sod a lot oque franf really ine and quite frankly, startling d details. et d the devilon is inal the deo and i ll trump had no basis, no reason, no legal basis to retain those documents at mart r a lago. e there could be numerous there could be numerous just donald trumadp as well as additional crimes that coulds be charged. hee getting th is she kidding me? now, she mightat be getting tht idea from one of the smalls parts of the affidavit that was curiously left unredacted likerr on page thirty . we re referring to presidentum trump and p and those around hi quote, criminal parties, but stilstl didn t provide any evidence to prove it. it also warned that t releasinthgs team the affidavit would give trump and his team the opportunity to flee t or destroy evidence stord electronically and otherwise fleed . on really, trump s plane has hisan name on itde and destroyhing electronic evidence. do they mean doing something like, i don t know, deleting lit thirty three thousa
as an attempt to overthrowtto our entire such an democratic constitutional order. it s such an interesting point. i mean, here are intting the bureaucrats of the national archives, by the way, the same people the way who put trigger s on our founding documents on the constitution and saying that they trump the president of the unitehe presid states ins of these documents. well, i thin k what the the revelation was today, you know, this is a document dispute and it laid out in detail what what was there was back and forth about whether these documents arorthe classif ,whether they re not the trumphe organization and the lawyersnot thganization and the lawyersnot not. and he declassified them. againa ,the act of raiding a formersids president s home when this coulh president s home when this coulh the documents could have been sort through a motiothron to co through some other means besides a raid. got des a raid. they felt was absolutely necessary and they went inwe kno and got the docu
congresswoman maloney inma a letter that they had already gotten 15 boxes from trump. so again, we have a lot of questions and pretty minimal answers joininining meg me nowit is wisconsin senator ron johnson, who sits on the homeland securityd and governmental affairs committee. senator , welcome . this senator,ooks prett is pretty sea i mean, biden ids fbi raided the home of hise no political opponent. do we not deserve to know why? you knowt deserve to know why? well, rachel , absolutely. g you know, to me, this just pow seems to be a dispute regardingr presidential power in terms of classifying declassifying desk, ing andeclassifying documents. o and i thought the most afd i thought the most interesting part of the affidavit was exhibit a letter written by trump s attorney thaump s t points outya hopefully that the president has absolutet thower when it comes to declassifying material and that hisat actions regarding classification declassification are not subject to legal sanction.
the doj is an impartial actor, this whole sordid affair should put that tsho rest . the affidavit alleges that t there was probable cause toth believat ee that evidence of maa obstruction was going to be found at mar largo. alall ril right, then let s see do the documents released today support? well, there s a lot ofwher allegations here, but where s the actual evidence and we keep asking this, but what the heck took so longwa to execute thisae raid if it was such an urgent no namatter of national security, why did it take so long? june. then a search warranong? june. they got a subpoena in june,afte then a search warrant in august and then three days after that they finally marched in. think about it. it actually really concerning that the doj waited so long. if there was such an immediate risk to our national security, trump waofs out of office ford over five hundred days by the time the raid happened , his team had already been in talks with the national archivesback and the fbi f
sod a lot oque franf really ine and quite frankly, startling d details. et d the devilon is inal the deo and i ll trump had no basis, no reason, no legal basis to retain those documents at mart r a lago. e there could be numerous there could be numerous just donald trumadp as well as additional crimes that coulds be charged. hee getting th is she kidding me? now, she mightat be getting tht idea from one of the smalls parts of the affidavit that was curiously left unredacted likerr on page thirty . we re referring to presidentum trump and p and those around hi quote, criminal parties, but stilstl didn t provide any evidence to prove it. it also warned that t releasinthgs team the affidavit would give trump and his team the opportunity to flee t or destroy evidence stord electronically and otherwise fleed . on really, trump s plane has hisan name on itde and destroyhing electronic evidence. do they mean doing something like, i don t know, deleting lit thirty three thousand emails?