of justice investigation. >> absolutely that was part of it. absolutely it was. >> my point had been and remains, the attorney general had several steps he could go through before he's playing around in mar-a-lago. >> for month and month and months, there was tremendous deference given. >> the trump team tells you there were ongoing negotiations concerning those documents. the thing is that to go to the level of raiding the former president's home, a political rival of president biden, that is such a high level of scrutiny. as you know, they can't claim it was because the national security was at risk because they didn't even ask anybody who's in national security. >> would you have that same reaction if the same circumstances applied to biden? you would say the exact same thing, oh, they shouldn't have done it? >> i actually said this on jake tapper's show. i said if somebody came on