Special master to review classified docs from Trump’s Mar-A-Lago
The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ari Melburgh with you here on the beat with Ari Melbaugh. This is a live Labor Day edition. |
| 0:04.6 | So what we were just seeing there, going into the hour was the president speaking about labor, saying unions are more popular than ever as he spoke to that labor crowd. |
| 0:14.6 | Now, I could tell you later today, in this Labor Day edition of the beat, we actually have more on what the president is doing and pushing. |
| 0:20.4 | So having heard from him live, we'll bring you that soon. But the big, larger breaking news |
| 0:26.1 | story on the holiday is a new ruling coming out of Florida, a judge granting a request that |
| 0:32.1 | Donald Trump made for a different type of review of those documents that the DOJ says that he |
| 0:37.3 | was holding illegally for a long time, a special master to do the review. |
| 0:42.1 | Now, if you watch the beat or keep an eye on this, you may recall that we heard from attorney John Sale, who rejected a request to represent Trump in this very matter. |
| 0:50.7 | And before any such request was ever made, he actually said here on MSNBC that his idea |
| 0:55.6 | would have been to request a special master. This was days before Trump first made that legal |
| 1:01.2 | request. |
| 1:04.3 | They're using a filter team, the government, in order to review these documents for privilege, |
| 1:09.8 | various privileges, attorney-client privilege, |
| 1:12.1 | the deliberative privilege, the deliberative process privilege. |
| 1:15.2 | Well, I would immediately have gone to court and ask for the appointment of a special master. |
| 1:19.4 | I would not trust the government to be doing that. |
| 1:22.5 | Now, legally, as we discussed that day in an ensuing coverage, that is an option afforded to someone in this type of situation. |
| 1:31.3 | It's not a substantive win when you get a special master. |
| 1:34.3 | It doesn't mean that you, for example, legally held the documents or that you're cleared of the criminal investigation, but it does afford this extra layer of review. |
| 1:43.3 | Now, as Mr. Sale referenced, and as we discussed in our coverage, that's a review you typically want to request at the beginning, not after a bunch of the review has occurred, but this will go forward. |
| 1:54.4 | It will now be until Friday that a proposed list of special master candidates can be submitted. |
| 2:02.7 | Meanwhile, you have the Attorney General looking at these open probes, while there is also, in case you heard about it, midterm |
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