texas is follow the law to the tee to make sure that everything that we ve done comports with the federal law. we receive written authorization by everybody that we transport that they agree to exactly what we are doing. there s been zero people that texas has misled. zero people that texas has misled. the prosecutor in me wants to test whether that in fact is true. so, let s take that to someone who was just with the migrants flown to martha s vineyard just this very morning. here with us as well is immigration attorney allen orr, a former president of the american immigration lawyer s association. i m very glad you re both here. i m still a little bit stunned by the map that was put on the screen, this idea of a red line from texas to massachusetts. telling people, here s where you re going. the bigger question people have, aside from the optics of this, i
take a listen. what we have done in the state of texas, we have followed the law to the tee. we want to make sure that everything we have done comports with federal law. we were cev written authorization by everybody that we transport. they agree to exactly what we are doing. i find that to be saw specht. charles, what do you think about the probe into the? there is the idea that they would be looking into a case of human trafficking or worse. katie, i don t think that it rises to the level of human trafficking as of yet. however, with respect to kidnapping, a potential kidnapping charge, i absolutely believe that the doj should launch an investigation. i think there are considerations that should be applied with respect to investigating something of this sort. consider the civil rights of each of these individuals. i have a lot of questions. one of where, these authorizations, where they in the native language of these individuals that were coming
then they were dropped on martha s vineyard with nothing. that, to me, is enough evidence, adequate predication, to open a criminal investigation into federal kidnapping by inveiglement across state lines. let me play what governor abbott said, because first he sort of distanced himself, but he s been doing the same thing. here s governor abbott of texas. i m the former attorney general in texas, as well as a former texas supreme court justice. i know the law very well. and what we have done in it state of texas is follow the law to the tee, to make sure that everything that we have done comports with the federal law. we receive written authorization by everybody that we transport that they had agreed to exactly what we are doing. that does not sound like the biden administration agrees with that, representative, because the biden administration is now discussing a range of options,
cleared to move them and then stored in a way that comports with, in this case, not just confidential, not to secret, not just top secret, not just sensitive, compartmented information. but human control systems that go to actual human sources overseas. special access programs that are limited to a handful of people who have a need to know. and for all intents and purposes, as best as the investigators have laid out in their documents, it looked like these boxes were packed up in the white house office moved on a moving truck by moving who i am pretty confident or not cleared for this information and put in a basement storage room that is guarded by a padlock, which is not a secure compartmented information facility with lead lined walls and secret code to enter by authorized people. they were kept at a minimum in the former president s office and basement, adore that the fbi had to tell trump
that such extremely classified documents sat at mar-a-lago for all that time? joining me now to discuss, cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller. john, good to see you. thank you for joining us. appreciate it. li listen, we re talking about the level of classification only the president and a few top officials would have access to. should these have ever left the secure environment, a secure environment and ended up at mar-a-lago or at someone s beach home? so no, no, they shouldn t be removed from a government facility and if they re removed from a government facility, they need to be removed by people cleared to move them and stored in a way that comports with in this case, not just confidential, not just secret, not just top secret, not just sensitive come pcompartmented information but go to actual human sources overseas and