top is the fact that a, he went to trial. b, there is violence involved and c, he lied on the stand. i think it was very clear to anyone who was watching that testimony as the jury concluded as the judge concluded, as the prosecution said. that thomas webster was making up a story about what happened that day. you can t watch that video and actually believe the story that he was trying to sell the jury and thankfully they didn t because it was just amazing to see, frankly, a former new york city police officer craft a narrative and try to sell this bs story to a jury that it was actually the other officer who was egging him on. he actually claimed that when he grabbed the officer by the face mask that he was doing that because it was a technical move becausely wanted to make sure that the officer wanted to see his hands and as if it was a stop on the highway and it was a ridiculous, ludicrous story thrown out by webster and that s why we see this record-setting
legal move made by the ex-president donald trump in response to the search of his private residence more than three weeks ago. it s his request for an independent arbiter, a so-called special mast tore review the documents that were seized in that search. lawyers for donald trump and lawyers for the justice department squared off in federal court before judge eileen kenan who said she will issue her statement in due course. attorneys for the ex-president claim that, quote, both sides needed to turn down the temperature in this country, and then one of trump s attorney, jim trusty was dismissive of the entire probe comparing the documents seized to a, quote, overdue library book. attorneys for the justice department revealed that the process of analyzing the documents that were seized is still under way. they argued that a special master will delay that process and an attorney for doj shut
and are covered by the presidential records act or classified documents. i mean, this is a pr move. and nothing. more maggie, give a sense of what the team, who s around the former president, who was involved in these, how did things gets decided in trump world right now, who are s attorneys, what s the process? look, at the end of the day, donald trump is always focused performance s own advisor on everything. and that includes legal issues is obviously not a lawyer. so people can do with that what they. will he likes to find lawyers alike to do what he wants. but he, has understand it which is slow and lying to do everything, he has a handful of lawyers around him in various cases anderson, it s not the only legal fight he s fighting on one is a man name evan
itself. not by somebody who is a former president or anybody else. one part of the filing that stood out to me, as you read it, and really everyone should read it because it really is a lot of insight how the legal team is thinking behind the scenes and what they ve been saying. they say they re critical of the fact that the search warrant was signed off on by this judge on a friday. 15 minutes in the afternoon, but the search wasn t conducted until that following monday. but that s pretty standard, isn t it? highly standard. especially because they seem to have anticipated it would take several hours. so if you re going to get to the estate that afternoon, then when do you wrap up. so, it s just allowing the weekend to paso they can prepare for the search and then conduct it on the next business day. we see the goal here as is this to win every legal point which is actually a pretty narrow request? or is this a delay? to slow things down, to muck up the works. i think it s a p
unsealing it for them, if they got it, they can do it. correct. i don t think there is a legal it would hurt their legal case in any way. it is purely a pr move, i would imagine, that it enables them to spin it in whatever way they want without making the facts public. renato, this insider who tipped off federal authorities that there was more at mar-a-lago, how worrying do you think this person should be for trump s inner circle and what more could they offer, do you think, to investigators? well, i suspect that they re continuing to stay in touch with the justice department. typically when we had cooperating sources we would stay in touch with them. if there were any threats, we would take steps to protect those sources. i had situations where some of my cooperators were threatened. i know my office even had a cooperator who was murdered. it is something that the