the filtered out the attorney-client privilege information and i really believe that there is no need for a special master. shannon: kevin, his team will argue it s not just about the attorney-client privilege. there is executive privilege. they think the presidential records act is being completely disregarded. they say it s not just about what the team did. they think there are other things and need to be handled as well. we certainly have more questions than answers but two things are becoming very much clear. number one, the fact of the president never asserted privilege over these documents is inherent in this document. this 36 page document we have. i want to go separate occasions when those documents were taken from mar-a-lago, that was never exercised. that photo was so damning for anyone watching. when you see that classification of top secret. special, compartmentalized. it shouldn t be the white house, the pentagon or a secure area.
to take them, in other words, it was just chaos and inadvertent, and that is a big if because there s just too many boxes to fall into that category, nothing explains why they weren t all returned when you had the archives and the department of justice repeatedly asking for them. i think, willie, that s the area where we may learn more today. the sort of back and forth with the archives and with the department of justice. it may fill in some of those questions that really goes to the issue of why was it necessary for the department of justice to sort of finally have to do this by search warrant? because the former president simply was not returning documents that were top secret compartmentalized, the highest level of important documents for our national security. andrew, on the last opponent point you mentioned, the search warrant, there seems to be an outside eye, looking at
of justice, they re clearly over. he doesn t have bill barr or whitaker jeff sessions, you know, to do his bidding anymore. but we do need a full accounting of, one most importantly, what documents did donald trump have that where top secret and compartmentalized. to, you know, where these documents came into other individuals? who else had access? where they digitized. i am afraid they could ve also been uploaded into an online format. three, we know donald trump interacts often with foreign nationals, you know, where they given or passed around, ordered for nationals have access to them. and then why, why crusted he have these documents? they say that my colleagues on the intel committee on the republican side say it is for his memoir. donald trump just published a picture book. he is not writing a memoir. so the y is also very important here. yeah, i will play mike turner who has been going around sort of defending the president making that point, take a listen.
the heat is building up. the pressure is building up. whatever i can do to take the heat down, to bring the pressure down, just let us know. congressman eric swalwell is a democrat of california, a member of the house intelligence committee. he joins me now. congressman, this sort of threat was reported, i believe, in the new york times earlier. the president committing it to print now in a court filing. what is your reaction to that? merrick garland, chris, it s not going to be threatened. that is clearly the case here. this is a position, it s also clear he does not want to be in. but the days of donald trump, you know, throwing his weight around or threatening the department of justice, they re clearly over. he doesn t have bill barr or whitaker, jeff sessions, you know, to do his bidding anymore. but we do need a full account of, one, most importantly, what documents did donald trump have that were top secret and compartmentalized. two, you know, where these documents came into o
mulvaney, who i spoke with a short time ago. thanks so much for being here, mick. alisyn, thanks for having me. mick, are you worried about the 20-plus boxes of classified material that was sitting in donald trump s basement and who might have seen it? worried? not worried. i m curious. i saw the list that of things that were removed from mar-a-lago. and the one thing that caught my attention, along with i think the attention of most people, was that one list that said there were various items marked ts sci. that s the serious stuff. that s top secret and compartmentalized information. that s not supposed to be there. that being said, it s really hard to sort of understand how it gets there in the first place. these things are not sort of accidentally moved anywhere. these documents are marked. they are clearly known to folks to be ts sci, and they re supposed to be, folks, sort of tracking where they are. so, the fact that that document or it could be it says various docum