like a public relations problem by former president trump, and by his lawyers, in some ways their legal arguments have had success. and that is in some ways giving the sort of push for other republicans to continue to support him, even as this gets to be more more challenging for him. glenn, you just said it, what trump is doing in terms of the defence is playing parlor games. we re five weeks out, i know i said it before, and still, we have heard nothing about why he took the documents, why he kept the documents, and why he lied about having them. instead, what he is doing is giving these cockamamie defenses about what was classified or not classified, now the presidential records act. what is he doing? you know, steph, can you imagine any other former president who had in his possession or in his head information that could protect our national security, and that former president just sat back, folded his arms, and said i am
that the doj is any closer to charging trump. but we know of course the of former attorney general bill barr, i don t want former president trump to be charged. but just looking at this bill that barr released, they are getting closer and closer to having evidence to invite him. and the question, if it was anybody else, the question is, yes. and that record, yes. but there s also the politics of, this which is what i am focusing on, when i m reporting on. and it is this idea that while this is sort of being treated like a public relations problem by former president trump, and by his lawyers, in some ways their legal arguments have had success. and that is in some ways giving the sort of push for other republicans to continue to support him, even as this gets to be more more challenging for him. glenn, you just said it, what trump is doing in terms of the defence is playing parlor games. we re five weeks out, i know i said it before, and still, we have heard nothing about why he took
laura: are you excited because we re just hours away from the deadline to unsealed a redacted mar-a-lago rated affidavit. magistrate judge bruce reinhardt, sorry, i can t believe is a magistrate, has given the doj until noon tomorrow. joining me now is mike davis, former clerk for supreme justice neil gorsuch. even though the affidavit is getting released, the reductions will render it meaningless? why the parlor games? this is going to be a political game because think about it this way. president trump had the absolutely constitutional right to declassify anything he wanted to. the right to declare personal record of him. he took records to mar-a-lago declassified personal and some of the records included the
write off the republican candidate just because they are down in the polls. this is very early in an election cycle and we have not gotten the labor in here to this is typical washington, d.c., fodder. everybody wants to play the parlor games, but what really matters is what happens past when we get past labor day and when these republicans come home. sean: will have early voting in october. he will have early voting in october. charlie hurt, how do you sit on the election? finish your thought, robert. yes, roberts polls are the only polls i trust for any race out there, but you are exactly right about today s spirit in particular in the senate, the republicans face a very, very difficult uphill challenge if they win in a place like pennsylvania, that is a hold. so they have an uphill fight there. and republicans better fight. sean: hard as a hold, hold on, charlie. ohio is a hold, north carolina is a hold.
period of time between now and the midterms. i don t think we should be engaging in this kind of parlor games because it s maybe fun to do but it s not fun it doesn t get anything done. and do you think it s a good idea for the democratic party to be going out there or democratic-aligned groups to be going out there and pumping up the more far right candidates and some of these republican primary races that we ve seen across the country? we ve seen some democrats say that s a bad idea. i think it s a bad idea. i don t like that. it s feeding more right-wing propaganda out there. it s, i think i don t think we should be doing that. i understand the tactic, you think up get a right-wing nut you can beat. i understand that.