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. trump has often used litigation to delay and has loathed to go on offense particularly when he s likely to lose. while it is unclear whether the former president or an
protected where no one can bring in a cell phone and can t even bring in a fitbit or apple watch or anything like that and it was done in a way that the people in there understood and by the way, those people know if that information gets out it s one of them that did it and that s a very serious offense. so i m not as concerned about that as i am all the other stuff that s going on around this case and that s not at the top of my list of concerns. so katie benner, you and your colleagues have amazing new reporting and i want to read mr. meadows role in mar-a-lago. i want to play her comments. liz cheney does not think that the republican party is doing anything constructive in the sort of aftermath of this search. let me play her comments in defending the doj investigation. i ve seen no evidence that
classified. not sure that is a fact, but you have an incredible new piece of reporting that puts all of this history together, and i want to read some of it, katie benner. you write about meadows role specifically in standing between trump and his sticky fingers and the national security documents and you write this, meadows assured aides from the hurried packing up of the white house would follow requirements about the press vagsz of documents and he said they would make efforts that they would comply with the records act. the white house emailed all its offices detailing instructions about returning documents and cleaning up spaces. meadows followed up on those moats and encouraged offices to comply and that s according for a person he said he would talk to trump including one
circumstances. very quickly. don mcgahn was a similarly placed white house aide that decided that keeping secrets could amount to obstruction of justice and is the same kind of decision that meadows has to make. i was going to answer claire s question, and mr. toliger s office. he is someone who has to make a decision here and as we used to say in the department he can end up on the wrong side of the v, meaning united states versus meadows and trump, and he really needs to decide what to do because he is very much in the crosshairs and there are way too many witnesses and the white house in the closing days and i should just point out and it is a period of time in the closing days and this is not a question like donald trump is, and a lot of chaos in the last few days because that would explain why