courtroom is that every turn whether it s the timeframe in which the documents can be scanned by a third party vendor, or choosing a third party vendor, every stage of this, trump s team is asking for more time. they want to take baby steps and all this. right. even the request to get clearance to look at the classified documents, that two consumes time. they have to get permission from different agencies. sunset stone one member of trump s team has a top secret clearance right now. they would need additional clearances. so the more this gets jumbled together, that to extends the time. the judge down in florida has already said that she wants this process completed by the end of november. but realistically then, issues will be raised with her. anything dearie decides can be ideal to the judge in florida, and we already have issues pending at the 11th circuit. the notion this is gonna be resolved anytime and the next couple months, i think, is kind of a fantasy. and it does seem lik
an index of what was in those boxes. we re not sure. that s why we need to review them. but that s also telling, because in order to have to classified anything, you would need to know what the documents were. you think so. although trump is putting forward this very broad argument that there is some implicit declassification that he was, if you will, so cavalier and careless in the way he handled documents in the white house, and perhaps even down at mar-a-lago, that he took thingsn up to the lake lincoln bedroom, he left them strewn around the east wing of the white house, he took them down to mar-a-lago and left them strewn around their. and this was somehow implicitly declassified. i think that s the broadest trump argument. maybe they think they can level that somewhere and get some traction for it, but the judge said in this proceeding, it s not a criminal case where the government has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. the burdens on trump s lawyers
to prove that this stuff wasn t classified if that is indeed a critical issue that stunt contention in this case. until then, unless theyn do, that he s gonna presume they are classified. i thought was really interesting. a, he s not gonna let them have access to the documents as they desperately want, and be, he himself doesn t want to look at the documents. that s how seriously he s t treating the government claims of classification. he s living on a fair leaving open the possibility that of trump s team doesn t come up with something concrete in the course of the next few weeks, that he may say, i m gonna take the government s word for it, and i m gonna soon whatever they say about these classified documents is true. i think there s other arguments still the trump team can put forward, and they started to put forward today that maybe some ow the documents are classified, th but personal bizarre arguments like that, and they started talking about those things in court. withou
these number of documents were declassified.imde well, the strategy seems muddled at best right now. one thing that you highlight is the fact that the lay seems to t be sort of foundational principle here. what i noticed in the reporting on what happened in the wh courtroom is that every turn whether it s the timeframe in which the documents can be scanned by a third party vendor, or choosing a third party vendor, every stage of this, trump s team is asking for more time. they want to take baby steps and all this. a right. even the request to get clearance to look at the classified documents, that two consumes time. they have to get permission from different agencies.eq sunset stone one member of trump s team has a top secret clearance right now. they would need additional clearances. so the more this gets jumbled together, that to extends the time. the judge down in florida has already said that she wants this process completed by the end of november. but realistically then, i
didn t end up saying anything anyways.s. obviously, he didn t want the optics of having to invoke the fifth amendment as many times as he did. it sounds like this is where letitia james has had it. she doesn t have a lot of criminal jurisdiction. so it sounds most likely like this is the long advertised massive civil suit over tax fraud, insurance fraud, and similar issues that she s been advertising for sometime. sounds like being the operative face. we don t know this is gonna be an announcement about trump, but the fact that her office rejected a settlement deal in the recent weeks, the wheels of justice i ve been spending with greater ferocity in recent months. perhaps this is the much awaited conclusion to a high profile investigation.tyhs josh christine, senior legal affairs reporter at politico, great to see. great to see. we have much more ahead this hour. president biden is in new york city tonight and the white house press secretary, karine jean-pierre, is gonna join