and learn how abbvie could help you save. very good a 12 miniscule headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex reports, developing this hour, president biden is heading to keep battleground states tomorrow. getting labor day speeches in wisconsin and pennsylvania, and marking the official start of campaign season. meanwhile today in reaction to the presidents blistering souls nation speech. republican lawmakers in the white house offering their interpretation earlier today. they basically condemned all republicans who supported donald trump in the last election. that is over 70 million people. it was about a specific particular extreme extreme part of the party that has taken over. and here is the thing it is up to us in this moment to make sure that we are protecting the values of this country. new insight today into early january six committee s investigation is heading. committee member jamie raskin is vowing that a full report will be released by the end
cry and privilege it all. it is only a pretty narrow scope. so i think we are essentially just waiting to see what path the judge goes down, here. by everything we have seen so far there is no indication of any untoward activity by the justice department here. they pretty much handle this by the book and gave donald trump a lot of opportunities to avoid what ultimately ended up being the search at mar-a-lago, before getting to that point, alex. okay, ryan. stay with us. don t go anywhere. this conversation right now will bring in tracey walter, a former cia officer and fbi special agent. and also lisa reuben, legal analyst for the rachel maddow show. i believe we have some technical difficulties? we re hoping to get that hooked up. anyway, i m going to start with, you tracey, on this. the doj argued to signing a special master to review the documents for executive privilege is necessary and unprecedented. we don t, know as ryan saying, what the judge will do. yet she could still win
privilege, or not even point any at all. but the question is, is there a necessary reason for us on a neutral party to review documents that have already been scoured, most likely. how many days has it been? now we are looking at almost a month since the mar-a-lago search. you would think that all those in intelligence have looked at those documents. they know what is in there by now. so i think that is such a great point, alex. i think that really it is necessary, and they sort of use that in air quotes. it is necessary because trump made it necessary. really since his inception of running for president, he has taken shots at the intelligence community, the department of justice. and really undermine their credibility. and i think that is why this is so unprecedented. because the reality is that we do a good job of being impartial. i worked at the cia and fbi
club. four dozen empty folders marked classified and found in trump s mar-a-lago trade. you have that high level of security clearance. when your sussman of all this? look, alex. the headlines in those pictures are scary and dangerous. this should outrage any person regardless of their political ideology or their party affiliation. this is sensitive information it is gathered through very sensitive methods. using sometimes human intelligence sources to provide it to the u.s. government. and the fact is not under a lock and key, the fact is essentially a storage locker of a hotel in southern florida, should really send shivers up the spine of anybody. we talked about the fact that these classifications, some of them are even higher than top secret, right? at these documents when the white house go be stored in a safe. so i think it is remarkably scary and callous in shows a blatant disregard for the
about if you go back to the events that we saw in charlottesville. quite a few years ago. which manifested itself in that protest. it s not ugly and divisive rhetoric on particularly one side. so i think this is a continuation of those them attics. i would also say, too, alex, anybody looking at polls right now, the issues that are of concern to people in the country see that the issue of preserving and protecting our democracy is rising in importance. so i think it was a moment that the president used to address that growing sense of insecurity around what he thinks. and all of us think, should be the bedrock of what represents our nation. yeah. the speech, as you, know is getting mixed results. some responses of democrats praising the president for finally calling out far-right republicans. some say they are putting too