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Today's show, DOJ offers Judge Cannon a new deal. We have the details.

It's your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

As expected, the Department of Justice said on Thursday that it'll move forward with an appeal

of Judge Eileen Cannon's recent decision, halting DOJ's criminal investigation and appointing a

special master. But in the meantime, the government tried a new approach to convince Cannon

to rethink her recent decision, at least when it comes

to the key documents seized from Mar-a-Lago by the FBI.

Here's a hypothetical scenario.

Imagine that someone had allegedly stolen a sack of diamonds from a jewelry shop and then

stored the gems in junk drawers around their house.

The cops raid the place, take away everything in the drawers

where they find stolen diamonds, and spend two weeks separating them from the junk. Then a

judge comes along and says that the big issue in the case isn't the stolen diamonds, but that

the cops still have some of the alleged thief's personal belongings. She halts the

heist investigation until an outside expert can sort the gems from the junk.

The government thinks the judge's decision is absurd.

No other suspect has received the special treatment, but they offered the judge a compromise,

let us keep all of the diamonds, and will return all of the alleged thieves of junk, even

a few cheap watches that they think he might have swiped from the store.

In a 21-page filing yesterday, that is essentially the deal the DOJ offered cannon.

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