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this is don lemon tonight, and we ve got news on two big stories tonight. we re live here at buckingham palace in london home to the new monarch, king charles iii. and there s news moments ago back home on the mar-a-lago investigation. they ve submitted their proposals to a federal judge for who should serve as special master to review materials from mar-a-lago and how the process should work. it is the latest legal turn in the criminal investigation into trump s potential mishandling of documents. so i want to bring in now cnn senior justice kraunlt evan perez, and senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, laura coates. welcome back to the program, both of you. evan, you just received these documents. tell us more you re learning. they have nominated both sides who they think should be special master, and there s also other details in there. right, don. they ve submitted two names each. obviously they couldn t agree who should be the special master. the ju ....
Senior justice kraunlt evan perez, and senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, laura coates. welcome back to the program, both of you. evan, you just received these documents. tell us more you re learning. they have nominated both sides who they think should be special master, and there s also other details in there. right, don. they ve submitted two names each. obviously they couldn t agree who should be the special master. the judge is going to have to decide that. i ll come back to those names in a minute, but there s major disagreement obviously which is not surprising between the two sides. the government says the special master should not be able to look at classified documents, should not be able to decide what is executive privilege and what isn t. of course the trump team says that is the whole point of this and of course this is what the special master should be able to do to review all the documents, more than 1,000 pages, more than 100 documents that are class ....
Play out. that s right, don. the justice department is looking to appeal on thursday if they don t get this judge to pause or at least put aside her ruling from last week, which prevented the justice department from even being able to and the fbi from even being able to look at the 100 documents that i think there s more than 100 documents that are classified that the justice department, the fbi says they need to keep investigating. they need to know, you know, those documents that had the folders, the pore more than four dozen folders that were labeled classified but had no documents in them. they re trying to figure what happened to those documents, was something exposed? do they need to take mitigation measures to protect sources and methods? all those things need to happen and are not happening. right now they re on hold because that judge issued that order last week. so they re asking her to put that aside, and she s going to take a look at that in the next few days. all r ....