i m not persuaded by that in the papers. it is not a question about access to the papers but who is the repository of the papers. past presidents want access to their papers to write memoirs but that doesn t answer the question of who holds them. traditionally it is the archives will hold them and the presidential library then give a copy to the president so he or she can access them. there is no right to keep them in the house. you have access under the safety and control of the archives. now the justice department has said one of the former president s choices for special master talking about judge raymond deery is appropriate. does that make judge deery the odds on favorite to get picked here? how could this play out? the judge clearly has a discretion to pick whoever she wants. i think it would make sense to pick judge deery at this point. i don t think it was so much of an olive branch the justice department was extending by acknowledging judge deery s
acceptability. judge deery is a well respected judge in the eastern district of new york and brooklyn, well respected for decades. and he served on the foreign intelligence surveillance court. the court that handles fisa applications and is fully qualified to review classified information and handle it. so he is actually a good choice. i think the only reason the justice department didn t agree immediately is because the trump people voted the name six hours before the filing deadline and hasn t run it up to the flag pole to the department of justice tlfrjts are still serious issues to be worked out when it comes to the special master. what do you see as the big ones? you are exactly right. there are still a lot of issues to be resolved. one of the most important legal issues is the one that we ve talked about on the show before, does president trump as the
of candidates to serve as a court appointed third party or special master to examine documents seized during the fbi search of mar-a-lago. the doj is suggesting two former federal district judges. barbara jones is a clinton appointee and thomas griffith who is a george w. bush appointee. the trump legal team is suggesting retired federal district court judge and reagan appointee raymond deery. the other, a former deputy attorney general from the state of florida, paul huck jr. this all comes as the doj gauff judge eileen cannon to give them access to the materials seized. otherwise the doj says they plan to appeal to a higher court in the interest of national security. meanwhile, saturday former fbi official and frequent trump critic floated a theory on twitter that the former president may have transferred
not a former judge, his wife was appointed to the 11th circuit by president trump, the circuit that would hear any appeal in this case, so a lot of legal experts are saying he has a conflict of interest, but the other person put forward by the trump side, raymond deery, some are saying they should take that name. he s a respected former federal judge in new york. you re absolutely right. at the end of the day, the special master situation could become moot because what the justice department made clear is what they care about here are the hundred classified documents they seized at mar-a-lago. they disagree with the special master idea, but they re willing to allow a special master to review the thousands of other documents seized, including trump s health records and tax records, but they argue that these 100 classified documents should not be viewed by a special master. they re already in a special room right now, and they re saying that it s a matter of national security that they n