what is your worry about why trump would have knowingly kept those classified documents in mar-a-lago? to my point what we ve seen with donald trump, george conway said it best last night, the republican party talks about they don t support pronouns but donald trump is the key of pro nounz, i, me, mine, my. everything is about him. it has become less about america first and more about donald trump first. that s why i think he kept these documents is because to donald trump it s like a 5-year-old with a toy. that s my toy and these are his documents. i want you to look ahead to 2024. would you vote for joe biden if it s again, a biden/trump matchup and do you think biden could beat trump? look, i think, you know, for me the republican party s bench is stacked, we have leaders like ron desantis, be it if you agree with all of their policies or not, this is something that the republican party has to recognize and they have to recognize it now is we can still
home and one of the reasons listed out here it says the search is related to a violation of 18 u.s.c. 793, willful retention of national defense information, as brianna put it, he knew what he had and he knew what it was and he knew he was supposed to give it back. why is that important? well, it s critical because it suggests that the government is investigating crimes for which it will have to prove a relatively substantial degree of knowledge on donald trump s part. that he knew it was national defense information, that he knew he wasn t entitled to keep it and he knew it had been requested back. if they re going to undertake that burden, that s a pretty significant one and what it means is that the warrant, affidavit, at least the portions of it that we haven t seen yet, suggest that there s probable cause to believe that that s actually the case, in other words, that they already have in handsome form of evidence that establishes that to the satisfaction of the magistrate
why here. why donald trump or these documents were at mar-a-lago and why he or someone did not want to return them. what s intriguing about that to you? well, the why is the motive question. i mean, you don t have to prove motive to win the case, but every prosecutor will tell you that establishing the motive of a bad actor goes a long way to convincing the jury of what it is you re trying to prove. and we don t know the why yet, we don t know if it s because he is a packrat or because he treats these documents as if they were his personal property, he took them for mementos or he took them to sell to the russians. each of those would be a very different case and would matter a great deal more of course if it was some nefarious purpose than if it was for, you know, personal en grand diesment, to make himself look good with the saudis, who knows. leave selling them to the russians aside for the moment, leave the most nefarious
biden s current approval rating in gallup is 38%, not very good, but the question is what is the exact correlation between a president s approval rating and how many seats his party actually goes on to lose or win? take a look here, midterms where the white house party had no in net loss of seats, with is what democrats are hoping or gaining some seats. look here, 2018 when the republicans actually gained a few seats donald trump s approval rating was 41%. in 1982 when there was no net loss for ronald reagan s republican party it was 42%. in the rest of the years they were well above 50 but there is not actually the clear correlation you might expect. just because joe biden is low doesn t mean that democrats will necessarily lose. this may be one of the few times when joe biden wants to be like donald trump in a midterm election. donald trump or ronald reagan. harry, thank you very much for that. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell down playing expectations of republicans re
search of mar-a-lago. prosecutors made the case for secrecy because evidence might be destroyed, they said, but the judge set in motion the possibility of releasing a redacted version of the affidavit as soon as next week. ludicrous, ridiculous, bs, those words coming from former trump senior officials who dispute the former president s claim that he had, quote, a standing order to declassify documents that he took from the white house. cnn reached out to 18 former top trump administration officials and all of them told us they never heard any such order issued during their time working for donald trump. we re going to have much more on that in just a moment. joining us now is former senior counsel to ken starr, former deputy assistant secretary for policy at the department of homeland security, paul rosen swig. i want to talk about the document released yesterday by judge reinhart which outlines some of the reasons why the fbi wanted to search donald trump s