debate with president biden. one of the things that chris christie does so well is he pops balloons. he popped marco rubio s balloon. he s going to pop donald trump s balloon if he can, if that s possible. he s too talented not to have that moment. then can he ride that wave where he s not just popping balloons but he s doing more as a candidate and a potential nominee. that s where chris christie is trying to position himself. if i can say about mike pence, it s not a coincidence that that town hall coming up with dana bash is going to be in iowa. we saw bob vander platt last week on cnn saying we need anybody about donald trump. iowa is the heart and soul of the evangelical community. it s why mike pence rode his motorcycle this weekend. it s why he s going back. it s not just the voters he s competing for but where he competes. what happens with trump and christie s efforts here if trump doesn t show up to the debates? so chris christie is on the
documents the pentagon works on, and kind of spread them around, even to the president, i would be very surprised if they are understandably kept very tightly held, in frequently taken away from the pentagon, and usually removed from the situation room or the oval office with great care when the people who brought them over leave. and i should note that you also had a level of concern here that, the just carbon charged a suspected iranian operative last year for allegedly plotting to assassinate you. but on this front of when it comes to the relationship between the trump had between with general milley, what we are observations about trump s views towards chairman milley? well, when i was at the white house, this was in the period where the successor to general joe dunford, who was the chairman of the joint chiefs at the beginning of the administration, was going on. in my old personal view is that mark milley should be chairman of the joint chiefs. it happened that the trump agre
investigation, and here s what else we ve learned about this situation. federal prosecutors who are investigating trump s handling of classified documents, are now asking about this incident that happened at mar-a-lago last october. the maintenance worker at the club drain the pool, which ended up flooding a nearby room or computer servers, storing surveillance footage, were kept. that happened about two months after the fbi executed a search warrant at the club, and ended up finding hundreds of classified documents. to be clear we don t know if this room was flooded on purpose, or if this is a genuine mistake that happened. what we do know is that this is caught the eye of federal prosecutors, who founded suspicious. we know that they are looking into whether there were any efforts to obstruct the justice department s investigation. and we also know that surveillance footage from mar-a-lago shows the same maintenance worker who drained the pool, moving boxes around the club with anoth
propensity to bluster, there s actually better word for that, i won t use it on tv. but his propensity to bluster is an ending. well, i think there is concern for prosecutors here, that because they clearly want to know more about this. and they brought the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in to talk about it. and of course, we don t actually know which document trump was holding at that time, if he was simply referencing this document. but what our reporting did show is that the justice department wanted this document, and they sent a subpoena, they made clear to trump s attorneys i was told, that they wanted this document specifically that he was talking about on tape. that trump s attorneys could not locate the document to produce it. so if he was holding that document, and they were unable to find it, and there is a document related to iran out there, how much does that concern you about how it could compromise the u.s. national security? we ll, if it were an actual docume
and then in the end i would say, thank you very much, that s. it it s great for prosecutors, because you do get a little bit of a preview of what the defense is likely to be. now, if as i think your reporting caitlin s, the trump team came in there and air grievances. this is unfair, hobbled biden, that kind of. thing then it s a complete waste of an opportunity by the trump teen. it s a tactical mistake, because what good defense lawyers do, is go in and tell prosecutors, here are some holes in your case. you may have a problem with intent, you may not be able to prove some other element. and that can actually make a difference. i take that into account in these types of scenarios. i will say, jim trusty, who is one of the lawyers who is there, was actually pretty well regarded at the doj, when he worked there. he knows jack. smith yet, he knows jack smith. i would be surprised if he walked and didn t handle that professionally. we just don t know how this interaction was handle