believed former president donald trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted. he has said privately that he wanted mr. garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of january 6th. garland got the message and did what the big guy wanted. but the raid was a replay of the mueller investigation. remember when trump handed over thousands and thousands of documents, showed the special counsel everything and they still tried to charge him with obstructing a crime that he didn t commit? the same thing happened this summer. trump s team cooperated. it was friendly. they handed over boxes that the liberal librarian wanted over at the archives the feds still slapped trump with a subpoena in june. and trump kept cooperating. a team flew down to mar-a-lago, trump s lawyers showed them what was in boxes. they said whatever you are looking for, here, just take it. they all had a nice lunch by the po
part of the republican party. and he will continue to do that. reporter: and joining us now is washington post national political reporter isaac ards. thank you so much for being with us. i want to start with the piece that you co-authored entitled trump plots aggressive midterm strategy seen in gop as double-edged sword. so could you mean by the double edged swords. in the primary, what we heard was trump s first general election rally. in the primaries he was the envy of all. his endorsement, his backing, every candidate wanted that and what you started to see almost immediately after those candidates won the primary was, taking trump off the top of their website, like dr. oz did. and starting to try to put some distance between themselves and trump. because while he is the number one thing for primary voters, the republican base, with the general election electorate, it is a little bit of a different story. and so what strategists are trying to figure out, republican s
judge permitting them to enter. the search by a large uniformed team ununiformed team, excuse me, took hours and included getting into trump s safe. mr. trump who announced the search in a statement on his website railed against it claiming prosecutorial misconduct and political persecution. he was in manhattan at the time in preparation for an upcoming deposition, part of the civil investigation by the new york state attorney s office into his organization s finances. the former president s lawyer was at the scene in florida and called it an unannounced raid to seize paper. white house officials tell nbc news they had no prior knowledge and justice department officials are refusing to comment. we have the story completely covered throughout this hour, including a deep dive with legal experts and historian michael beschloss, as well as the political fallout. we begin with nbc s kerry sanders, ken dilanian, ryan reilly and josh daucey. we did hear from donald trump during
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