implication. in terms of the discovery of those documents, once they were discovered, you ve got to call the archives, you ve got to cooperate with the justice department. that is something that donald trump and his lawyers did not do, which created a firestorm, which created a situation where you had to get a search warrant to retrieve those documents. in this case, they ve done everything by the book, and in fact, they probably may have overcorrected by making sure that they cooperate. how do you think they ve overo overcorrected? what do you mean by that? well, there was a washington post article yesterday about how this was handled. i think they did everything by overcorrecting. some lawyers might would have been a little bit more aggressive in terms of trying to get to the bottom of themselves. that s what lawyers do, interviewing witnesses, doing those things. the president s team decided that they would not do that, because they did not want to give the appearance of tampe
the inside, when you have an investigation of this kind, you need to be sensitive as the president s personal lawyer bob bower said yesterday, to the needs of transparency on the one hand, but to preserve the integrity of the investigation on the other. so, for example, if the department of justice is interviewing witnesses, you may not want to make public statements that tip one way or the other that you could be accused of attempting to influence those witnesses. so while in this case, hindsight really is 2020, and some of the criticism is fair, the complexities from the inside, when you re dealing with this are substantial. i also wanted to get your perspective on an attack that i got from a right wing partisan on social media. i asked one of our guests saturday morning about the differences between the trump classified documents case and
bidens, nevertheless will still be true that from the dock you found, wednesday they announced it right away, and then another drift and more documents were found. they re in this kind of trap where they don t know everything. it was the justice department got involved, which i think was eight days after november 2nd discovery of the initial batch, at that point, they weren t able to do their own investigation i believe because the justice department would not want them free interviewing witnesses that the justice department wanted to interview about. what where these documents, who passed what, up how did they get here, where were they before? that would be colluding the investigation, and you try to get the story straight, you re trying to compromise what is true here, or to put the best spin on things. but they will have a full understanding of themselves. there it would all these documents are. there are not many pages there, are they don t know the contents are. and everybody want
of the murder, and even if he did the physical act, did he have forces behind him. and then of course, what s ruby s involvement in this. you had various branches of the investigation traveling, interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence, bringing it back to the commission. the time of day was about, uh, well, we re not but two hours from it. there were questions of how they would deal with the different stories about shooters from the grassy knoll and different directions. they took 395 depositions, and there were 94 witnesses that appeared before the commission. lyndon johnson wants report out so it doesn t interfere with the election in november. warren left for dallas because he was a man who spent his early career as a courtroom prosecutor. he understood a crime scene. he wanted to stand in that
employed down at mar-a-lago who spoke to a grand jury about this west palm beach storage unit, where they ultimately, this outside firm found two classified documents. isn t that enough to get a search warrant at this point to have the doj search that west palm beach storage unit, rather than this other outside firm? it could be, there would have to be probable cause that documents are in that storage locker. it may simply be they identify, you know, there is a storage locker. maybe it isn t there. he keeps stuff in there. stuff came from the white house. it really would have to be, you know, some evidence, reasonable grounds to believe that classified documents are there. my guess is, the justice department is working very hard to develop probable cause to get into all of these places. there s been some reporting they ve been interviewing witnesses and asking witnesses the grand jury questions whether they ever saw donald trump with documents. there was even questions of he would lo