he has a lot of money. he s buying equipment from iran and north korea. and le throw everything he has at this because there is no way he could show weakness, because if he does show weakness to the russian people, they will get rid of him and if they get rid of him he dies. bill browder good to draw on your experience, thank you so much. thank you. jim, that was fascinating. i mean given bill s experience with the putin regime. were you surprised, i mean his comment also about the blowback from any potential use of a nuclear weapon by russia was interesting and one i haven t heard many take. and even putin knows what a blow back would be, including from partners like a china and browder said the view is, that putin cannot lose because if he
as asha says, if trump somehow were rolling grenades under our agents, people would understand the stakes. this aspect of, it the retrieval of the documents and the damage assessment, those are just completely forced moves for the national intelligence and the department of the justice. but if we come to a trial, there may be attempts by the former president to try to say i need classified documents to make my defense. and therefore, keep the trial from going forward. but the doj knows this playbook and knows trump s playbook, and there are going to be ways around it, they are very conscious of it. they sure answer of it is two separate tracks and they will prove the case without that top secret stuff. don t you think a lot of the playbook, one of the first thing they do is stall? let s throw everything we can and stall as long as we can. not only do they do that, but they re not very creative
provide a road map to the investigation into the justice department and in fact potentially expose some witnesses. so we ll get a better look on thursday. josh, meanwhile, you re writing in politico this morning about all of the strategic attempts any way that donald trump and his team are making to sort of bury this and push it to the side. latest is thein oakvation of the fourth amendment. a illegal search and seizure. as you put it, this is the throw everything against the wall response to the mar-a-lago search. what else are they trying here? it sounds like they re trying to file a motion to basically try to sequester the stuffer that was taken from mar-a-lago and hand it over to what they call a special master as hallie s piece earlier alluded so. we saw that down in the michael cohen case. we saw that done in the rudy giuliani case in recent memory where a third party comes in and looks at the materials an sees if they fit within the warrant
could, in the end, be meaningless. according to reporting in politico reinhart carefully reviewed signing off and considers the affidavit to be reliable. judge reinhart also notes that donald trump s legal team has not at this point filed anything, anything at all in the legal battle over the affidavit that is despite their public demands that the affidavit be made public in all of their bluster and extreme rhetoric about a supposed lack of transparency from doj. rhetoric that, of course, has led to a surge in threats against doj and the fbi. team trump s total silence on the issue in court raises even more questions about what politico terms the throw everything against the wall response to the search itself. they write this. trump and his team have not yet settled on a single approach about what may come, in.
tomorrow but it does appear that john eastman rejected, perhaps around a year before, the very theory that he proceeded on, in 2020. he had before taken the exact opposite position. so, whether he just had a change of heart and he saw the light when he thought this was the only opportunity to throw a hail mary pass, or whether someone else appeared, i don t know. it will be interesting to try to follow that. but in any event, john eastman did become the legal architect of the green bay sweep. he was the one saying, let s throw everything at them. let s see what we can do in the department of justice to get them to cry corruption, to give pence the opportunity and the pretext for rejecting electoral college votes, we re turning them to the states and then either just declaring a victory in the electoral college for donald trump or kicking the whole thing into the house of representatives for a