assuming the committee makes a referral, how does it impact the former president and his alleged presidential campaign? well if he were out campaigning he might be talking about it and claiming he were the victim but since he is not out campaigning very much i don t know how it will affect his campaign. we ve already seen, anderson, in our poll this week, that 6 of 10 republicans, and he is popular with republicans, but 6 of 10 republicans are saying, you know, maybe we ought to think of someone else. this is just one more thing piled on top of lots of other things, the mar-a-lago investigation being one, for example, but i think republicans are starting to kind of look for somebody else. because they re tired of this. elliott, is there a sense for the justice department of a timeline? obviously we don t know the details of where they are at in their investigation. it seems to be ramping up.
republicans, and he is popular with republicans, but 6 of 10 republicans are saying, you know, maybe we ought to think of someone else. this is just one more thing piled on top of lots of other things, the mar-a-lago investigation being one, for example, but i think republicans are starting to kind of look for somebody else. because they re tired of this. elliott, is there a sense for the justice department of a timeline? obviously we don t know the details of where they are at in their investigation. it seems to be ramping up. they will get all the information i assume once it is made public that the select committee has, so any sense of how long an investigation could go on for? the official answer is five years from the commission of the offense, the statute of limitations for most crime. that is how long they have
mar-a-lago investigation, a federal judge on friday declined to hold former president trump in contempt over noncompliance with a subpoena. this investigation is all about whether or not trump or his closest advisers mishandled highly sensitive classified documents and national security documents when they left the white house in january 2021 and brought those materials to mar-a-lago, his resososo and ho in south florida. the criminal investigation has been ongoing for the better part of the last year, and as part of that probe, prosecutors wanted to hold trump in contempt. that s because he did not fully comply with a subpoena that was issued in may that demanded the return of all classified documents. back in may and june, his lawyers handed over some documents, but dozens of additional documents with classification markings were later recovered. the doj wanted to ramp up the pressure and have a judge hold him in contempt, but on friday
proceedings, is a little bit hard to fathom. but it shows that the justice department is still negotiating with the trump team and trying to make sure that they have all the classified documents. as you said, we confirmed that the trump team actually conducted volunteerary searches of trump properties and they found in a storage facility two documents marked classified and turned them over to the fbi. and the implication is that the other searches didn t turn you were any classified documents. but i don t think we can say that definitively. it s a bit of a mystery. but it does show that this mar-a-lago investigation is very much active and the two sides are in active negotiations and disputes. can you pull on that thread for me that ken started out with? do you agree that this contempt could be hard to fathom? well, as i understand it, what it means to me is that they re worried about documents being in places outside of
this week is that trump s lawyers did not ask for a stay of the 11th circuit ruling shutting down the special master because i think that was another limit for them not to make a completely baseless application for a stay that would have, i think, enraged the court. ken, what does that lack of appeal mean now for this investigation moving forward? it means that the doj gets access to all the documents that the fbi seized at mar-a-lago. they had already gotten access to the classified documents based on the court s earlier imp position of the stay and now they get everything including personal correspondents, tax records, whatever it was that trump had in his office that the doj took. and they said in court papers that getting access to that material would help accelerate this investigation, would help them do their work. and so that s where they are now and it seems pretty obvious the trump team didn t take this any