the the motion to unseal this search warrant and the inventory list. all right. we ve got the stuff that we were talking about at 2:00 p.m. confirmed. the top secret information, the compartment information that was found at mar-a-lago, what is your reaction? i mean, katy, my reaction is that everything fits together now. the basis for probable cause set forth in the application for a search warrant is that there was a violation of section 7 of title 18 which is the criminal code of the united states, it is the section comprising the espionage act. which includes subsection making it a crime to be in unlawful possession of information relating to the national defense or nda. and this is a statute that i oversaw several prosecutions of. sometimes of disgruntled former
able to tell the court exactly what the position of donald trump and his attorneys would be on whether or not he believes they should be released. merrick garland clearly previously said that this would be in the public interest. but we just don t know what position trump will take. he has a couple options here. one, he could, as you said, release this warrant himself. he could release the inventory list. the receipt that he received at the end of the seizure that his lawyers have. that has always been an option since monday since they were handed those papers by the fbi. he could also agree to the justice department s motion to release the documents that could totally happen before 3:00. we would imagine that the judge would be watching for that and would act fairly quickly if both sides were in agreement. and then, of course, he could oppose the justice department motion, that could throw us into all kinds of other questions. and then of course we will be watching for what the judge
there was top secret compartmented information that the fbi said it recovered according to the inventory list. does that concern you? of course it does. information is secret for a reason. now sometimes too many things are made secret. but as long as they re secret, we ought to honor that because they re secret on the theory they are harmful to the interest of the united states of america is disclosed. and no one is authorized to take those to their personal home or something of that nature. including a stormer president of the united states. so, we need to see that. now, you said shortly and i ve got to go. but let me say, we re very focused on this but what the american people ought to be focused on what is happening here in washington today on the reduction act of inflation. this is a very meaningful piece
they put it out, what they let the american public know because they wanted to make sure that the american secrets were protected and that is something that you re not seeing if it is just a president snapping his finger saying i hereby declassify this because i want to take it home to mar-a-lago. let s go to steny hoyer who is standing by for us. mr. leader, thank you so much for being us with. i know you want to talk about the ira, which the house is about to vote on in a few minutes. i ll ask you that, but first could i get you re reaction to this unsealed warrant and inventory list? well, it is what it is. and i don t want to overreact to it. i haven t read it. i ve heard the reports of it. but i think the fbi followed protocol. and the judge i m sure made a decision on the fact that he felt or she felt, i forget the gender of the judge, but in any event, whether or not probable cause to proceed was present and obviously the judge made that
had a specific designation such as classified or top secret. it is also unclear whether the d.o.j. team asked at that time for a spifs i can inventory list of those remaining material items being stored. after months of high-level back and forth negligent yaixs between the trump team and the government over potentially classified information, broke down at some point between june and this search on monday. that s why this took place on monday. according to several sources familiar with the search in prior meetings. the former president s team denies this and claims donald trump has been cooperating and happy to turn over the requested material. law enforcement sources claim that is misleading. the former president s son eric told the daily mail the f.b.i. refused to turn over the search warrant that trump s own attorney said she was given. so the trump team apparently has the warrant in some form in custody. federal magistrate judge bruce reinhart signed the warrant. the trump team has