reid. we begin with more on the search at donald trump s mar-a-lago home. while trump and his allies have been raging the fbi and the justice department have remained conspicuously quiet. here s what we have learned. according to authority the federal authorities drew increasingly concerned that the man, i don t know, known for skirting the law for the last 40 years and his lawyers, have not returned all of the classified material that he carted off with him when he went scurrying down to florida after being booted out of office by joe biden. i a cording to the washington post officials, quote, blame, suspicious became suspicious that when trump gave 15 boxes of items to the national archives about seven months ago, either the former president or people close to him held on to key records. trump attorney christina bobb, the former oan reporter who helped spearhead the recount said trump s legal teams were in discussions with the justice department this spring about record
trump s ability to continue to stall and so if you re deposing trump s people in a grand jury and take the fifth can you on the spot give them a blanket we won t indict you and make them talk? they can t hide behind the fifth amendment if not in fear of prosecution. i don t know. i think the u.s. attorney general merrick garland is a great lawyer deprived of the court seat. but what i want to know is, are we going to have time? i figure we have two years to go to trial. i don t mean two years for the indictment. to go to trial before trump gets to stall by saying he is running for president and these are the issues that i worry about and not the legal case. i think that s really those are well stated questions
in the age of trump, there s no more stupid proposition than that nancy pelosi is the problem. if aoc and her pygmalions and acolytes decide that burning down the house is more important than deposing trump, they ll be left with a racist, backward president and the emotional satisfaction of their own purity.
at the expense of our institutions, whether taking putin s word at face value in helsinki or exchanging, quote, love letters with kim jong-un. those are both arguments that you hear former vice president joe biden make frequently on the campaign trail about president trump and his approach to foreign policy, and now you have the trump campaign responding to the biden campaign s response. a spokesman saying, quote, that s rich, coming from joe biden, who bashed president trump while standing on foreign soil earlier this year in germany. and biden s campaign is also fund-raising off of these comments from president trump, relating to north korea s criticism of the former vice president, so they sent out a fund-raising email that said that the reason that trump is reacting like this is because he is afraid he is going to lose. now, one person we haven t heard from directly in this entire little fight is joe biden himself. we ll see if he has any remarks to make about that today in houston
breaking news. after taking a ten-day break from the campaign trail, former vice president joe biden and his wife will be attending a town hall this hour in texas. cnn political reporter arlette saenz is in houston for us. arlette, the biden campaign waited for president trump to return to the president of the united states from japan, then hit back hard at the president s attacks. what s the latest? reporter: that s right, wolf. joe biden s campaign refrained from engaging directly with president trump yesterday on memorial day, saying they were trying to respect the sacred purpose of the day, but today, his campaign released a statement from the deputy campaign manager, kate bedingfield saying, quote, the president s comments are underneath the dignity of the office. to be on foreign soil, on memorial day, and to side repeatedly with a murderous dictator against a fellow american and former vice president speaks for itself. she added, and it s part of a pattern of embracing autocra