justice. plus, joe biden s primetime punch. the president tonight will use a national address to warn republicans are actively working in his view to undermine american democracy. and sarah palin loses in her alaska comeback attempt. a democrat won the special house election. so did advocates of what is called rank choice vote. a first for us, though. a court showdown next hour over the fbi s search of donald trump s mar-a-lago. the justice department says it did everything by the book and that its investigation should continue full speed ahead. team trump, though, is objecting and asking a judge to name a special master. that s an independent third party to review the materials taken from the former president s hotel, home and office. the hearing is before a trump-appointed judge who is already on record leaning in favor of a special master. team trump last night responded to a detailed government filing asserting that trump had no standing to ask for a special master and as
justice department. and i think that bears underlining here. and look, what you see from the former president is classic. right? he accuses people of things that he and his team have been doing. he s saying the justice department is going to leak. well, they had about roughly 72 hours after the search to themselves. they had the field. they sort of set the narrative telling reporters on background things that made its way into the press, and now it s forced the justice department to respond in two bombshell filings that have provided a lot more information frankly that we would have if it weren t for the fact that the former president has been making these allegations. i also want to note one of trump s lawyers last night went on a favorable network where they know they won t be treated with tough questions. this is not the way his office looks, she s making the point about that. anybody knows president trump s office he he has guests frequently. that s undermining your own argumen
brian: glad you are up. hope you are dressed. bombshell filings now revealing the democrats impeachment probe began before special counsel robert mueller finished with the russia report. this shows a double standard for democrats and their allegations. let s welcome in bret homan. you sarcastically told me in the break you re shocked that they did this. in a way, you are surprised that they would breach the system like this, aren t you? it is surprising. but you hear the old never let the facts get in the way of a good story. it seems they are buying into that. and they made an assumption of what mueller was going to report and they had already made a decision and reached their conclusion which should shock the nation. but unfortunately we are seeing a lot of that in politics right now. brian: they have heard enough. they wanted to get this whole proceedings going, assuming mueller was going to come up with some type of recommendation.
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