make a mistake? for the justice department prosecutors, the worry was often, we can t sit on this. we can t just wait and hope that the former president will do the right thing, and those two worries and two types of concerns really were at odds sometimes. devlin, i guess one of the things i wonder what your final opinion on this is. on one hand, it seems like fbi agents are reluctant to investigate two radar search the mar-a-lago property because they re concerned about the optics, they re concerned about what will happen in their careers, they don t want to go in and read a former presidents homes and jackets that say fbi. and then on the other hand, it seems like some legitimate belief that maybe trump and his legal team are cooperating, and that they have gotten everything that they need. how much of this reluctance to search mar-a-lago was due to political pressure, and how much of it was legitimate belief that, actually, we have everything that we need?
of what leo s role, what is the road forward here questionable, at least on the outside? i think every time i appear on the show to talk with you about the supreme court, i always wind up saying that at some point, this is gonna be a really bad day for john jo roberts. the two justice of the united states who more than anyone views himself as the institutional stewart of the court. this is terrible for the court! i mean we ve already had over the last year reporting about a campaign to influence supreme court justices, buying buildings across from the court, and now this! if the public was already disenchanted with the court, wondering if something was up with the court maybe this is not the usual arbiter that we thought it was. this is not going to help, but it s not going to make john roberts s job as chief justice, the still with a court in just any easier. what was expelling dollars, and it s one part of town dollars. melissa murray, thank you very times and i. thank. you
evidence. that happens in a lot of cases. there are tension points, flare-ups, they get resolved, and they move forward. i think what is so different about the trump investigation is really two things. obviously, this is a very high profile case, you know that there will be a lot of attention paid to this. you know that there will be a lot of second-guessing, both inside the government and outside the government, and to, i think, as you ve seen and the discussions, as we report them, there is a lot of tension and worry about making the wrong move. for the fbi agents, that often meant worrying about what if we go too fast, too quickly and make a mistake? for the justice department prosecutors, the worry was often, we can t sit on this. we can t just wait and hope that the former president will
carefully, and they were worried about the political implications of provoking the former president, and all this resulted in very heated battles between the fbi and justice department prosecutors who were advocating the more aggressive strategy of trying to retrieve those documents down at mar-a-lago. according to the washington post, it was only after a series of intense negotiations with justice department prosecutors that the fbi eventually moved forward with its search, and all along the way, in spite of all of the evidence to the contrary, the fbi continued to give trump and his legal team the benefit of the doubt. the washington post reports that some fbi field agents wanted to shutter the criminal investigation altogether, in early june, after trump s legal team asserted a diligent search had been conducted. but according to the washington post, the justice department prosecutors continue to push for a search of mar-a-lago. those prosecutors were ultimately vindicated when the
attorney general who appeared at one of these hearings was jeff sessions. remember jeff sessions? back in the year 2017, when republicans control the senate. today, republican because the opportunity to grow garland on issues that the most important of the country. senator chuck grassley focused on the investigation into hunter biden. senator marsha blackburn after garland and what she called the two thirds of justice and questioned why the department had not prosecuted a group accused of firing bombing a crisis pregnancy center in her state. crisis pregnancy centers, if you recall, are not for discouraging people from having abortions as advertising themselves as having clinics and information about abortions. this was an exchange about senator blackburn and the attorney general. let s talk about the far left group janes revenge. they claimed the responsibility for that. they went so far as to spray-paint their name on the