and imagine if after all the slavish loyalty to donald trump and all of the red and pink starbusts kevin mccarthy does not become speaker of the house. tonight, we re going to imagine what a sorry state of affairs it would be if he does. we begin tonight with me. in this chair. yes, i am back and very grateful to my dear friends jason johnson and tiffany cross for holding down the bridge of the reidout enterprise for two whole weeks. two weeks i flew away for my writing retreat, and it turns out i can t leave you alone for one day let alone two weeks without all hell breaking lose. there was the fbi searching mar-a-lago on day one, polio in new york on like day three. i mean, apparently, i need to stay here to keep y all out of trouble. real talk, now that i m here and all caught up, i have questions. because it is not, shall we say, normal for a president of the united states to pack up boxes of classified top secret material and ferry them off to his private residence. th
special master to review what was taken by the fbi during their search. to prohibit the doj from further review of the seized material, requiring more detailed receipt of what was taken and return any items not within the scope of the search warrant. the doj responded to the filing, writing, quote, the august 8th search warrant at mar-a-lago was authorized by a federal court upon the required finding of probable cause. the department is aware of this evening s motion. the united states will file its response in court. of course, the fact this motion is only now being filed two weeks after the documents were collected and likely already reviewed makes you wonder, like, what the trump team expects from this filing other than a good talking point for fox news. unfortunately, we have the perfect person to discuss this with. joining me now, laurence tribe from harvard law school. professor tribe, thank you so much for being here. let s get into this. this motion that trump has now kind of w
and thinks that everything in the white house, classified or not, belongs to him personally, because he thinks the american president s job is just like putin s. was he going to sell it to the saudis or the kremlin for jared style billions? who knows. but we do need to know why. and the next question, which we will get to in a bit later with the great laurence tribe, is what are the consequences? because don t there need to be consequences? but let us start with the what and the why, and my wonderful team has assembled a rely great team of guests to do that. joining me are luke broadwater, congressional reporter for the new york times, and tim o brien, senior executive editor for bloomberg opinion. and luke, i m going to start with you because there s a ton of new information. trump has now filed this motion. he s filed a motion to ask a judge to appoint a special master to review the materials. he wants to sort of push back on them taking it. but there is sort of reporting
getting started. i think there s plenty more to come on this. before we go, any speculation out there from trump world about who might have tipped off the fbi to the existence of these materials, luke? well, we know they have interviewed at least a half dozen people. and in fact, the court filing today from the trump campaign put forward that they had put some of the aides down at mar-a-lago out there for these interviews. so it could well be that the justice department interviewed people who told them, look, there are still classified documents there, or this door is open and people are walking by it, or they re not handled the right way. we don t know exactly who gave the information to the fbi. but we do know that people at mar-a-lago have talked to them and maybe that is the reason the search warrant was proffered. thank you, apprec ament you both. up next, constitutional law
of course, threats of violence would be included, but right then, in footnote one, he says, i m leading 84% would support me if i ran for president in 2024. notice he s basically saying, i m the big guy here. i m going to be president. you better watch out. i mean, this document is itself perhaps one of the exhibits that might be entered in evidence in a criminal trial of donald trump for obstruction of justice. which is one of the things that led to the issuance of the search warrant. amazing. absolutely amazing. professor laurence tribe, always a pleasure. thank you, sir. still ahead, florida becomes ground zero in the fight to preserve american democracy and free speech. the good news is democracy actually might be winning. we ll be right back.