as much as possible, operating in the background and then disaster happens. between the potential rail strike and this accident, it just blow this whole thing open and now we are acutely aware of all the risk involved. thank you, my friend, as always. and thanks to you at home for joining us tonight. do you remember this photo? the iconic image of classified documents laid out on the floor of donald trump s mar-a-lago home after the fbi search the esophagus. the reason we have all seen this photo is because donald trump essentially forced the justice department to reveal it in a court filing after trump went to court to try to slow down the investigation. that is how we all access to the photo a summer. a filing in open court. there is literally no question as to its origin. who made the photo public, and why it was being made public, which is what made this exchange the day between senator ted cruz and attorney general merrick garland, it s why it made it a little awkward.
do you remember this photo? the iconic image of classified documents laid out on the floor of donald trump s mar-a-lago home, after the fbi search it last august? the reason we have all seen this photo is because donald trump essentially forced the justice department to reveal it in a court filing after trump went to court to try to slow down the investigation. that is how we all access to the photo a summer. a filing in open court. there is literally no question as to its origin. who made the photo public, and why it was being made public, which is what made this exchange the day between senator ted cruz and attorney general merrick garland, it s why it made it a little awkward. as you know, the fbi raided donald trump s mar-a-lago home and subsequent to that raid, there have been multiple leaks about what was discovered there, including a photograph of documents discovered there. did you know about the leaks? the photograph was a filing in court in response to a motion
so, i think one thing to remember is the hangover, crossfire hurricane and really, the hangover investigation of 2016 into donald trump and into hillary clinton just permeate this whole discussion, and i think it s important to remember as much as there were political debates and political retribution, there were also genuine mistakes made in the course of those investigations, that the fbi paid dearly for after the fact. so, i certainly don t discount the justice department concerns that too much of the fbi s caution was based on the idea of political blowback. but i also think you had to keep in mind that there were inspector general reports that were sharply critical of how the fbi did past investigations at this type of profile, so what you see in these back and forth, what our reporting shows, is that there is a degree of
the justice home, we will go arrest and charge them? it s a black letter violation of the law. our priority is violence and threats of violence and protection of the justices, and that is what we re doing. joining us now is matt miller, former chief spokesperson for the obama justice department. matt, thank you for being here. just wow in terms of everything marilyn has to deal with, in addition to killings like that on the hill, let s just refresh everybody s memory about what this man is dealing with. the special counsel investigation into trump s handling of documents, the special counsel investigation into biden s handling of documents. the ongoing hunter and biden investigation, the ongoing durham probe and the special investigation into january six made it on to that list. it s nonetheless a major investigation. is it in this climate possible for merrick garland to wear all these hats and manage all this in a way to is going to convince anyone that the
ones is trying to be a political that the justice department ultimately makes political decisions. is that a fair assessment? i will give a defensive response. i don t think it s a fair assessment. i certainly that is not the takeaway that i have with this story. i think the story is that you have both the department of justice and the fbi proceeding carefully and cautiously, as they should, in conducting a search, not a raid, a search of a former presidents residence. they should be careful and cautious and to the and, it s important to note that the right decision was reached here. like the search happened. we talked about in politics injecting this, all of the reporting from the special counsel jack smith is an investigation that is proceeding full speed ahead, aggressively, bringing people in front of the grandeur, bringing attorneys at the