down claims by trump s attorney that this was a case about records that belonged to trump saying that the documents were not his to have. for her part, judge kennan is at times inclined to order a review of documents into a a special master. quote, justice department attorneys repeatedly pleaded with cannon not to interrupt their ongoing criminal probe that the search warrant excused on august 8th was clearly valid and authorized to obtain evidence of three significant federal crimes. cannon said she was concerned about a couple of instances in which the investigative team had flagged potentially privileged material that was not screened out during the initial review of records. that s the team that was assigned to prevent such occurrences. judge cannon did say that she would unseal a more detailed list by agents at mar-a-lago meaning that we could learn a whole lot more about that extraordinary search. while we await, it is important to put it in broader context. new york
meaning that we could learn a whole lot more about that extraordinary search. while we await, it is important to put it in broader context. new york times puts it like this, while the underlying investigation has immense legal and political consequence e the issue being debated at the proceeding is a fairly procedural one. the appointment of a potential master could potentially delay the process of reviewing the trove of materials that investigators carried away from mar-a-lago on august 8th and it would be uncliekly to derail the inquiry into whether trump illegally held on to national security papers at his beachfront property or obstructed attempts by examiners to retrieve them. the justice department and the twice-impeached ex-president facing off in federal court today is where we begin with some of our favorite reporters and friends. betsy woodruff swann, national correspondent for politico and also an msnbc contributor.
well, a growing number of democrats are publicly supporting the impeachment inquiry, most republicans are standing by the president. their tweets of support didn t go unnoticed by trump, who was quick to share their messages this morning. but as the washington post s aaron blake notes of the whistle-blower complaint, quote, senator mitt romney says it s troubling in the extreme. senator pat toomey says it s inappropriate. senator ben sasse, who has now reviewed the complaint, says it s, quote, really troubling. getting tougher for gop to argue there is no there there. joining us now, tim o brien and eugene robinson. eugene, yes, the conventional wisdom all along has been if the democrats were ever to get the votes to impeach trump in the
house, surely it would just result in an acquittal in the senate on a party line vote. there s not going to be any kind of republican exodus from the trump camp. some of those comments tonight, especially i know sasse, who reviewed the whistle-blower s complaint and who recently received trump s endorsement for his re-election campaign, seemed to have been cultivating trump in recent months, certainly raising some eyebrows in terms of unusual things to hear republicans saying about the president. those are unusual words from republicans. i don t know why they should be. i don t know how anybody could look at what we saw this morning, that memo, partial transcript, whatever you call it, and not say it s inappropriate or troubling. those are very mild words, yet they are practical little bombshells coming from these republican senators because generally speaking, there has been total lockstep support of
again, he sets the very same problems in motion again. the investigation was spurred by an inquiry into whether trump and his team had colluded with russians to tip the 2016 election. the next day he solicits a favor from the head of the foreign government in the ukraine to help trump overcome a political opponent in the 2020 election. this isn t new behavior for trump. he did this throughout his business career. he has never learned from his mistakes, and he s been insulated often from the consequences of his own mistakes first by wealth, then by celebrity, and now by the powers of the presidency. and it s given him, in addition to his own i think his own psychology, he feels infallible. he doesn t really regret any mistakes, and he plows ahead. he s also wildly ill-informed, and all of these thing coales d coalesced, i think, into a perfect storm around this call. and like yosemite sam, he s now