crackerjack defense team is the fact that today is the deadline, i believe, the legal team representing donald trump, today is the last day they had to file their papers, requesting a special master, an independent third party review of the materials seized on an early august by the doj. according to the trump appointed judge, they did it wrong. they did not file that request correctly. do you have confidence in donald trump s legal representation at this juncture? well, the document they filed on monday was so amateurish. it was in the wrong court. it didn t file alleged cause of action. it failed to provide service. they didn t explain why it wasn t related to another case. and so, no. that is a very shoddy lawyering. but it seems that he s having a difficult time, finding someone to represent, tempo may be able to handle this in a more
becoming president, and just threw the boxes into the basement of first. he spent months slowly going through it and deciding what he was or wasn t going to turn over to the national archives. i don t see any indication yet that any of these records that are of concern are in any of his other resorts or properties. you seem pretty final in your judgment about what is going to happen here. i know you have a piece in the daily beast today, the headline, it is over trump will be indicted. you seem quite certain there, can you talk a little bit more about that? sure, a caveat that with, it is very much my personal opinion and only my personal opinion, just based off my professional expertise and experience. it is no one else s experience. from the information we have seen, specifically what was made clear in the on sealed, productive part of this
had already gone into them and thrown stuff in there and taken stuff out. we know that there were records classified properly classified records found in different parts of mar-a-lago, the former president s residence and his bedroom closet. things like that, they re trying to get a sense of where all these things came from, how they got there and what amount of knowledge trump himself, as well as his lawyers and immediate staff had and knew about what was going on. that is not only the espionage provision in terms of this unauthorized retention, that is the obstruction provision. that is why they tried to redact these names, and why the judge upheld it because to reveal that would put those individuals at particular risk of intimidation. it goes without saying that trump does not like leaks. throughout the trump presidency, there was a myriad of freak outs in the white house whenever there was information leaked from the white house, no matter how significant that information was or
i think would stick your head in the sand during this and listened to their attorneys, but that has not been the way that trump has reacted at all. we re gonna talk to you more about how republicans are reacting and whether indeed they are rallying around him. but i m gonna give you a short break, luke broadwater from the new new york times, we have more taught to talk to you. but up next, the affidavit also says the doj had probable cause to think there was evidence of obstruction of mar-a-lago. and if so, that is a familiar charge laid against them trump. barb mcquade joins us next. and later, new reporting today about a woman who literally talked her way into mar-a-lago, and how that demonstrates exactly how easy it is to get into that club. we will be right back. i just want to know, i ve declassified everything in the
of july. what does that tell you? well, it does suggest that they had to have some reason to know that there was something amiss, but they wanted to see what might have been revealed on the surveillance video. what it says to me is, perhaps there is a witness within mar-a-lago, one or more witnesses who have indicated to them in witness interviews that people were going in and out of those rooms, removing some of those boxes. it is also noteworthy alex, that in the affidavit we saw today, they believe that they had probable cause to search, not just the storage room, but also something known as the residential sweet. i assume that s where trump lives. something called the pine room, and something called the 45 office. so, it looks like from those words that those boxes were moved and scattered around other places in the residence. even if they had a padlock on the storage room, there is certainly great concern about them being stored in other places in the residence. it seems like th