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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 ....
And co-host of sisters podcast and msnbc legal analyst. ken, first to you, what did trump s team have to say last night? let s address the excerpt where they said it would be understandable there would be sensitive material in his documents. this is a stark contrast we ve heard from trump and his allies when trump said, i declassified thesis documents. everything i took out of the white house was presumptively declassified under the authority of my president. there s no evidence that happened. it s interesting to me that there is no mention of that in this document whatsoever. that is not the argument trump s lawyers are making here. on the con temporary, what they re saying is it s perfectly normal there would be highly sensitive documents in presidential records. this was just a dispute between trump and the archives of record and you, doj, are trying to criminalize it. that s a significant misunderstanding of the ....
And why? joining us now is phillip shaynin, former new york times reporter and author of the history of the kennedy assassination. great to have you back with us again. thank you. i felt like you spoke with unusual clarity last night in terms of telling us what to expect about what might go wrong today. i still did not anticipate that what might go wrong today is that we wouldn t get anything until 7:30 and then it would be only a little portion of the documents. do you have any sense of what went wrong today? what a mess. this is the worst possible scenario. apparently there really has been a mess at the white house for the last couple of weeks. even as president trump was tweeting out these assurances to the american people that he was going to open up this vast library of secret documents, there was these wild negotiations going on within the administration, the cia and the fbi and apparently the state department, going to the white house saying, no, no, no, you can t rele ....
Reporter and author of the history of the kennedy assassination. great to have you back with us again. thank you. i felt like you spoke with unusual clarity last night in terms of telling us what to expect about what might go wrong today. i still did not anticipate that what might go wrong today is that we wouldn t get anything until 7:30 and then it would be only a little portion of the documents. do you have any sense of what went wrong today? what a mess. this is the worst possible scenario. apparently there really has been a mess at the white house for the last couple of weeks. even as president trump was tweeting out these assurances to the american people that he was going to open up this vast library of secret documents, there was these wild negotiations going on within the administration, the cia and the fbi and apparently the state department, going to the white house saying, no, no, no, you can t release thesis documents it appears nobody told that to ....