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Procedures for handling a case like the search that happened at the former president s house. i understand that s not a standard case. but in terms of people asking why isn t the fbi, why isn t merrick garland out there making public statements about an ongoing investigation, you worked at doj, give us a window into what that thinking might be. well, i think it is absolutely correct that the normal practice of the department is that it does not comment on pending cases or investigations. the department speaks when it makes filings in court. and when its lawyers appear in court. that s the practice, that s the rule. that s the way it should be. however, there are times and i think this is one of them when the fundamental integrity of the justice department, the fbi in this case are being called into question, and there is an obligation to defend what the ....
So the report in the wall street journal raises the question about whether someone inside donald trump s orbits raised concerns about the possession of classified documents at mar-a-lago. i m john berman with brianna keilar. the report says that sometime after trump first turned over 15 boxes of material to the national archives last winter, this is the quote from the journal, quote, someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may be still more classified documents at the private club. so, who could that person have been who did aallert them, why would they be concerned? agents arrived late in the morning, they were not wearing fbi logo jackets that are often seen at these types of searches. trump himself and you made this point many times this morning, he could release the search warrant here, he could ....
Included text messages. here is a quote from the letter that was sent to members of that organization on tuesday. exactly whose numbers were provided to whom and for what purpose have yet to be determined. however, the information will likely be used for a criminal investigation into the usss employee. the letter reminds agents that secret service attorneys represent the interests of the organization, not the individual and encouraged them to seek legal counsel. the secret service did not address the specific concerns but the agency did reiterate it is committed to cooperating with all investigations under way, john. whitney wild, very interesting new developments. thank you so much for being all over this reporting. former trump national security adviser john bolton the target of an alleged iranian assassination plot. we re going to speak to him about this threat. and, putting it all in historical perspective. the fbi executes a search warrant at the former president s home. whe ....
Documents, that it is a tremendous overreach. if it is valid and it is real, tied to some criminal activity related to january 6th, that s fine. you folks know i ve been critical of the president s conduct on january 6th. but if it is just about documents, that s almost absurd. that s the same thing that the fbi was investigating hillary clinton for and i don t remember them invading her home. if you are republican, the reason you re asking to act the way you are, the last 48 hours, is that you really do feel like you re not getting fair treatment from your own government and that s a very dangerous place to be. but there are pictures of documents donald trump flushed down the toilet. does he not get the benefit of the doubt as well? sure, i think that s worth investigating. keep in mind what was that piece of paper? it had elise stefanik s name on it. mick, we can t in fairness, mick, it was torn up. we don t know what was on it. that s just a fact. it says stefanik on it. ....
That they had to have evidence that something was there, that was important for national security, or january 6th. i mean, they re aware of what we have in a world today where we don t believe in institutions, and that it will be easy to turn it around as it already is being done, planted evidence, but if they go against their own legal conscriptions, which say they have to protect the person by not making it a trial in public, then they re losing their ethics. it is a svery complicated situation, made much worse by the failure for anybody to believe in institutions ns anym, because otherwise we would say, okay, yes, we believe in the fbi, let s wait and hear if and when there is an indictment and then they ll speak. how does this compare to the federal interest and interaction that there was with richard nixon following watergate? are there any little things that you can draw similarities between? you know, when i think back to the summer of 1974, i remember i was in washington at ....