bit from the purely legal to part of the political here. in a piece out yesterday here you wrote, quote, trump s base, of course, will believe that the justice department and the fbi are falsely accusing him. but for everyone else, a sense of exhaustion that trump s antics feels inevitable. tell us about how you think all this will play out, particularly in the political arena. i do think that this is doing political damage to donald trump. i think moderate republicans independents republicans in the suburbs, they have a fatigue of trump. and i think it hurts their view of him. and what i notice and wrote about is and i have heard this from former trump administration officials, is that donald trump s actions, after he lost the election in november 2020, by millions of votes, grew increasingly reckless and unhinged. and this search at mar-a-lago is the latest example that the
so you only pay for what you need. if anyone objects to this marriage. (emu squawks) kevin, no! not today. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. trump spent years refusing to release his tax returns to the public. but house democrats may might finally have access. this week, a federal appeals panel unanimously ruled that the house ways and means committee has the authority to obtain trump s tax returns from the treasury department. committee chairman richard neil said in response, with great patience, we follow the judicial process, and yet again, our position has been confirmed by the courts. joining me now, susanne craig, an investigative reporter for the new york times, who has covered trump s business and tax issued for years. susanne, first off, are you
declined to give detail about what types of information the agents were seeking. including whether it involved weapons belonging to the united states or to another country. and we don t know if those documents were among those retrieved this week. for this part for his part, donald trump has labeled the nuclear weapons issue a hoax. but here s what we do know. the justice department is handling this matter by the book, or so they say. here is attorney general merrick garland on thursday. the search warrant was authorized by a federal court upon the required finding of probable cause. i personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. the department does not take such a decision lightly. we are possible in a standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search and to narrowly scope of any search that is undertaken. trump s spokesperson has
believe trump was in violation of three federal statutes regarding the removal or destruction of records, obstruction of justice and the espionage act. 30s ended up removing 11 sets of classified documents, including some that were labeled secret and top secret. they were also papers described as sci or sensitive compartmented information, that s one of the highest levels of government classification. and just hours ago, the heads of the house oversight and house intelligence committees sent a letter to the director of national intelligence, requesting a national security damage assessment of the classified documents taken from trump s home. according to new reporting from the washington post, documents related to nuclear weapons were among the items fbi agents sought in the search. now they are still a lot we don t know. sources speaking to the post
january 6th committee has done an amazing job of cataloging his behavior, after the election, and how outrageous it was. and former aides told me that he would sort of listen to his lawyers. he wouldn t cross legal red lines, again, before he loses the election. and so all of this, the january 6th work the search of mar-a-lago, shows how reckless and he d-less he has become. and how he has just, i think, a danger. and i hope that voters will see that. paul, it s great that authorities now have possession of all these documents, right? hands down, period. but trump had them for a year and a half. how are we sure that the document, the physical document, is the only manifestation of the document are we sure that they didn t take photographs of it? how are we sure they didn t copy it? how are we sure that they didn t distributed? well, we are not sure at all.