you too. thanks to you at home for being here. we have breaking news tonight, in the investigation into trump s handling of top secret classified government records that wound up at the florida beach club. and the special stay of the special master ruling, judge cannon ruled that she will appoint a special master, an independent third party to review the 11,000 seized records that the fbi retrieved from trump s lome 40 days ago, and in response, the justice department be grudgingly said okay, go ahead and appoint the special master but please exclude the roughly 100 classified documents seized from mar-a-lago because we need to continue the criminal investigation of the classified documents due to special national security interests. also aal second intelligence assessment into the potential risks and harms that may have been caused byat having those t secret classified documents hanging out at trump s club, the justice department argued that thatst assessment could not c
and ben rhodes, former national deputy security adviser for the obama administration and msnbcra analyst. thanksnd for being here on shor noticeng in the middle of a breaking news hurricane here. first, i want to get your thoughts on the disdain with which this judge is treating the national security community, the justice department, questioning whether or not thesede records e even classified again, as a reminder, washington post reporting on september 6th that there are documents describing a foreign government s military defensesnt including nuclear capabilities, in theng tranche documents that ended up in the broom closet down at mar-a-lago. what did you make d of that language? and what did you make of her posture as it relates to national security? i mean i think it is totally reckless, a little bit insane, alex, and we see these filings, they have the s look of legal documents that beestows a legitimacy on them. but this makes no sense and this is a m judge that has no back
trump will use to be his lawyer in this instance, and christina bobb, or it could be rudy giuliani, these people will have access to the crown jewels of our classified intelligence information. and as we ve heard, there is somee pretty explosive stuff i here, relating to the national defense. having that information in the hands of people who are not reliable government answers, is definitely a risk to national security. the other piece of this is the time line. the government has wanted to wrap this up pretty expeditiously. we are now given an extended deadline here from judge cannon to november 30th but there is kind of anud appeals process fo every batch of documents that either side takes issue with, in terms of classification. could this slide into next year, barb? i m afraid it could. now one thing she did say is she asked tosa prioritize the 100 o so classified documents. so he will look at those, make a decision, and turn them over.
you too. thanks to you at home for being here. we have breaking news tonight, in the investigation into trump s handling of top secret classified government records that wound up at the florida beach club. and the special stay of the special master ruling, judge cannon ruled that she will appoint a special master, an independent third party to review the 11,000 seized records that the fbi retrieved from trump s lome 40 days ago, and in response, the justice department be grudgingly said okay, go ahead and appoint the special master but please exclude the roughly 100 classified documents seized from mar-a-lago because we need to continue the criminal investigation of the classified documents due to special national security interests. also aal second intelligence assessment into the potential risks and harms that may have been caused byat having those t secret classified documents hanging out at trump s club, the justice department argued that
and that is treating him differently thanan any other litigant gets treated so i think for institutional reasons, the justice department has to appea, this order. and i think withpe regards to ts risk assessment of the intelligence community, that can go forward now and she has given them ard little more leeway to include the fbi in it. which is essential. because the cia cannot conduct investigations on u.s. soil. and the important distinction. the other thing that stood out to me is the notion that trump s team can see everything that wah seized including classified materials.ie for seized materials, make available for inspection by plaintiff s counsel with controlled accessif positions, including hearing requirements and under the supervision of the special master, the documents marked as classified and as papers attached to such documents. is thatd to problematic? it is, alex, the idea of classified documents is only those with a need to know within the intelligence community s