testify in georgia tomorrow. also tonight, vote remembers going to the polls in two states with liz cheney s political career on the line in wyoming and lisa murkowski facing a challenge for her senate seat in alaska and get this, sarah palin is trying to become relevant again. get that skit ready, snl. i m tiffany cross in for joy reid. we begin with a familiar place, maybe even a happy place, because donald trump is once again at the center of controversy. this time over classified top secret documents that led to the mar-a-lago raid. now the judge who approved a search warrant will hear arguments thursday over whether to unseal the search warrant affidavit. the doj has asked a judge to keep it sealed while trump wants it released. meanwhile, republicans and pro-jump extremists continue to slam the fbi and justice department over their search and now there s another talking point floating in the ether saying what trump actually did it was no big deal. i think mar-a-lago
absolutely accurate by this country s history. peter, i m curious through your counterterrorism lens, i m watching this play out as an american, but i do wonder what message is this sending on a global stage to our allies and enemies alike as they see how incompetent this man was and how careless he was with national secrets? i m curious, you know, are people breathing a sigh of relief that he s not in office, or do people look at this as some sort of permanent character flaw in american political leadership? well, i think you re getting two big thoughts across the capitals of the various nations, the first for our allies. there s i think likely stunned that this level of information that he took out of the white house, that he was keeping in his personal residence, and, again, keep in mind the intelligence collection that the united states engages in, we get an extraordinary volume of intelligence from our allies and from other friendly nations. we rely on that to keep america safe.
doing, whether it s russia and ukraine, various terrorist entities around the world. we need a that exchange of information, but if all these nations are looking at trump and saying how could it be all this information was there? how possibly can they believe, particularly the trump still in the political scene, that they can that they can trust america in the days ahead? now the second conversation that s going on overseas, particularly in the halls of moscow and beijing are what is out there that we can recover? who knows what russia or china might have already done in terms of getting somebody into mar-a-lago, whether they are on the staff or somebody who is delivering food to the cafeteria, whether they are a guest? this represents an extraordinary opportunity for hostile nations to target, whether it s the actual documents or trying to get conversations. there s just a host of vulnerabilities and problems that this creates not just now but it casts a long shadow into the future
the highest level of information to protect the national defense demonstrates that they actually had what we thought they had which was significant probable cause, and just one other thing here because we ve got to go back to the fact that in that warrant there was actually a line that was critically important that also talked about evidence, information that might lead to understanding destruction, concealment or transmission, that means sharing. yeah. something that could make us more vulnerable as a country so someone should ask ron johnson, the pardon-seeker, whether or not that gives him pause. yeah. ron johnson serves on the house foreign on the senate foreign relations committee, also the homeland security committee so someone should ask him do you take classified documents off
could use as learning over people, things he could use to settle the scores. the biggest question in my mind is why on earth having been told repeatedly by so many people that resteadfastly refused to turn these things over and instead carried them all away. you know, i hope doj is contempt now with the fbi that they have recovered everything, but we re talking about a massive amount of information. a massive amount indeed, and maya, i want to point out that ron johnson is in a very tight race in wisconsin against mandela barnes there. what s baffling to me about this entire thing is that 75 million people voted for this man. present day millions of people across this country remained blindfoldly loyal whose first job in government was president of the united states in a job he failed miserably i would say. we have reporting from the wall street journal that garland was mull this over. i wonder from your brilliant expertise as an attorney, how much of that should garland have looke