privilege, or not even point any at all. but the question is, is there a necessary reason for us on a neutral party to review documents that have already been scoured, most likely. how many days has it been? now we are looking at almost a month since the mar-a-lago search. you would think that all those in intelligence have looked at those documents. they know what is in there by now. so i think that is such a great point, alex. i think that really it is necessary, and they sort of use that in air quotes. it is necessary because trump made it necessary. really since his inception of running for president, he has taken shots at the intelligence community, the department of justice. and really undermine their credibility. and i think that is why this is so unprecedented. because the reality is that we do a good job of being impartial. i worked at the cia and fbi
search warrant, it does clearly lay out where the fbi could include not search. and i think, like i said, donald trump has really tried to undermine the very core of these organizations. i have been on many answer many search warrants. and we don t make a habit of searching areas that we are not supposed to search. that is the law. and it is very easy to undercut that. when it goes to trial. so there is no way the fbi would have done anything outside the parameters of the search warrant. but i do think that this alternate the ultra maga group that president biden alluded to, i don t know that their views of this are going to necessarily change. and they are going to keep buying what trump is selling. you make a really good point, because just because donald trump says the particular rooms like his sons were searched, does not make them so, at this point. on the flip side, bedrooms, closets, they could certainly be used to hide secret documents. so anyway. to that point, let s start w
into very different political organizations. and political parties. and i think the optics of this is necessary, because of what he has done to undermine these organizations. but in reality, do i think it is necessary? absolutely not. it is really just a stall tactic because i ve no doubt in my mind that they have done everything properly, dotted every i across to 40. right. and ryan makes the point that the issue of executive privilege remains a throw at this point. but tracey, as we hear some of the rhetoric from donald trump last night calling the fbi in the doj vicious monsters, what kind of effect does that have on the intelligence community, to hear the kind of language used to describe them? i was reading some of that, because i just cannot bear to listen to it. i was reading things like how they searched his sons room, or searched his wife s room. and the reality is that all of this can be fact checked. if you look at exhibit a of the
regardless of the fact whether not donald trump was facing classified something or not, if it bore those markings that was responsive to the original subpoena. and lo and behold, when they went in search of mar-a-lago they found all of these documents, just under 200 pages of documents. so i think that really speaks to the credibility that donald trump is bringing to this when he tries to throw out any excuse he can about why held on to all these documents, which was not supposed to have. amid these more than 11,000 government documents, not classified, or at least not bearing classification markings. then he also just was not supposed to half. that is important point to remember here setting aside the classification parts. there s about documents that are not his. very true. but with the second active investigation, ryan, if you are donald trump s lawyer and you are watching all this commentary out there, what are you thinking? are his arguments in the court of public opinion matchi
does anyone really think that they have applied these laws evenly to past presidents who have had classified information? they are launching incredibly aggressive venture arctic rhetoric. vitriolic rhetoric. what we cannot have are agencies that are wielded against citizens of our country. this is a tough time in our country. we have too much distrust in too many of our institutions. gillian: let s bring in byron york of the washington examiner. mark theissen. cohost of the five. fireman, attorney general said that he signed off on this search point because he believes that bringing these documents out of mar-a-lago back into the