they wait? nick, i want to come back on this point. laura, on your end the fact bill barr is coming out pretty forcefully against trump on fox news i wonder what message this might send. keep in mind as we all know this is someone who s written a book, not necessarily going to be invited to thanksgiving dinner of the former president there. they re potentially persona non grata to one another, but how does this come across politically? there have been a lot of i shouldn t say a lot. there are have been a number of republicans similar to barr trying to caution against rallying to trump s side in wake of the mar-a-lago search. they ve tried to say that there s a lot of information that we don t know here including potentially how extensive this breach was, how many people, you know, potentially had access to these documents. was it a small handful?
anything like that during the hillary clinton saga. this was you took the documents to an location and continually to willfully detain them despite the fact you were supposed to give them back over. that s what puts him in criminal liability. interesting fact. we turn to you, laura, because i love your flame, laura. and i want to ask you about the political implications as well. tying trump possibly to the mishandling, the possession and his counsel potentially confirmed, yes, he had them and they may be overdue library books. what does it mean politically? because you have to remember much of the january 6th hearings. are the republicans following along? republicans seem to be rallying around at least a strong faction of republicans rallying around the former president. but politically you d have to think this would harm republicans running in swing states across the country simply because of the fact we saw what happened in 2020 where a lots of