we are claiming we have declassified, and i think this is a real tell that this is a lie, there s no declassification and that the lawyers want to delay that answer because they don t have an answer. if they make that misrepresentation in court that donald trump has been making on social media, they stand to be disbarred, they are never going to make that claim. ultimately they re not going to be able to make it. kyle, you re writing about the special master, quote donald trump put the justice department on its heels courtesy of a single federal judge who gave him the benefit of almost every doubt as he fought against the fbi s probe of documents seized from his mar-a-lago estate x now if they can replicate in front of a skeptical audience, and the first indication offered in a file monday night suggests a tougher road ahead. it s interesting as you write in the piece, this is a special
invited to j.d. vance s rally at all or whether he just showed up of his own accord. whatever the case is, you know, republicans are going to have to deal with donald trump as liz cheney suggested on january 6th. they are struggling to know how to deal with him, but they don t know how to stand up to him. and they still don t know how to stand up to him, and they still, i guess, feel that he is more of an electoral asset than liability. then they fear his voters of course, the man they call orange jesus. we ll have much more on donald trump s rally and that special master hearing coming up in just a bit. also ahead, most of puerto rico this morning still without power after hurricane fiona dumped more than 2 feet of rain on the island. we ll have the latest on the recovery efforts there. could florida governor ron desantis face legal trouble after dozens of migrants were flown by him to virginia last week. a new investigation opened by a sheriff in texas.
they re not believers, they tell others, in the election conspiracy. they re not election deniers. what do they do, they buy a $34 million lot on a private island in miami. they closed on the deal, by the way, weeks after the election in december, even while trump was continuing his attacks on the election. and, you know, essentially they just abdicated. jared kushner told others that he was not going to fight for it if rudy giuliani was going to be in charge of this election attack. it s really this key mment, i think, and it really shows the hollow arguments of the jared and ivanka promotors, what was the purpose of them being there if they re going to walk out on the biggest crisis of the trump presidency? and that, peter, was my next question to you. they know the election wasn t stolen and instead of standing in there as the few people that have donald trump s ear, they turn and walk away and move to
told, hey, you can t do this. this is trouble. we know he and his team, lawyers, seemingly did not cooperate and misrepresented and frankly flat out lied to the fbi and the national archives about whether or not they had those documents. so talk to us about how this could impact the doj s ongoing probe. it s excellent evidence of one of the essential elements of the offense when it comes to the espionage act and the retention of government records, which is willfulness. did you do this knowing that it was against the law, and this could be strong evidence of that. one tricky aspect of this, i imagine he would assert attorney/client privilege as to the statements and say that the privilege belongs to him, and cannot be waived by a lawyer like eric herschmann. i imagine there would be litigation. the client is not donald trump the man, it is the president of the united states and actually in the best interest of the
i was wondering, does putin really have something on president trump. maybe there is something there in all of this. he, the head of the intelligence agency who had access to all the information out there didn t know whether the american president had been compromised in some way because his behavior was so out of sync with traditional american views. and you re right, it s interesting, the view didn t seem to be reciprocated by president putin, a meeting in osaka, japan a g20 meeting where the president has a side meeting with president putin, and bragging about ways people were honoring him, the polls were going to norm a poll after him, trump heights and putin sort of says maybe they should name all of israel after you, and it s this moment that captures putin s view of this. he gets trump s number. he understands the narcissism and flattery that s required to deal with him, and he s sort of