correspondent, andrea mitchell. former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official, chuck rosenberg, now an msnbc contributor. former assistant u.s. attorney and associate independent counsel for the white water investigation, kim whaley, and clint watts, now an msnbc national security analyst. so, ken, what are we learning here about the case that the doj laid out in this affidavit? lindsey, a couple of pig takeaways. one, the doj saying that there are multiple civilian witnesses whose identities they want to protect in this case. not one single informant or confidential source, but many, many people, and that s why they ve asked for all of those names and identities to be redacted. secondly, we re learning new details about the extent of how classified some of the documents were that were found in the origin 15 boxes that were turned over by the trump folks to the archives in january. and it looks like they are some of the most classified documents you can have in the u.s. gove
committee. congresswoman, thank you for joining us. there s a lot we want to get to, but first, want to talk to you about your reaction to the affidavit, the redacted copy released in the fbi s search of mar-a-lago. well, at first, i was relieved that a thorough scrubbing was made, so that witnesses and the theory of the case were not revealed, so that the investigation won t be thwarted. i think there s some interesting information. it really lays out how diligent the government from the federal records people to the doj were in trying to get this material voluntarily and how they were thwarted. i think we will learn a lot more as time goes on. one interesting thing to me was the indication that the former president had his handwriting on some of these documents. so clearly, he knew that they
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because we don t know where their investigation will take them, i, too, have spoke within fbi agents and former fbi agents who have done a myriad of investigations who said it could take longer should they start finding something that points them in another direction so i hope you are right we get to the bottom of this. be k bakari, should there be some kind of deadline? or constriction on this information? that s political speak. i think jack serving in the united states congress, myself serving in the state legislature we understand when people put out artificial deadlines. if the fbi comes across something on thursday afternoon or wednesday afternoon that needs to be investigated, this investigation won t be other friday. you won t have someone who has a serious set of improprieties on the united states supreme court because of some artificial
it s kind of the playbook they used in the clinton investigation which is to heap pressure on the justice department, pressure from the conservative media, pressure from the campaign trail, pressure from congress. they know that this investigation won t be shut down, bob mueller will not be fired. rod rosenstein can t do that. just as jim comey gave hem little things that turned out to be big things like that press conference that, had a huge impact, there are going to be big decisions they want to go their way. does problem a subpoena to the president, does problem a report being released to congress, other little things along the way. they want to put just enough pressure maybe some decisions go their way. does that make sense to you, nancy? i think more is going on here. i think there is no way on earth that any credible lawyer would recommend that trump give an interview to mueller. nobody would ever do that. i think they re creating a series of trip wires here so that they c