authority for declassification. he can stand over a set of documents and say these are now declassified. that is done with definitive action immediately. if you re the president united states, you can declassify bay saying it s declassified, even thinking about it. because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or to wherever you are sending it. the lawyer didn t trust you hitting from the talking points written by a lawyer. he had a standing order, there s the word. there was no standing order. cash patel saying he issued further declassification orders. this is what has not been produced now in many and before the court approves searching mar-a-lago, there was a year and a half in which they could have produced evidence that these were declassified
so i think c.r.e.w., which by the way you said up front does phenomenal work in shining the flight spotlight in many different places. as it pertains to the justice, it will be one more call not to be answered immediately. i think congress and both houses have bigger fish to fry in the immediate future. but it will be again another call and more momentum for a code of conduct, just as lower court of appeals judges have that would apply to the justices as well. frank, i ll give you a quick last word on just the importance of prying loose these kinds of documents that, institutions don t want to shine a light on. yeah, first, let me just remind people that in case they think that clarence thomas just doesn t know what recusal is, he s recused himself 54 times during his service on the court, including 17 times in cases that just remotely, distantly involve his son s college and where his son works. so he knows how to recuse
the angry mop or spread the lies that fueled it have been charged with anything. not one thing. the effort under way to hold those responsible for the insurrection to account. doj s investigation into the attempts to overthrow and subvert the will of the people in trump s defeat in 2020 is pressing on. but mostly out of public view. but we do know a fierce legal battle is under way between the federal government and the ex-president s legal team as the ex-president donald trump is trying to use executive claims, sound familiar? to stop people who work from him from testifying. new reporting in politico gives us an incredible glimpse into this battle. it finds that a federal judge is now considering unsealing documents that show the arguments trump s making. quote, chief judge beryl howell of the u.s. district court for the district of columbia on wednesday asked the district
they maintain records from the national archived related to the 15 boxes. some of them are top secret that donald trump took with him to mar-a-lago. they maintain communications from florida governor ron desantis s office having to do with his migrants to martha s vineyard scheme. they uncover material that indicated chuck schumer was the subject of a shooting threat at the u.s. capitol when it was under attack on january 6th. and that s just this month. documents related to the effort to overturn the 2020 election, related to how much the secret service knew before the capitol attack. documents related to how much the secret service paid to stay at donald trump s hotels and various golf properties. c.r.e.w. was a not so quiet driving force before the unearthing of all of it, going to court, seeking the truth. now they re calling for action. in a request sent to the house and senate judiciary committees, c.r.e.w. recommended this, congress investigate ginni thomas for trying to overthr
examination into his campaign. if it exxonerated him from what he considers to be the 2016 russia hoax, that explains why he might have kept it. it s not stuff he is going to sell. it s not stuff that benefits other countries. it may clear his name or in his mind clears his reputation. he might have taken crossfire hurricane documents to clear himself in some future political run? not just political. if you are him this is important for people to understand. he doesn t like the fbi. a lot of republicans, myself included, remember that the fbi gave false information. it s hard to say they lied, because you don t know their mental state. they did give false information to another court, in 2015, where they wanted to spy on the trump campaign. if that s the history and the level of trust is absolutely zero. if the president had documents that cleared his name and the fbi said, we would like them back, he gives them back, is he