just hours from now a high-stakes hoe doun in a florida courtroom. i m john berman with brianna keilar and this is a new chapter in the battle over sensitive documents recovered from mar-a-lago. the immediate issue whether a special master will be appointed to oversee the documents that were seized from donald trump s beach house by the fbi. donald trump wants a special master. the government insists there is no need for one. a judge will hear arguments at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. in the blockbuster filing from the department of justice tuesday night the doj argued that the appointment of a special master would impede the government s ongoing criminal investigation and if the special master were tasked with reviewing classified documents, would impede the intelligence community from conducting its ongoing review of the national security risk that improper storage of these highly sensitive materials may have caused. trump s lawyers made several arguments in a court filing las
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 what the
book. they called the fbi s search of mar-a-lago suspect. the trump lawyers showed the lawyers from the department of justice, because trump is no longer president he had no right to take those documents. they also defended their search as being completely lawful. now, one of trump s lawyers was saying they should have a special master to try to restore order and public trust and to lower the temperature in the nation to kind of take some of this heat off. now, the judge had asked questions of both sides and asked them what would a special master do at this point since the government had a filter team go through this, but she also said it is not entirely settled law that a former president can t claim privilege after leaving office. she kind of left it as an open question. she did previously say she was leaning toward appointing a special master. this was the first time we heard from both sides in court staking out their positions. we learned more information there were about
hard virtual learning was, math and reading scores plummeting to their lowest levels in decades. welcome to the lead. i m kaitlan collins in for jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and the florida courtroom showdown unfold thing afternoon over the classified documents found at trump s mar-a-lago home. the hearing ended a little over an hour ago, with no immediate decision from the judge on whether or not to appoint a special master in the case. a special master would be a third party attorney put in charge of reviewing the evidence seized from trump s florida home, his newest lawyer in his first appearance as part of the legal team today argued a special master is needed to restore order and lower the temperature in the nation. and another trump attorney compared the battle over the classified documents to a dispute over an overdue library book. let s get straight to our reporter in florida. tell us more about what arguments these lawyers were making, but a
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