at the podium, there are lot of questions she either can t or won t answer. that is politically difficult for any white house. brendan, what s your take here? republicans are going to go to town with this. but let s remember, donald trump in his documents situation, he took them, he lied about it, he wouldn t return them, he then said they were his, he did have to return them, and then he said he mentally communicated that he declassified them all. that is markedly different than what joe biden has done here. how can republicans turn a blind eye to donald trump and just go gunning for joe biden? i don t disagree with that at all. but i also don t think what donald trump did should be a good standard of whether or not you do things the right way. and look, the white house, and joe biden brought a lot of this on themselves. remember, they learned about this in november before the election, and we re now just learning about it two months later. when we first learned about the response
about politics of this, they re lying. everyone i ve spoken to is concerned, at the very least of the politics. it s not the same as trump but they understand that what this does is takes away that cudgel that biden had to beat trump with and that maybe primary opponents to trump could ve been trump with in terms of the classified documents issue. the details don t always matter, voters not pay that much attention. the other thing our colleagues, peter nikolas in caralee reporting a few minutes ago that some of the discomfort the democrats are starting to feel, whether those involved in public relations, others who spoke to them, this is something the biden white house has been hearing about. if you hear korean jean-pierre at the podium, there are lot of questions she either can t or won t answer. that is politically difficult for any white house. brendan, what s your take here? republicans are going to go to town with this. but let s remember, donald trump in his documents situation
number one, if a democrat tells you they are not worrying about politics of this, they re lying. everyone i ve spoken to is concerned, at the very least of about the politics. they will tell you, it s not the same as trump but they understand that what this does is takes away that cudgel that biden had to beat trump with and that maybe primary opponents to trump could ve been trump with in terms of the classified documents issue. the details don t always matter, to voters not pay that much attention. the other thing our colleagues, reporting a few minutes ago that some of the discomfort the democrats are starting to feel, whether those involved in public relations, others who spoke to them, this is something the biden white house has been hearing about. and if you watch kareen jean pierre at the podium, there are lot of questions she either can t or won t answer. that is politically difficult for any white house. brendan, what s your take here? republicans are going to go to town
partake in the investigation. they want to do bad things to the greatest movement in the history of our country, but in particular, bad things to me but i ve gotten used to it. some of the experts we ve had a chance to speak with frankly think this could work in president trump s favor giving him another way to stir up his base. we will learn a lot more if that turns out in the weeks ahead then we will also probably learn how the former president might try to leverage this for his own political gain. trace: back to you in moments. the former president is getting another special counsel in the current president is getting more questions that he won t answer let s bring in hoover institution senior fellow victor davis hanson. it s always great to see you i wanted to get your take on this tonight because it is good by robert mueller hello jack smith. i wanted to play this sound bite
together for richard d hall. the more extreme the theory, he says, the bigger the audience. what kind of drives people to these more sensational theories is because they re the ones that sell. one of the things that i ve noticed is that the more outrageous and the more bizarre, and the more wacky theories, like, that have zero evidence to back them up, often are the ones that actually get the most traction. neil sanders says while hall may believe these conspiracy theories now, he hasn t always. he says when they first discussed sandy hook, hall didn t think it was a hoax. did he used to believe this stuff when you first started working with him? no, i don t think that richard did believe it, in fact i m sure that i had a conversation with him basically saying, this is all nonsense. is it that way? it s here, it s here. richard hall didn t want to be interviewed and wouldn t answer my questions. ready? yep. so, i paid a visit to the market stall where he sells books and dvds.