documents found by the fbi at trump s private residence and golf club. they dismissed the criminal investigation as a document storage dispute that has sfie ruld out of control. most notable aspect of their filing, trump s lawyers tip-toeing around trump s claim that he declassified any or all of the documents. it s a claim for which they can t and don t provide a single shred of evidence. instead, saying this. quote, the government has not proven these records remain classified. that issue is to be determined later. the washington post notes, a section of their 21 page filing does not say that trump declassified the material before he left office. while trump s lawyers would like us to think this is what they say, document storage dispute, it s worth remembering in the court filing last week doj made clear that the country s national security may very well be in jeopardy if the government loses access and time, even temporarily, to the documents that were seized. from the
he has turned the once much heralded republican study committee into a toady group for house leadership. let me put it like this. is there anything concrete and affirmative that this new leadership will actually try to get through the house before the midterms or is it all about holding the line and being anti-obama? look, right now, as we know from all the survey data that s been out over the last couple of days, the president is in a very precarious political situation. his numbers are very low. republicans stand to take control of the senate to expand the majority in the house. and so the house agenda is to do no political arm. you won t see anything getting done until after the midterm elections. the election season is fully under way, and that means the political agenda in terms of getting the nation s business done is completely stalled.
again, a very conservative guy. as steve says, a representative of the culturally conservative south. nonetheless, you have had people complaining he took the republican study committee, this group of conservatives, and made it much more amenable to the leadership. so he s already played this bridging role in his position in the republican study committee. so it wouldn t surprise me if you have some you know, the far right, if you will, of the republican caucus complaining about him in about a month or two. yeah, and on that point, you mentioned earlier, eric erickson, a conservative blogger, he said look, steve scalise worked behind the scenes to marginalize conservatives. he has turned the once much heralded republican study committee into a toady group for house leadership.