Thank you everybody for coming. I im a visiting fellow here at coi and f we are here for a gret conversation. It will be a conversation tonight about nationalism, family and fatherhood and the excellent new book i love, my father left me ireland by Michael Brendan dougherty. In some ways this is different from what we do from what i used to. Im a scholar here at aei and fear of the American Enterprise institute forar Public Policy research. We do lots of social science studies and in fact, social science studies get a bad name in my father left me ireland, but in a way that highlights what we have in common. It is often as he puts it a nation today in the modern way of thinking is often come up with, at best problematic. It is best problematic as an administrative unit. That section is tipped off by talking up singing to his newborn baby over and over again in the same songs. The wind that shakes the barley and even the game i tried to sing in the global byway i also sing my children t
first thing i thought when i saw that photo was, wow. that is a lot of documents. i mean, we have seen some of the documents that were found in the fbi search of mar-a-lago laid out on the floor in evidence voters like this one here. but the sheer volume of the paper on this giant green palette these green wooden pallets, wrapped in plastic wrap that is just really something. now we know that not all of these papers belong to the government. some of them could legitimately be trumps. maybe he wrote a lot of poetry while he was in office. i don t know. and yeah, the fbi has already reclaimed quite a bit of paper from trump s position possession. more than 11,000 government arguments more than 300 of which were classified dozens of which were marked a secret and more than a dozen of which were marked top secret. but still, just thinking about those pallets stacked high with boxes, which were presumably filled with papers and you really have to wonder, did the fbi get
me. thank you, as always. and thanks to you at home, for joining us this hour. this week, bloomberg news publishes story about the documents donald trump had sent down to mar-a-lago at the end of his presidency. the story went to some detail about who packed the boxes containing those documents. i m going to spoil the ending here by telling you that it was the white house not the general services administration the gsa, that pack those boxes, which is counter to what donald trump has insisted for several months now. but it is maybe not surprising, given the other wild claims he has made in the course of this whole mar-a-lago saga. but a complaining that bloomberg story was a picture of the document boxes that were sent down to trump s beach club. this is it right here. look at that. i don t know about you wet the first thing i thought when i saw that photo was, wow. that is a lot of documents. i mean, we have seen some of the documents that were found in the fbi search of
saw that photo was, wow. that is a lot of documents. i mean, we have seen some of the documents that were found in the fbi search of mar-a-lago laid out on the floor in evidence voters like this one here. but the sheer volume of the paper on this giant green palette these green wooden pallets, wrapped in plastic wrap that is just really something. now we know that not all of these papers belong to the government. some of them could legitimately be trumps. maybe he wrote a lot of poetry while he was in office. i don t know. and yeah, the fbi has already reclaimed quite a bit of paper from trump s position possession. more than 11,000 government arguments more than 300 of which were classified dozens of which were marked a secret and more than a dozen of which were marked top secret. but still, just thinking about those pallets stacked high with boxes, which were presumably filled with papers and you really have to wonder, did the fbi get everything? 11,000 documents