On Tuesday night, running up against the 11:59 PM deadline, the Justice Department filed its 40-page motion opposing Donald Trump's request that a special master be appointed to oversee the handling of documents seized at Mar-a-Lago. To wade through that meaty document and its implications, Lawfare managing editor Tyler McBrien was joined by Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin
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right now. so, david, we want to ask you about the fbi search of mar-a-lago after the release of the redacted copy of the affidavit. you tweeted, quote, hi, it the guy who wrote the president s book of secrets, all about presidents and intelligence. this affidavit affidavit makes blatant, reckless mishandling of so much highly classified information by the former president and/or those around him is unpresidentially awful. it is awful. and he doesn t deny that he had 15 boxes of documents, possibly more. but where do you see this going? it s not going to a good place for the former president, that s for sure. based on you had ryan goodman on earlier, and he laid out the fundamentals quite well. you have some real issues with classified information, yes. but just with the fact that there are government documents, the documents of the american people held in trust by the u.s.
9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west. we have a lot to cover this hour including the latest on the investigation into the scores of documents recovered at former president trump s mar-a-lago resort and how the justice departments findings may undercut calls from team trump for an outside evaluation. also why didn t they ask for this a long time ago. this is been going on a long time. i know. also president biden will deliver a prime time address on the continued battle for the soul of the nation. this thursday we ll get a live report from the white house on what is in store. and, has the next race for the white house begins to heat up, author david priess has a reminder, that not everyone needs to run for president. that conversation is ahead. as we talk about joe biden having a speech about the soul of the nation. and we talk about donald trump
used to regard as required for public service, but now seems extraordinarily courageous, which is speaking the truth regardless of what your party thinks, we immediately start talking about a presidential run. and it is not just politics who speak up with courage. i remember because i m old enough, michael avenatti when he was a lawyer pursuing cases against donald trump. people were promoting him to run for president against trump. i think that is really unfair to liz cheney. i think first of all your projecting on to her that, that is a motive for doing this. which i have not seen reporting to fully suggest. and number two, you re suggesting that anybody who does anything like at any level should be president. and david priess joins us now. he s a former cia intelligence officer, publisher of law fair and author of the book the president book of secrets , about the relationships between presidents and top secret