sovereign wealth fund is run by the crown prince. so this is speculation, but if you are thinking about a motive, right, for president trump potentially to be holding back documents, not providing documents, there s a number of things you could think are possible. at worst, he potentially wanted to share classified information with the saudis. he could have been holding back information as sort of blackmail to make sure that they come through and host golf tournaments at his golf resorts. that is very, very lucrative for the former president. he could be it could be that he wrote notes on documents that pertain to the saudis that he doesn t want the federal government to see. it could be that he just does the donald trump thing and thinks it s cool to have these documents. i mean, there s lots of reasons, and it s really speculative for me to each be saying what i just said. but the point is if you re doj you re looking for the why
weaponized because of the fact that they conducted that search of mar-a-lago. so, a lot of the republicans are even admitting and i think comer did to jake tapper, that it is not so much the classified documents they re concerned about, they think that there has been some unequal treatment. but there is a very valid reason from officials, from doj officials, from the fbi, why there was different treatment. because of the fact that president biden s lawyer so far appear to be cooperating and immediately sending back documents. and that is not what trump and his team did. they withheld for more than a year. they re different treatment because they re different cases and way different behavior as far as we know at this point. laura, and john great to see both of you. the faa is investigating a close call between two plains at jfk. you re going to hear how swift action by a air traffic controller kept the jets from colliding. plus a search for survivors
thing here is whether or not the information should be kept confidential, whether there is an ongoing investigation, what is the investigation, and so those are the things that the justice department will try to that is the mine field that they are trying to walk through. and we can say from a reporting perspective, i feel like when redacted documents come out, we always want more. right. and i want to get to the national archives real quick. officials say a trump lawyer told them the classified documents trump had should be returned. communication good the two parties goes all the way back to may 2021. and we re here in august of 2022. that is a long time trying to get back documents. what do you make of that? well, first of all, litigation any litigation moves at a glacier s pace. so the time frame i see this with nonclients and attorneys, they say dwhere does it take so long. if there is a back and forth,
in public, which is a multi-month process by which the justice department was trying to negotiate with trump to give back documents, which he refused to do, and then there was a warrant that seized them whether or not there s evidence in those documents of additional criminal behavior besides holding them improperly. if there is additional evidence of criminal behavior hidden in those documents and there s a sense that trump knew that and that s why he was withholding it, i expect the justice department would be hard-pressed not to charge him criminally. time will tell as you say. michael zeldin, always great to have you on in your expertise. thank you. from world leaders to celebrated writers the international community speaking out to condemn the stabbing attack on friday on award winning author salman rushdie. our fight it is universal, now more than ever we standby his side.
house that the justice department wanted back. what we are learning is that authorities were suspicious that the trump team was not being utterly truthful with them. they were concerned that the trump team was holding back documents. that there are not putting forward everything that they had available. they re also concerned that some of those documents to potentially have national security implications. so that is part of what led to the search. they ve, you ve been talking to local law enforcement about this. i m wondering what you re learning down there in florida. you know laura, first, off we in the state attorney s office did not know about this search in advance. neither did local law enforcement. but you can understand why we are dealing with something so sensitive, so unprecedented, you can understand why the feds want to keep this close to the best. and when i was told is that the secret service met them there and walk the plain clothes fbi agents throughout the property