ruling from the 11th circuit court of appeals, allowing the justice department access to the hundred or so classified documents seized from mar-a-lago, documents trump had been trying to keep the justice department from using its investigation. i think we have all been expecting trump s team to appeal that ruling to the supreme court any minute now. but here is something else to consider on that front. the 11th circuit roulette ruling was a pretty stinging reputed to the trump avoided district judge, eileen cannon, who had rule in trump s favor, who had ruled that the justice department could not even looking at any of the documents seized from trump s house. and today, that to district judge amended her order to comply with the 11th circuit reversal. so, now her order no longer says the doj can not look at those 100 classified documents. when questioned legal ask sports are now questioning asking is, does that mean there s no reason for trump to appeal to the supreme court even if he
repeatedly over the last few weeks. while today, a special master in the case, has essentially called trump s bluff. today, judge raymond dearie today gave trump s legal team eight days to state officially, in a court filing, whether the fbi planted any evidence. basically, it s put up or shut up time for your client s claims. this comes after last night s ruling from the 11th circuit court of appeals, allowing the justice department access to the hundred or so classified documents seized from mar-a-lago, documents trump had been trying to keep the justice department from using its investigation. i think we have all been expecting trump s team to appeal that ruling to the supreme court any minute now. but here is something else to consider on that front. the 11th circuit roulette ruling was a pretty stinging reputed to the trump avoided district judge, eileen cannon, who had rule in trump s favor, who had ruled that the justice department could not even
you are a prosecutor. if i did what she did, i would be in jail. if i did a tent a tenth of what she did, i would be in jail today. remember the crowds at the republican national convention just thundering over and over again, lock her up? what they were actually saying was lock her up for mishandling classified information. once donald trump did become president, he set about trying to actually do it, to put hillary clinton in jail because of her supposed mishandling of classified documents. on multiple occasions, he told top justice department officials to prosecute clinton. he ordered his white house counsel, don mcgahn, to get the justice department to prosecute her. according to the new book from journalist peter baker and susan glasser, trump not only repeatedly pressured his attorneys general to prosecute clinton, but told don mcgahn that if they win, he would prosecute her himself as president. and until the white house
incumbent deputy white house counsel. so, even more so, there would have been interests on the side of the executive privilege for the incumbent deputy white house counsel. here we have a former white house lawyer, an incumbent president, we re waved executive privilege for the january 6th inquiry. so, it is really remarkable. it s almost like they are setting themselves up for another embarrassing loss, that this is what they are trying to do. is it delay? we know from the january 6th committee hearing that eric herschmann has a lot of insider information regarding the potting around january 6th, the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election. yeah. so, i think it s delay, delay. he also seems to get that. so, the times reporting is that he says to them, you are not going to put me between yourselves and the justice department. and he obviously cooperated with the january six committee. and he has bombshell testimony that, i think, he would be a star witness let s pu
what do you think this could be related to? is it trump? is it executive privilege? we or do we see the meeting of this mines? so, if you think of everybody who is kind of in the crosshairs of the justice department, in this we summons reporting from new york times, is that herschmann, the white house lawyer who gave fantastic testimony, to the january six committee in terms of credible testimony, very compelling the new york times says that trump s lawyers were trying to block him asserting executive privilege because he has been handed a gradually subpoena from the d. c. court. there they are, to have the people that are mentioned in the new york times report, walking out of that courtroom, are the ones that were the interlocutors of herschmann, trying to block him, and the new york times report says that he said to them,, well if why did you get a court order to block me. then maybe i wouldn t testify. there s this kind of tantalizing into the new york times story, which is that