him. quote, the biden administration will not allow president trump to assert executive privilege and consequently he has to no. right to possess presidential documents and that therefore he has no standing to object to the seizure. it is all contrary to the well-established doctrine of standing. it is the reasonable expectation of privacy in one s home that triggers the obvious standing of the homeowner to contest search of those premises. joining us now, senior correspondent for yahoo news, michael weiss. thanks for joining us this morning. give us your sense of this back and forth here, between the department of justice and the trump legal team. we know that president biden did not, is not saying that executive privilege applies here, for a former president. we also know the law requires that former presidents return government material, particularly classified document. we think this has, do we think this has any shot of leading the trump team to their desired
this year eight months after that that the national archives was finally able to retrieve a batch of records that trump improperly took with him from the white house, one of the most secure locations in the entire world, to mar-a-lago, donald trump s private residence and a resort that regularly owes events for a revolving door of people, including foreign politicians. according to the affidavit, the national archives received 15 boxes of government material in that first batch, earlier this year. and 14 of those 15 boxes, officials found a total of 184 unique document documents, with classification markings. 25 of them marked top secret, 92 mark secret, 67 marked confidential curiously, some of those documents contained handwritten notes that trump is believed to have added after his time in office. he can t do that. most alarmingly, some of those documents were also marked hcs,
you want to know this is well-kept secret in d.c., everybody knows it, the biggest culprit is stopping advanced nuclear energy, industrial complex they don t want to lose stranglehold on the economy. they call it a defense economy to bring privatization into the nuclear market. thankfully by work by republicans, staff members on capitol hill, we have a bill passed last year, year before, will allow government material in reactors to be used to test innovative private sector nuclear technology, from it we ll probably have an opportunity to get, affordable and clean nuclear energy which ask france, works out really well. will: partner in green energy movement also opposed to nuclear energy as well. if you re looking for uninterrupted energy supply you would be in support of one that is not at competition with other nations so you support nuclear energy. shows hypocrisy.
act. on top of that, the material they recovered include boxes that contain top secret documents. this is in addition to the other sets the boxes at the national archives took back earlier this year. that also included classified documents. we do not know for sure what kinds of things are in those boxes of government material. if they really are top secret documents dealing with national security including nuclear matters. we may never find out. but it raises concerns about the counter intelligence and national security risks that this country has been exposed to in the last 18 months. that those documents have been stored at the former presidents home. this is an unprecedented situation in american history. yet, donald trump only seems to care about one thing. donald trump. he s been quick to play the victim of this one. he s repeatedly called the investigation political persecution. which is actually completely characteristic of him. but his angry rhetoric has been echoed throughout
work-related e-mails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile acc tours gained access to secretary clinton s personal e-mail account. sean: hostile regimes had access to tom secret classified information. she allowed that to happen and she was not held accountable. so let s be very clear here. if you re hillary clinton and put your country at risk, you re going to get a free pass. if you re jim comey, you leak confidential government material to a friend, to the media mob, you get a free pass. if you re a high ranking trump hating bureaucrat who lies to a fisa court, you ll also get a free pass. if you re a top fbi investigator who vows to use his power to stop a free and fair election, we ll stop it, we ve got an insurance policy, you will a get a pass also. if you re hunter biden, you can sell access to the federal government, to china, to russia, to ukraine, and even implicate your own father, the big g