really the stuff that nightmares are made of. tigger s lawyered up. tigger s lawyered up and they re not allowed to use the likeness of tigger yet in any new films. new day continues right now. a high stakes showdown in a florida courtroom begins just hours from now. i m brianna keilar with john berman. and this is a critical moment in the battle over sensitive documents recovered from mar-a-lago. the issue, whether a special master will be appointed to oversee the evidence that was seized from donald trump s beach house by the fbi. trump is demanding one. the government insists there is no need for one. a judge will hear arguments from both sides at 1:00 p.m. eastern. a filing a couple of days ago from the department of justice, they argued the appointment of a
writer for boston globe. thank you all so much. i am a hand-rubbing meme tonight. joyce, i m going to start with you. i think one of the most important things that we re hearing about right now is the two secret service agents who have lawyered up, okay? in the history of i guess investigations and secret service hearings, how serious is it that secret service agents are afraid to testify to a committee that doesn t really have enforcement power but they nevertheless still feel the need to get lawyers? so all pump the brakes on that just a little bit, jason, to this extent. a a criminal investigation by the ig has been announced. it makes good sense for anyone who is within the ambit of that investigation to have legal counsel representing them. what s a little bit unusual is the notion that they have hired private counsel. typical they might go to the
cassidy hutchinson s story about what trump did in the limo. but they refuse to go under oath to give that testimony. this is adding to the secret service really needs to be looked into, and their allegiances and loyalty here really need to be questioned. elie staying with the january 6th committee, we heard from katelyn polantz, revisiting the idea of trying to get testimony from the former president, former vice president and written responses, that s an option here. are there pitfalls specifically of trying to get those answers on paper instead of in person? yeah, victor, you re not going to get much out of a person like mike pence in responses. in all likelihood all the committee would get back from that is a bunch of lawyered up, noncommittal responses. think back to the mueller investigation, when that team decided not to subpoena donald trump, but instead to send him a bunch of written questions which
about that many times. calling brad raffensperger. he was directly involved with attempts to overturn this election, now he appears to be attempting to influence the testimony of witnesses. again, i don t know with the doj is going to do. boy this really smells to high heaven! i m glad you said that, that s a reaction for most people. we said, there we go charlie what do you think? people are like man, again! this guy! like what s! i don t look, i just know, the basic smell test. anybody else has done this sort of thing. i guarantee, to the department of justice would be crawling up their backside. and they would be all lawyered up, and they would be probably awaiting indictment right now. but this guy, i guess he s a former president. he seems he has a lot of we will see if that lasts. doug? no? there was no crime committed here yet. look, it does smell to high
both can be true, right. i m on the phone with dps every day, but i m not responsive to their requests. in a statement, he said, we ve been on the phone every day. when i hear that from my experience, that sounds to me like me and my lawyer. i don t know if he s lawyered up. but my guess is that he has. so it s not fair to the victims families here to be retraumatized again as they continue to wonder whether the chief of the school police department is even fully responsive in cooperating. my gut tells me he is not and dps would not be telling us that if it weren t accurate. i sense frustration there. the other thing i m increasingly frustrated with is now the news he s been sworn in to his elected his position on the city council. we need to first thing out whether he served his community well as on-scene commander that day before he is permitted, in my opinion, to serve his