searching for while on the property. i want to bring in cnn legal analyst norm mizen, special council for the house judiciary committee in trump s first impeachment trial, analyst susan glasser and dave arenberg, the state attorney for palm beach county, florida. susan, i almost butchered your name, so i ll begin with you. i ve got to ask you the washington post report is, frankly, breathtaking. i have to ask what is your reaction to the reports that they were searching for not just classified documents, but those that may be related to nuclear weapons, not somewhere where it s secured under the, you know, cover of the federal government, but mar-a-lago? what s your reaction to that? yeah. i mean look, laura, this is a very, very serious allegation. this is the kind of thing that government does not screw around about and obviously the idea of nuclear secrets being held in an insecure way at mar- a-lago is just extraordinary and certainly really changes the conversation i
bipartisan issue. is quite dumbfounding, considering the fact that last g attracted the largest public audience of any congressional hearing, and we have seen here in years, john dillon britt improve those numbers john, so our members within a select comd they ve also created a new caucus, and this week they sent a letter to the intelligence community requesting information about the cross retrieval and the reverse engineering programs alleged by whistle-blower davis. remember he told lawmakers that he could tell them pretty much everything but only in a classified setting, and lawmakers have been hitting some roadblocks and trying to get him into one of those skiffs. he said that he actually does not want a classified setting briefing, and that s because he wants transparency, so you and i john, so we can finally know what the truth is finally. but do you think we can handle
probably doesn t remember what in the 37 documents nor does he need to know to have a defense. the attorneys might need to discuss among themselves to try to make arguments this information was not closely held by the government. it was known by too many people, et cetera. mostly legal arguments and at some point need to share with mr. trump saying make them or not. but i doubt much discussion that they need to have with him about the substance of the classified documents. second point i d make is that when people are in government service including presidents and including directors of cia et cetera offer there are skilled skiffs built into their home because they re on call 24/7. makes sense. there was one that already existed at mar-a-lago. i don t know how technical, we krn get into technically what was dismantled and needed to be reinstateded. i actually don t think it s totally crazy to say, just for the purpose of talking about these documents it would, in a
yeah, director wray, as he took those questions for five hours yesterday inside that hearing, you almost wanted to see what was in the thought bubble outside his head. he would compose himself and say something a little more professional than he probably wanted to say, as we saw some highlights in those clips. it was embarrassing, if some of the people in the room for capable of embarrassment. they might be embarrassed by the line of questioning they were pushing on director wray. some of the conspiracy theories, as you say, that they were pushing on him. ultimately, joe, he did comment in a sort of backwards way about the mar-a-lago investigation, about the way those documents were seized and, yes, about the way they were stored. he talked about skiffs, those secure rooms that are used to look at documents that are classified. he said, i m pretty sure a bathroom, a ballroom and a bedroom are not skiffs. that was as far as he went, but he had some things to say. we ll get into it i
other than rudy giuliani in manhattan. it s surreal to know that there are ts level, highly classified, compartmentalized documents lounging around in bankers boxes, in storage bins at mar-a-lago that the former president it seems showed off to various people. we handle classified information in washington in the most secure fashion in skifs. we don t talk about it outside of skiffs. for donald trump to undertake to do this is alarming. i m concerned about the fallout from this. an interesting challenge, jake, when this case goes to trial, and i m certain it will, will be how do you share this information with 12 lay jurors who are randomly selected off the street so they appreciate the gravity of what former