will they be indifferent about authorities seeking to recover classified materials? that s today s poll question, which i ll share in a moment. it may depend upon responses by trump s gop opponents. most weren t quick to weigh in before the indictment was unsealed. ron desantis tweeted, the weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a threat to a free society. mike pence used the same word while calling for the unsealing of the indictment. the american people should be able to judge for themselves whether this is just the latest incident of weaponization and politicization at the justice department, or if it s something different, he said. ditto for tim scott on the weaponization charge. the committing to pardon trump immediately upon his own swearing in. chris christie kept his powder dry initially saying we don t get our news from truth social, trump s account. let s see what the facts are when an indictment is released. asa hutchinson called for trump to withdraw
refer. i do. first of all, it s sort of a new thing to have photographs in indictments. i remember seeing the first one five years ago. about what you can put a photo in an indictment. it was unthinkable. now they are there all the time, and they should be. they are evidence, why not. i m not really buying the they are just newspapers. but the fact that some are perhaps many of the documents were innocuous or souvenirs, fine, but that doesn t undermine that a small portion were decidedly not. the indictment lays out the high level of sensitivity of those documents. it did yooesn t matter if it the awl alone or surrounded by souf nears, it s the ones that are sensitive that we care about here. jack smith says he wants to give him a speedy trial. is that going to happen? not by the legal definition
tr trump. my office will seek a speedy trial in this matter, consistent with public interest and the rights of the accused. we very much look forward to presenting our case to a jury of citizens in the southern district of florida. smith did not go into details of the indictment but said people ought to read it. joining me is elie honig, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. so great to have you back. let s talk about big picture. first of all, he s investigating both january 6th and mar-a-lago documents. what do you make of the fact that this was an indictment pertaining to one and not the other? mar-a-lago has essentially lacked january 6th. they have been investigating january 6th essentially since it happened. so we are two and a half years ago. mahmoud march didn t surface
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