it s also a strategic appeal. just for perspective here, we remember doj seized 11,000 documents out of mar-a-lago. they don t like the special master ruling as to any of it. they lost on all 11,000 documents. what they re doing is saying okay, let s carve out the most important to us doj 100 of those documents. they ve given up on there being a special master for the other 10,900 other documents but with respect to those classified documents, those should not go to the special master, we should be able to use them in the criminal investigation and national security investigation, by doing that they limited the upside and won t get the special master kicked out all together but limited their downside because if you take an appeal and lose on the whole thing in the 11th circuit, that s really bad for doj and sets a worse precedent for doj so i think they re trying to be tactical and strategic in what they re choosing to go after here. this whole process is getting dragged ou
they have to show knowledge in any perjury case, you have to show the person that knowingly made a false statement elie, go with me. the documents you can do that. but the documents are at mar-a-lago. it s like saying i don t know how these drugs got here but they re in my house but i don t know who brought them in. it could have been that person but i you own that property therefore it is in your property and that is they re in your position, you go to jail. well, let s stay with that analogy, though. that s a really good analogy. let s say you live in a house with 12 other people, apartment building, common house with 12 other people. you can t arrest and indict all 12 people no, who knew who to possessed them. you live in the house not necessarily. elie, really? not unless prosecutors can prove you knew it. let s say you have a large family.
buttigieg in those small-dollar donations. and right now, this is kind of new ground for political observers because we haven t seen candidates raise this competitively by leaning so forcefully on small-dollar donations. the fact that former vice president biden is being outraised in multiple corridors shows that there is a question to be answered here. all right. senator cory booker. with a very clear message to everyone right now. here it is oh, let me read it. sorry. thought it was going to play. to those democrats who are looking for an alternative right now, i want to make the case today very directly look no further. he is basically saying to biden supporters, you want to hedge your bet, go with me. right. and look, this is the bet that both the booker campaign and other campaigns have been making lately which is that as biden struggles, as he s shown that he
talk more about it in our crime and consequences segment in 20 minutes. the clock is still ticking toward a midnight deadline to avert a partial government shutdown but the pressure s gone down just a little bit. that s john boehner s way of saying both parties in both houses have agreed on a trillion dollar spending package. now they just have to vote on it. the house will vote first. then start its holiday recess. the senate will vote after that. and will try to agree on extending a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. if it does, the house will come back to vote on that. stay tuned. ballistics and fingerprint analysis now links oscar ortega hernandez to the rifle used to fire bullets at the white house last month according to new court filings. the 21-year-old from idaho is being charged with attempting to assassinate the president. ortega is in washington today for a hearing on whether he should undergo more missile testing to determine if he is competent to s