Prosecutors in the classified documents case want Trump and his lawyers only to work with and talk about classified details in his case inside a specially protected room called a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility or SCIF . But the DOJ said on Thursday that Trumps team expressed concerns regarding the inconvenience posed by this limitation and requested that Defendant Trump be permitted to discuss classified information with his counsel in his office at MaraLago and possibly Bedminster . The government is not aware of any case in which a defendant has been permitted to . discussed classified information in a private residence and such exceptional treatment would not be consistent with the law . The dispute between the special counsels office and Trumps . defense team was made public in a court filing Thursday where the Justice Department explained why both sides havent come to an agreement on how to protect classified evidence in the case before trial . Trump is charged with illegally retaining documents related to the national defense many of which have markings calling for high levels of classification and special handling . Many of the records Trump is accused of mishandling are at the sensitive compartmented level as well as at the . sensitive level of information Trump is said to be at the center of the case as well . Trump and two of his employees are accused of trying to obstruct federal investigators as they sought to get the records back into the governments control . The filing was largely overshadowed on Thursday by the criminal case . Trump has pleaded not guilty and are beginning to have his first appearance in court next week after his indictment Thursday. The second employee Carlos De Oliveira is scheduled to have their first appearance next week. The judge has not yet decided to have an opportunity to have a hearing in court . The judge is expected to have to agree to an earlier version of this article .
Trump team wants to discuss classified information at his house rather than in a secure space,
