investigators. for their part, they say trump s team will push the argument that he did not have classified information because he declassified it while still president. more now from jessica schneider in washington. reporter: new details about the fbi search of mar-a-lago are emerging as republican congressional leaders cry foul about the target and the timing. i know doing this 90 days before aen election reeks of politics. reporter: kevin mccarthy tweeting the department of justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization, warning about investigations if republicans take the house in november wri wri wri writing ag garland come and answer our questions about this action today which has never happened in american history. what was on the warrant, what were you really doing, what were you looking for, why not talk to president trump and have him give the information you are after? reporter: trump was in new york at trump tower when the search
she s taking cases before the grand jury, she s tried multidefendant cases. she is in the her office is in the midst of a big gang trial right now, ysl gang trial. it has been several months of jury selection. i think that s noteworthy for whenever this case may come to trial, that it is likely to take several months just to even seat a jury. but she knows what she s doing. and i know that sadow has a great reputation, but so does fani willis. she represented defendants before and she s worked as a prosecutor. so she also sat as a judge for a period of time. so she knows all sides of the law and she has been doing this for many years and the fact that she took this before a grand jury i think speaks to the strength of the case that she believes she has. david, a judge scheduled in october 23rd trial for co-defendant chesebro, a lawyer accused of orchestrating the
i think the case that is still poses the most risk to him is jack smith s federal election interference case. and that may well be, jose, the first case that is tried. that s where the special counsel s office asked for a january of 2024 trial date. you know, of course, that donald trump would like to try that case never and his lawyers propose april of 2026. on monday, judge chutkan of the federal court in d.c. will hold a hearing at which he s she s expected to rule on when that trial date will be. and both because of the timing and the severity of the charges, and the fact that trump is the sole defendant in that case and is expected to remain the soul defendant, i think that case still poses the greatest risk to him. even though the georgia charges are ones that he likely cannot wish away if he were to be elected president again. lisa rubin, blayne alexander, david aaronburg, shannon mccaffrey and keisha lance
about why harrison floyd remains in custody, and, of course, the fact that somebody does remain in custody at all is interesting because we have seen these 18 co-defendants of donald trump starting to have divergent interests from the former president who would like to delay his trial for as long as possible where some of his co-defendants are cash poor and have incentives to start cooperating, jose. and, so, david, let s talk about that. in this case, floyd, it seems like that is indeed what happens in his case. but it is because he has a prior. yeah, i think the reason why he s not been given bond automatically is because he has a prior case. unlike the other defendants. he was charged back in may for attacking an fbi official who was trying to serve a subpoena on him to appear at jack smith s investigation. and he responded with violence. and so fani willis is not going to automatically give that person a bond until perhaps he
clear to us according to the fbi, this is their voice, saying, look, what they re telling us is not what is actually happening and all these boxes are being moved back and forth and people are reviewing boxes and items of evidence, eventually for them. so i think when you look at this, you re looking at a situation where our knowledge of what occurred does not necessarily move forward a ton, but it does give us a little bit insight of what might come up at trial. i think potentially the surveillance video could be very helpful to the justice department s case. the fbi was saying we see the surveillance video, boxes being moved, we don t know where they re being moved to. exactly. not only that, the at the same time, they said we have gone through all the boxes, made sure there is no other classified information, we re all good here, they see the attorney for trump going into a room to review documents and after that comes out with this envelope. they re saying, wait a minute, you r