Trump files a response to the DOJ filing about his request for a special master

Former President Donald Trump's legal team has filed a response to the Justice Department's filing last night, which had revealed new details about the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago for classified documents.

Trump's lawyers said they wanted the special master to decide questions of executive privilege, not just the limited question of attorney-client privilege. Some legal experts have said that executive privilege exists during a dispute between different branches of government, not the same one, as in this case.

Late Tuesday, prosecutors provided a 36-page court filing, which detailed efforts to hide sensitive documents that belong to the U.S. The filing included a photo showing top-secret documents on the floor at Mar-a-Lago, the former president's Florida home, which seem to have been kept with Trump's collection of framed magazine covers.

In Wednesday's response, Trump's attorneys downplayed the Justice Department's concerns about the classified material found at Mar-a-Lago, saying in the filing that there was no "cause for alarm."

They added that the Justice Department "significantly mischaracterized" in their filing a meeting in June between prosecutors and Trump's legal team. And, they added, that without a special master, prosecutors will "impugn, leak and publicize" details of its investigation.