john: grover, this was jonathan turley on yesterday talking about this being reminiscent of the lois lerner case. reminds you of the whole lois lerner controversy during a prior democratic administration, a lot of concern about conservative groups who were targeted. the irs and lerner herself admitted that was a mistake, but then she pled the fifth and refused to testify. sandra: so what do you think happened here, grover? it s obvious that they sent an irs agent out to harass a journalist and this is a journalist, by the way, who was praised by bernie sanders as somebody who stood up to power. he wrote a book criticizing trump. this is a very left of center progressive journalist and reporting how the government was abusing twitter and censoring
hillary clinton and her shenanigans, and i don t remember a raid on her home. no, look, there were classified documents that were in the possession of hillary clinton. not only did she have them in a nonclassified setting, she destroyed them. in the irs case i issued a subpoena trying to get the documents that were surrounding the lowest lois lerner case and the irs never looked at them. that was the conclusion of the inspector general, and even though they were under subpoena, they were destroyed. nobody was prosecuted let alone, you know, a raid on the house of john and the irs commissioner or hillary rodham clinton. they never did any of that. they barely lifted a finger. so i think one of the key questions is where they under subpoena, but i got to tell you, my experience with donald trump s he s as open and transparent as anybody that we ever interacted with. your member the very beginning of the trump presidency he met with then prime minister abe and there was all this how b
president trump in the hopes that will do something that will further validate the left s fantasy about the kind of guy he is. the fact is he did nothing wrong, he s cooperated, and for his trouble and you just heard eric say this, the trump family has been persecuted more than any presidential family and history. and i just want to repeat, if they can do this to a farmer and potentially future president, what can they do to you or your cousin or your friends or your neighbors? and i think it s a very scary step towards a police state eliminating the constitution as a real document. sean: when you add, for example, the treatment of peter navarro in his case where talk about a misdemeanor, mr. speaker. you ve been around washington for a long enough time, some but he a misdemeanor, they have a lawyer, the lawyer is contacted, have your client report at this time at this place. you don t make a scene at an
can be normal in this respect that the russia field office may have more evidence about the case, may know c more what they re looking, but cantarg do a more targeted. song that s not necessarily the things the fact that the investigation originated with an office thatic is currently dealing with political tamperingst allegations. and it s very important. when chris wray was asked aboutd this h, he said he found what hs office did was very deeply troubling. not troubling enough to stop the agents from raiding the president today. but thisod is about the whistle blowing and the less well connected to the whistleblowerta charles grassley was talking about last week. that s right. that s s. those allegations that chris wray was reacting to. he called those allegations very troubling. heg removed the assistant special agent in charge ofre the washington field office and here they are in the field in action against the presidente . one of the peoplebl the whistleblowers said was inappropria
trump was actually at trump tower in new york city. you re seeingg a picture of him there. the former president announced the raid this evening callingsis his dark timeses for our nation as his home was being raided and quote, occupied by a large group of fbi agents. sean. is there any explanation as to why they didn t just try to cooperate t or get the president and his staff to cooperate and go through the boxes in a partnership and case maybe something inadvertently that was classified was put in thosew those boxes? because i doubt i bet a lot of money boxes? because i doubt i d bet a loton of money that donald trump didal not pack his own boxes. mike emanuel very scarce to tell. an interesting point you are making there. what we know is there thinking that some documents were made at marar a lago, but there are o indications that there was any kind of cooperation or outreach by the fbi to officials connected to the former president. and so we know the raid happened today. the for