because he simply did not make the showing that he needed to make in order to have these documents held back. it s a balancing test when you re talking about executive privilege, the right of a president to hold back documents. and you ve got to show an overwhelming, compelling need for each individual document. and sometimes even a paragraph for a line on a document to be held back, and he just failed to do it. so once again, trump was brought down by lousy lawyering. of course we did come close to something much worse happening january 6th. let s talk about the contents of what s happening in this package of documents. what do you think is going to be most valuable to the january 6th committee? what are they going to learn from these documents from the archives? well, the contents of the documents, i think, are going to
it s a little more insidious and harder to see. so i m glad to hear a prosecutor say she s going to go where evidence takes her and not be bothered by fact this man used to sit in oval office. hope she adheres to that pledge. talk about national archives having to go to mar-a-lago to take back documents. he routinely ripped up documents. donald trump was a lawless president. you know, kim was just talking about the threat from the inside to the united states. donald trump was the leader of that threat. and he did not care about the presidential records act. routinely destroyed documents. aides, to their credit, retrieved some of the torn pieces and taped them together, sent them to the archives, but other things that should have
at the ukrainian border, that s taking over a country from the outside. we understand that. when america, with donald trump and those around him, cronies in congress and others, what s happening is takedown of the country from the inside-out. it s a little more insidious and harder to see. so i m glad to hear a prosecutor say she s going to go where evidence takes her and not be bothered by fact this man used to sit in oval office. hope she adheres to that pledge. talk about national archives having to go to mar-a-lago to take back documents. he routinely ripped up documents. donald trump was a lawless president. you know, kim was just talking about the threat from the inside to the united states. donald trump was the leader of that threat. and he did not care about the
some kind of a crazy, wacky trumper who has, you know, is spreading fake news. so it was a weird, weird year. so your ten-year quest to find out what we were doing with germ warfare research and possibly even using it in the korean war ends, i think, in what a courtroom would call kind of a hung jury. it ends without the absolute conclusive proof beyond a reasonable doubt. and that proof, by the way, as you point out in the book, may be being blocked. the freedom of information act may not be able to get us to the documents that could tell us that truth. and so we have a government that is holding back documents, holding them back against you and your research on its own history of labs, of this sort doing research for good and for bad.
without becoming some kind of a crazy lackey trumper who has, you know, spreading vic fake news. it was a very weird, weird year. so, your tenure quest to find out exactly what we were doing with germ warfare research and possibly even using it in the korean war ends, i think, in what a courtroom would call kind of a hung jury. it ends without the absolute conclusive proof we beyond reasonable doubt. that proof, by the way, as you find out the book, maybe being blocked. the freedom of information act may not be able to get us to the documents they tell us that truth. so, we have a government that is holding back documents, holding them back against you and your research on its own history of labs, of this sort, during research for good and