everybody has been asking me about it we may have the answer later in the show. while i was away in the beautiful state of mearch sur rowmpedded by liberal family members i couldn t stop thinking about the mar-a-lago raid. i know. why did they do it? what did they take? they leaked that trump was hoarding nuclear secrets. they charged him under the espionage act. they must think he is trying to sell our secrets to the enemy. we had the team here at primetime do digging. i kept thinking about how sloppy bill clinton was. and then we came across this old doocy. president bill clinton actually lost the nuclear football. general hugh shelton says in the year 2,000 the clinton white house lost the presidential codes needed to launch nuclear weapons. newly released memoir general shelton writes the codes were actually missing for months. this is a big deal. a gargantuan deal and we dodged a silver bullet. jesse: we couldn t launch nukes for months because slick wily fumbled t
that is where we begin the hour. mike schmitt is here, he s an msnbc national security contributor. david loveman with the export control section at the justice department s national security division. david win start with you. tell us anything you know about the latest man to be tasked with trying to do something to hold donald trump accountable. well, we know him to be an outstanding prosecutor. and not to mention he s been working with the international tribunal handling war crimes, which may prepare him for what he s about to take on in this job. it s not just about him and whether he is fully up to this job. the team he ll have working for him, they are career prosecutors who have been staffing this
you still don t believe this raid was not on the up and up? look at the people involved. fbi agent who visited mearlg back in june and told trump to lock up the docs, guy named jay brat. he also happens to be a democrat donor who helped robert mueller with the fake russia investigation. that s who they sent down to mar-a-lago. and the guy is leaking like crazy to his buddy david loveman who is running cover for the raid. watch this. the fact that he had fbi material out in the wild, so to speak, at risk, is particularly stunning and particularly egregious. there was, in fact, sufficient probable cause to carry out this search. it completely validates the search warrant. it completely validates the government s investigation. jesse: then you have fbi intelligence analyst brian oughtn t. ever hear of him? he is the guy who helped bury the laptop before the last election. he was the guy who was disciplined for cooking up phony
last month asked federal law enforcement agencies to examine legal ways of removing exiled turki turkish cleric in an attempt to sway looking for ways to placate turkey over the murder of u.s. journalist jamal khashoggi. nbc continues, quote, career officials at the agencies pushed back on the white house requests as one senior u.s. official described it, quote, at first there were eye rolls. once they realized it was a serious request, the career guys were furious. joining us now is somebody who knows how things are supposed to work inside the administration or inside any administration on an issue like this. he knows what normal looks like. in a circumstance like this. david loveman was a long time civil servant at the department of justice. in february he resigned as the head of the justice department s
house to reverse the decisions, reverse the views of career officials who work on these things as a professional matter? it would be unusual if the facts as reported are true. there s been a careful vetting of the validity of the turkish government s . this is not even a second bite of the apple, but a third or fourth. it appears they re trying to create a pretext under some sort of facts to reject him out of the united states to placate the erdogan regime to soothe its current hostility toward the saudi government, to appease the fact that our own david loveman, always an honor to have you here, sir, thank you for your time. thank you, rachel. the framing he put on that there shouldn t be skipped over. i mean, what nbc is reporting