and would be gravely, gravely damaging, u.s. national security interest. and i think everybody should be outraged, if that is what occurred. if that is what occurred though, you and i have struggled for the last five years to figure out where the checks and balances have been in this administration. and what we did learn is that there were people and the intelligence infrastructure, and the defense department who are whistleblowers. who did say enough is enough, and this is dangerous. i would assume that this would be a trigger. right? if that happened would we know? would we know if donald trump had these classified information that by being declassified, would have pose a national security risk to america? would we ever find out if that s true? well who knows what document he may have taken out of the white house. clearly there were some, that s why the fbi and doj going after this. but there is supposed to be a record of every document that was declassified. and what i m hearing
take. that before the last couple of days there has been some speculation that maybe donald trump took stuff away that he should have taken. that should ve been in the archives. not all that serious. as we uncover more of this in the next 24 hours, if it becomes this serious, what s happened? what should happen? well i think donald trump should be treated like any other former government official. if they intentionally took documents, or took information out of the government, there is a highly sensitive of classified nature, i think there should be penalties for that. or there should be in fact charges brought to bear. now there are all different types of potential damage. there is some material that he may have taken out that is just some government property. and there might have been some classified information of the confidential secret level. but then this also the most highly sensitive, most highly restricted, and most sensitive information that the u.s. government and national
was hurt today. nbc sben collins was part of the team for nbc and occupied the social media posts tonight. and had been following that story all day. ben, amazing, you have been looking around from dark parts of the internet. i don t even know how to describe the story. but this is a guy who was fairly, actively responding to the right wing response to the search. there has been a right-wing response that said that this was illegitimate and the fbi needs to explain itself and the department of justice did. this guy seems to have decided to add a lid on itself. yeah ali, i want to say, the very dark parts of the internet that i go on, the neo-nazi parts, they don t really care about this coverage but. the parts that are trump obsessed like truly obsest with donald trump. those are the people right now, who are the most angry. and that s what you saw today. for example, i want to say, on may 7th, this is what ricky schiffer responded to marjorie taylor greene. congresswoman greene, the
it was already an incredibly busy news day before that bombshell from the washington post broke shortly before we came on air. that paper reporting tonight that the fbi searched former president donald trump s home to look for classified documents relating to nuclear weapons. we are gonna continue to follow that story as it develops. i want to turn now to major news of the day, although it s all connected, after three days of suspense, and two days of speculation. and three days of attacks from right-wing media and republican politicians, today the attorney general merrick garland broke his silence. the notoriously tight-lipped
the next step is the one we use in 1775. wow. so he was thinking like this for a while. and then, this search of mar-a-lago happens. and he said this is the end of. we must not tolerate this one. that s what he said two days ago. and that s what led to this entire thing. so my worry is that this is not on the darkest part of the internet. i know those places. i know where the neo-nazis hang out. i know their telegrams, and all that stuff. this is on the parts that are obsessed with donald trump. these are your neighbors. these are people down the street who are convinced by the way, that the irs higher ranked 87,000 new agents, that s a secret ploy for people to come and take your guns. and they re gonna come any day now. so you gotta get armed. he had posted again, we are not repeated all of, it but you written about it. he had posted for people to get to the gun shops, and pawnshops, as soon as they can, to be armed. i mean so this is bill talk about war, it wasn t even talk ab