i mean, these are documents that belong to the government. they should have been left behind. he has not come up with any justification as to why he had the right to have these documents. he claimed at one point recently that he declassified them, but he never made that argument in the course of, oh, two years or year and a half of wrangling back and forth with national archives official, doj officials before they finally executed the search warrant. so it seems like that argument is has just been made up after the fact, and he s come up with no explanation. and i might add, i don t recall one being given to the judge in the most recent filing about the special master and the declassification process. but you have to wonder, bradley, you think about this. certainly it would be easier to have given documents back, not take them in the first place. but the idea of retaining council, going through all this, having the back and forth, it
in a storage room. this december despite one of his lawyers telling the government they ve given everything back before that search. now agents found government documents mixed in with personal items like gifts and clothing. there are also dozens of empty folders that were marked as classified. i want to bring in cnn s sara murray, political analyst laura barone lopez, and nick akerman, and also we have national security attorney bradley moss. a great panel to talk about this very important issue. i want to begin with you here, sara. you ve been going through the inventory documents from this mar-a-lago search. tell me what is standing out to you? well, i mean, certainly it s the volume. they say there are 11,000 government documents that are not classified. but also, when you dig in to the classified documents you, have you 103 documents. we re now learning that amounts to hundreds of pages in these documents. but 18 of those are top secret. 54 are secret. 31 are confidential.
vulnerable like mansion and jones, but keep an eye on people in the republican side, people who aren t thrilled with the president like mitt romney and susan collins, they re likely to be happy with the president did here, depending of how this trials goes, if it becomes a media circus, lift on the witnesses, additional information from all bets are off. mike: tom, final thoughts from you? i think speaker pelosi has to submit these articles impeachment, she has a hot potato in her hands, but i don t think time is her friend. i think the longer she holds this thing and refuses to allow the senate to fulfill its constitutionally ordained role, more and more americans are simply going to say, why on earth did we go through this whole exercise of impeachment, nancy pelosi is going to keep it to herself at the end of the day? mike: all right, gentlemen, do leave it there. tom, bradley, thank you so much. thank you. mike: breaking tonight, and at anti-semitic attack in new york cit
the constitutional role of the senate. she has tried as speaker of the house, into the process that under the constitution is solely set aside for the united states senate, namely to try the impeachment of a president. mike: new reaction tonight to the democrats decision to hold the articles of impeachment from the senate, at least for now. helping us dig a little deeper into this issue tonight, national security attorney bradley moss. former deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree. gentleman, great to have you. thanks for being here. because good evening mike. mike: tom, it strikes me that the democrats all of the power in the house, not as much in the senate. she overreaching? by that, i mean speaker pelosi. i do think she is overreaching, mike. for one thing, you re absolutely right, the initial phase of impeachment, it s the house s prerogative to decide whether or not to impeach the president. the constitution says the sole power to try impeachment, however, is vest
listen to then-minority leader pelosi on the house floor in 1998 talking about president bill clinton s house impeachment. we are setting a precedent that we and i believe we shouldn t be frivolous in how we go forward in punishing a president was politics we don t approve of because of a personal indiscretion on his part. shannon: joining me now, national security attorney bradley moss and from the acl jay, author of the brand-new book the next right away, jordan secular, great to have you both with us tonight. thanks, shannon. shannon: bradley, your name s been out there, one of your partners is working with the whistle-blower, you are completely walled off, not involved in the case, so free to speak about this issue more generally. correct. if only for no other reason than there is no one else to speak out for this whistle-blower because the whistle-blower is doing what he or she is supposed to do. they are keeping quiet, they are not going public, they are not violati