think about it, maybe this will be upsetting. and that was a source of tension within federal law enforcement. it was folks on the fbi side saying maybe we should pump the brakes. and in fact, according to this testimony, one of the officials suggested just having surveillance of mar-a-lago and a big van came up that seems to being driving up with boxes, then they would execute a search warrant. it s really striking the extent to which despite having all this video footage there was still pushback within the fbi against the justice department officials who wanted to go ahead and execute that search warrant. and of course we can only think about what might have happened if that view expressed by some folks in the fbi had been the prevailing one. this all could have gone very differently. andrew weisman, do you want to respond to that? i agree with that. but folks remember that, one, it
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that means the american public will not be able to watch the hearing, though, poppy. and don, we should note. of course, there will be still photographers in the room at the beginning, so we will see some photos of trump in the room. there just aren t going to be those cameras after we did say yesterday, trump s team argued against having them in there. a lot of folks did want them though. even you know , some folks, we respect a lot, andrew mccabe said. i thought it would cut down on the part of the media organizations that you know we have won it. but but for anyone who says, well, we re not going to know what set in court. yes you can. you can read the entire transcript of what happens in thatttroombut,, it wl to see let s bring it now cnn political commentator and former special adviser to president barack obama, mr van jones. former trump campaign adviser. republican strategist, mr david urban. he doesn t say my name that way, poppy heart. uh but listen, we need a little levity be
note the current d a. he knows his way around the courtroom, and he s i think, perhaps a needed contrast with what we ve seen so far from donald trump s team in that todd blanche is not a bombastic he is not going to pound the podium. he is focused his careful he s really soft spoken, if anythingand so perhaps this will bring some balance and some little more substance to trump s legal team, which is pretty unusual for trump to pick us up. good tasting lawyers represented people in trump s orbit as well. paul manafort as an example of that. when it comes to all of this, you know, we re thinking about trump s legal team. but we re also talking about these attacks as poppy was noting there the unusual nature of the attacks on the district attorney here, alvin bragg. we are going to hear from him today, too, though, after all of this happens, i mean, yeah, we re expecting him to have a press conference later today, and this is difficult it is i mean, big, high profile cases, they usually