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
elie, you predicted it could go this way. the judge said i ll get to it later. welcome to federal courts where judges have life tenure and do whatever they want whenever they want. the judge will hear arguments and take whatever time she wants to issue a written ruling. it could come within an hour, later today, tonight, tomorrow, any day, weekend, labor day, next week, you name it. this is the mercy that litigants are at in front of federal judges. she s heard the argument, has the briefs, and now we await the ruling. i want you to weigh in on that gem that kara reported that the trump legal team says these documents in the possession of the former president were akin to an overdue library book. your view on that. yeah. i can t believe they re making that assertion. these are government records with highly classified information. it is imperative as the justice department said that the intelligence community will allowed to review these records not only for classification review
the top-secret, the secret compartmented information is the nation s biggest secrets. tell us what s happening, because you know, inside the intelligence community today to try to figure out what damage if any has been caused by these having been unsecured for the past year and a half. yeah. well, undoubtedly there s three different reviews going on in the intelligence community right now. the most important one which cnn has reported is what i call risk mitigation efforts, looking quickly at the documents, do we have sources exposed, collection methods exposed, and if so, do we need to think about pulling that source back, getting them out of the country, or having them stand down for a while. the same for collection platforms. do we take them down for a while. that s the most important thing. there s a classification review going on verifying the documents are currently properly classified. that s important if charges are brought.
hold of this city of mariupol? a couple of things to think about. the russians say they re going to honor this type of movement and this consideration, this humanitarian consideration. they, the russians don t even treat their own soldiers that have been killed in combat or have been wounded humanely. why should we begin to believe that they re going to do the same? in other words, the guard of the ukrainians must remain up, they must put in place those risk mitigation efforts so they can accomplish these various tasks that they re trying to accomplish. the pace to the second part of the question, the pace of operations in ukraine is not going to be sustained at this level beyond a couple of months. specifically in mariupol, the only thing that indiscriminate from the sea by are artillery fire an rockets by the russians. that can be sustained for a couple more days.
many of us were dedicated to anything in lib yo both home and abroad. to my colleagues that served with me in the aftermath of this attack you have your country s sin sears thanks and prayers. let me say something about the evening of september 11th. i have not sign an attack of such ferocity and intensity previously in libya nor with my time in the diplomatic security service. i m concerned this attack signals a new security reality just as the 1983 beirut marine barracks bombings did for the marines, the 1998 east africa embassy bombings did for the state dipt and 9/11 did for our entire country. however we must remember that it is critical that we balance our risk mitigation efforts with the needs of our diplomats to do their jobs. the answer can not be to operate from a bunker.