of government records. as of now, we should note no one has been charged with a crime. trump s first line of defense was to baselessly suggest the fbi may have planted evidence while in his home. plan b, trump had declassified documents before the fbi seized them. so they re both declassified and planted. does that make any sense? the espionage act does not hinge on whether documents are classified. the trump team s latest move is to blame a government agency for moving boxes of classified information to mar-a-lago claiming, quote, that s not on the president. now, new this afternoon, the democratic chairs of both the house intelligence and oversight committees have written a letter to the director of national intelligence saying they want a damage assessment and briefing regarding these documents recovered from mar-a-lago, whether they posed some sort of national security risk to the country. joining me to talk about this is the former director of national intelligence, jame
this properly, and in part, because of people this properly, and in part, because of people actually reading it, recording all the opinions, which you could recording all the opinions, which you could do under certain other circumstances, was not really a realistic circumstances, was not really a realistic or circumstances, was not really a realistic or sensible proposition. but we realistic or sensible proposition. but we did try, and this i think is really but we did try, and this i think is really critical, sir patrick and thou, really critical, sir patrick and thou, tried to reflect the range of views thou, tried to reflect the range of views when we were briefing ministers, to the best availability. we try ministers, to the best availability. we try to ministers, to the best availability. we try to capture the fact that there we try to capture the fact that there were outlier opinions, i don t mean there were outlier opinions, idon t mean that there
like the crowds are perhaps smaller. he s not technically running for president now. i don t know what a big crowd is at an event like this. i would like to think there are people who are getting unnerved by these ideas, it no longer holds its sway, but what i am noticing when i m talking to people is the rhetoric is stronger, it s angrier, it s wilder than ever before and the last one we went to, honestly, it s back in the midwest, it s in wisconsin. we ve been there before, and usually you get these outlier opinions, every five or six people you talk to, and this one, everybody was dialled in to straight conspiracy, and the baseline about the election being stolen was already so far into a wild place. we came home, and our jobs were on the ground. if this is where maga is right now, it s in a scary place, and it seems to have hold over the party in a way that i would be shocked in a what happens next