complying with that pretty straightforward request, appears to be something that no one on trump s team seems willing to do. and hey can you blame them. joining us now is barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan, barb, thank you so much for being here. this is file this development under most surprisingly spread something our. trump s lawyers don t want to have to formally signed an affidavit saying they believe in what their client was saying. my question to you, what is the practical implication of contempt of court? when we talk what team trump here? yeah, in this context, where they re actually seeking consent against the office of the former president. perhaps because they can t figure out who is the person who is the custodian of records, because donald trump also designate someone as the custodian of records. so when it is an entity like this, close to an individual person, you can t really jailed a person to course their compliance. instead,
justice department wants a sworn in which instrument from trump s lawyers attesting to the fact that all over documents have been returned. complying with that pretty straightforward request, appears to be something that no one on trump s team seems willing to do. and hey can you blame them. joining us now is barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan, barb, thank you so much for being here. this is file this development under most surprisingly spread something our. trump s lawyers don t want to have to formally signed an affidavit saying they believe in what their client was saying. my question to you, what is the practical implication of contempt of court? when we talk what team trump here? yeah, in this context, where they re actually seeking consent against the office of the former president. perhaps because they can t figure out who is the person who is the custodian of records, because donald trump also designate someone of the custodian of recor
arbiter requested by team trump to sift through all the documents and slow down the process the, special master raymond dearie is officially off the job. after the 11th circuit struck down the special master s appointment last week we were all waiting around to see if the former president would appeal or ask the court to temporarily halt its decision while trump s teams are gutted six new. today, trump made it official. no appeal. which, given its record thus far is worth noting. team trump is actually gonna accept defeat here. now, as a result of this the justice department will be able to access 13,000 government records that they seized from mar-a-lago. things finally seemed to be moving along here at last. and, yet there is still the unanswered question about whether there are more documents out there. it is an open question and it is a pressing one, the justice department spelled it in court filings how remains concerned that more classified records
mandi be missing. then we have reports that a top doj official rescheduling from this, fall essentially saying, we don t think are trump gave us back everything. and the doj has really good reason to be concerned here. remember that in may the doj subpoena team trump for all remaining classified records. the next, month government officials took a field trip to mar-a-lago to meet with trump s attorneys to see about those missing documents, and it was at that meeting that trump lawyer christina bob signed a sworn statement that the best of her knowledge there was no more classified documents at mar-a-lago. which was totally untrue. the fbi would end up writing the president speech club a few months later, and finding a lot more classified documents. and that trump lawyer, christina, bob she yourself has now lawyered up. she is no longer involved in defending trump from investigations, and is yourself reportedly under scrutiny from the department of justice. yesterday, the washington pos
place. investigators now say they are pursuing two theories. right wing extremists in online forums encouraging attacks on critical infrastructure. and potentially related theory about attacks in the local lgbtq population. now, we don t know for sure what motivated that attack. but here is what we do know. since january, the department of homeland security has been ringing the alarm about the rising threat of right-wing domestic extremist attacking the u.s. power grid. after trump lost the 2020 election, the fbi began warning that white supremacists online had begun disco shooting up power grids in order to create unrest. with the eventual goal of creating a, quote, fascist society. that was more than just idle chatter. in august of 2021. a group of neo-nazis and idaho were charged with plotting to attack power stations in the northwest. in february of 2022, three more right-wing extremists pleaded guilty to terrorism charges after conspiring to attack the u.s. power grid and, in the