and everything was fine. they wouldn t allow me inside anywhere. so i had to stand out in the heat for, i don t know, eight to eight hours or so,ll maybe nine hours. and so eventually they wereyki kind and offer me water because i was out there. but i , i would havehe appreciated the opportunity to wait in the air conditioning. didunit did they give you the inventory list before they left or while b they were doing the raid that they don tt want to raid right. the raidid we do have the inventory list, as you can expect. it s e not particularly helpful. so yes, i kind of have the list. they gave me the official receipttth. but you re going to give it to us tonight. you know, we re happy we rewe happy to we re happy to talk about 40 minutes on the show. yeah, well, i would love to. christina, we w really appreciae your joininge. yo you re a young lawyeru and you were put in a one of the most historic and i think egregious abuses of federal authority that i ve seen in my legal career a l
general s decision to not just speak publicly about the search at mar-a-lago, but also to move to unseal the warrant and the inventory list of the items that were seized? you know, watching the press conference by the attorney general, i was surprised by the unsealing. the rest of the comments were very consistent with what i might have expected in terms of simply confirming that he authorized the search so that the american people don t come to the conclusion we have a rogue agency here and rogue agents operating at the department of justice. and so i think that he also confirmed the fact that this was done as sort of a last resort and that typically as you know you ask for the information and then you try to get the information through a subpoena. i think he confirmed that they typically would go through less intrusive means. in terms of the move to unseal, do you think it s the right move? there are those who are saying,
also the house judiciary, as i mentioned. i m wondering what your reaction is to attorney general garland s statement today and his move to unseal the warrant and inventory list from the search of mar-a-lago? i thought it was very smart. actually, the department kept the fact of the execution of the warrant secret. it was the former president himself who announced it. so, therefore, they don t need to protect, you know, that information. he released it. and here s the concern. in addition, tremendous public interest in this, as you know. but there is also some rhetoric among some of my colleagues that i think is dangerous. for example, paul gosar said the fbi raid on trump s home tells us one thing, failure is noot a option. we must destroy the fbi. we must save america. there are there was an
obviously, the amendment was not invoked, and, there has been public reporting that i won t go into this testimony, but reporters and alike that it was discussed that ultimately did not happen. you are also on the house judiciary committee, as i mentioned. i wonder what your reaction is to attorney general mark garland statement today and his move to unseal the warrant an inventory list for the search a mar-a-lago? i thought it was very smart. actually, the department kept the fact of the execution of the warmth secret. it was the former president himself who announced it. therefore, they don t need to protect that information. he released it. here is the concern. it is tremendous public interest in this, as you know, but there is also some rhetoric among some of my colleagues that i think is dangerous.
target of any other criminal investigation believed to be in a lawful possession of highly classified information in places where that information had no place being. so the warrant has now been officially unsealed. we got our hands on the warrant, the inventory list, about an hour ago. now the judge in south florida has officially unsealed that document. what do you make of the the speed with which all of this has happened? the judge said yesterday you have until 3:00 p.m. friday, trump team, to respond to the doj, to object if you want to. that was about 24 hours. and now getting this out within an hour, are you reading into the judge wanting this out there quickly? well, the judge set a reasonable deadline. i m surmising from your statement that trump actually didn t file anything with the court he did not so you know, the president as is his practice decided to try