lawyers as to pleas no, stop. which was surprising in and of itself. ho ....