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him to say. right now in jackson, mississippi, residents are facing a fourth day without reliable running water. we re life on the ground. in ukraine, u.n. inspectors are at europe s largest nuclear plant under russian control amid fierce shelling in the area. we begin with what will be a crucial day in the legal battle over classified documents seized from donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. the judge will hear arguments on the former president s request for a special master who filter out privileged materials. it comes hours after his legal team filed a defiant response to a blistering justice department filing late tuesday. his team argued it should have been, quote, fully anticipated that trump would have sensitive material at his home. his lawyers describe the documents as, quote, his own presidential records. even though the law says they belong to the government. trump s team also argued a special master to review the documents is needed because, quote, left ....
Presidential records act. but leaving that aside, other interesting things they said in this document, we should give them their say, they are saying, the doj is accusing trump lawyer of misleading the justice department about about the extent to which classified documents were there. trump s lawyers are saying the doj significantly mischaracterized its description of a june 3rd meeting when a top lawyer from the do judge. and some fbi agents came down to mar-a-lago, served a grand jury subpoena and then inspected the storage room where most of these it documents were stored. they said they were not allowed to open the boxes. trump s lawyers are not being specific but essentially they re accuing the justice department of lying. ken, before we get to joyce on this, what can we expect from today s hearing? it s hard to know the federal judge there s a lot of different ways she could go here. if she decides to rule today, we could learn whether there will be a special master appoint ....
His lawyers describe the documents as, quote, his own presidential records. even though the law says they belong to the government. trump s team also argued a special master to review the documents is needed because, quote, left unchecked, the doj will impugn, leak aspects of their investigation with no recourse for movant but to somehow trust no one. the justice department says a special master is unneeded because it would impede the ongoing criminal investigation as well as the intelligence community s assessment. the department said it had evidence of an effort to obstruct the investigation with documents likely concealed or removed before the search took place. with us now to talk about all of this, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken da dilanian and vaughn hilliard, ....
Kept presidential papers at mar-a-lago, and those are confessions he will never be able to roll back. we know he had a hard time building his legal team. ken dilanian, vaughn hilliard, joyce vance, thank you. with us is california congressman ro khana. congressman, good morning. thanks for joining us. good morning. i want to bring you some news we have, because the oversight committee tweeted out it s reached an agreement with former president trump and accounting for usa to turn over his financial records to the committee. what more can you tell us? this is long overdue. we ve been working on this for a number of years. those documents are important because, as you remember, michael cohen had testified before our committee that there could have been financial fraud that the president had certain conflicts of interest. we ve never been able to significantly investigate that because the president s own accountants refused to hand over those documents. now the president is sayi ....
Taking on the legal arguments and really doing a lot of damage to the trump position that he needed a special master to review in this case. rather than responding in a thoughtful, responsible way to those arguments, most of this reply brief is consumed with political rhetoric. there s very little rationale at the end of the day for the judge to use a special master here. ken s point that special masters are used in settings where lawyer s offices are searched and there s a lot of attorney/client material that relates to third-parties that isn t involved in the investigation doj is conducting, that s when you see special masters used. the whole point of getting a search warrant is so you can look through the materials you acquire for evidence that supports or either disproves the case you re working on. so, in essence what the trump lawyers are complaining about here is just the normal course of business. vaughn, obviously, we talked ....