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you re a candidate now, ron. thanks to what is sure to be remembered as the most awkward campaign launch in american history. plus, that s not fair. trump s lawyers channel their inner 8-year-old in a whining complaint to the u.s. attorney general with due apologies to 8-year-olds. later, one year after 19 students and two teachers were gunned down in uvalde, texas, an activist group floats a radical proposal for reining in america s deadly gun culture. and we begin tonight with a question. would you ever hire someone who participated in a deadly insurrection to overtake the u.s. capitol or fellow rioters threatened to kill the house speaker and hang the vice president? would you hire a woman who was once arrested and charged with stealing the campaign signs of a political rival who she had run against for public office? personally i wouldn t and i imagine most of you wouldn t either. but florida governor ron desantis did. this is sandra atkinson. her investigat ....
absurd claims. since the fbi searched donald trump s private residence and members club back in august. the ex-president declassified all the documents that he could declassify them if he wanted to, quote, even by thinking about it. it is a claim that has been repeated over and over and over again by trump and his allies. the disgraced ex-president mentioned it in public and the media appearances so many times. not one single time has that claim been made in a court of law. now new reporting suggests that the question of whether there is an a proof that he declassified the documents is a major interest to prosecutors at doj. new york times is reporting that federal prosecutors and former president trump s handling of national security documents, what a question one of his confident ants about a claim that trup declassified the documents. that confidante is cash patel, one of trump s biggest defenders in the documents investigation. he is a trump loyalist who made a ca ....
search warrant served on monday. that s right, victor. we didn t expect attorney general merrick garland to come out today but he is going to be making a statement from the justice department building in downtown washington. they haven t disclosed yet exactly what it is going to be about, but you re right, there has been pressure building in recent days since this search on monday, this unprecedented search of a former president s home, that we are watching to see whether garland may want to make a statement about this. now, this isn t something that the justice department typically would comment on. it is an ongoing investigation. we don t believe that there have been charges brought at this time. we haven t seen any emerge from this. it s also about national security issues. on top of that, garland is not the type of attorney general that makes a lot of public statements, does a lot of press conferences, even whenever there were charges for seditious conspiracy, ano ....
failed because this man is continuing to use a seditious lies to try to hold on to power in this country, is illegally pressuring witnesses to not give testimony to one of the branches of government that has a sacred obligation to protect the constitution. i mean, if you think about it, we have candidates all over the country proudly campaigning on this seditious lie. it is time. i feel very strongly that there is a mountain of evidence now about this man s state of mind and exactly what went down, and that when he couldn t do it legally, he said screw the law. i don t care about the law. i want to hold on to power, and that is a crime. well, so much there to unpack in your one response, claire. i think in some ways, the quietest witness was the most tragic one. it was mr. ayers. he was one such radicalized trump supporter. he described himself as a family man and a working man. he said everything about his life has changed. in an eerie way, there was an echo to a lif ....
the material was marked with the highest levels of classification that exists, material that is meant to be held only in secure government facilities not at a private club where basically anyone can pay for membership and wander around. arguably, the agent s most alarming finding that we were able to see in this redacted version was that the boxes contained classified information that came from human intelligence sources meaning if the documents were mishandled, leaked or transmitted they could compromise the identity of american intelligence assets and the affidavit also lays out why doj had good reason not to believe or trust trump and his lawyers knowing that back in february of this year, after the archives notified congress that there was classified material and what they got back from mar-a-lago, trump put out a statement that very fact. investigators write this, quote, there is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified national d ....