stages. meanwhile, they are busy redacting parts of the affidavit used to search mar-a-lago. the judge saying that there should be at least some portions of the affidavit that can be unsealed. the government must hand over a productive urgent by thursday. trump says, he wants the halting out in the open, at least that is what he is saying publicly. in court, his lawyers did not take a stand one way or the other in the uncertain process. well, trump says this is all about transparency. you have to ask yourself, what does he have to gain? the washington post reports, quote, people who have conferred with trump in recent days said the former president believes that any information made public about the investigation into his handling of classified material will rile his supporters, ultimately benefiting him politically. there you have it. trump once again leading into division, anti government sentiment among his base to secure their support, no matter what happens next. joining
do that passed 2022 and 2024. charles, i want to start by talking about the stakes, which frank laid out for us, the real world stakes of all this. we will talk a little bit about the politics, because i think it is all important to understanding the legal maneuvers about team trump and the government here. one of trump s lawyers says he plans to file a motion demanding a special master of use the documents seized from mar-a-lago. take a listen. we need a special master. that s a rare step when it comes to search warrants being executed, but this is something that we have to pursue. we have to get somebody in the middle because we re not going to leave it to doj to tell us that they re doing their field their search, and that there are the guardians of what s privileged or not. i wonder, charles, what you make of this legal maneuver? when we talk about a case where it is important that everybody believes that it has been carried out in as careful a manner as possible, how this
daniels, civil rights attorney charles clements junior and former assistant director for counter intelligence at the fbi, think all three msnbc analysts and contributors. frank, i want to start with you. we have seen what happens when his base is riled, and he believes that the riling of his base is good for him politically. you add on that the attacks we have seen on the fbi, trump looking out all the stops, not just for his defense but for political gain. talk us through the dangers of having someone who won t think twice about fanning the flames of anti government extremism, when they believe it benefits them. alicia, i feel we are in for a tough fall and winter if he indeed decides to announce his candidacy. what people feel really accountable saying that the fbi and doj have politicized themselves to their actions, it
with everything that they want to have, but even if they go further, if you look at his words, his deeds, and his actions, and was donald trump and his associates, you can see that it was necessary to not only get an indictment, but is important that you have enough, in a case like this, to secure a conviction as well. charles, i want to make a hard pivot to another story. i want to make sure we got into it tonight, because i think it is important. it is a video. nbc news obtained, and obtained it yesterday, and i will warn everyone who is watching this video, it is very disturbing. lawyers for a detained migrant are calling the video and an example of excessive force, and it shows an ice agent east s putting s neck on the face of a migrant on the floor of a poultry plant. this is part of a 2018 raid. because i have you, because you are a civil rights attorney, i just want you to talk about what you make of this video.
we need further regulation of social media. they need to step it up. we need further engagement between law enforcement and all levels, and social media platforms. law enforcement can feed them this concerning language. look at this, this is what our intel is saying, at the filter and algorithm and vice versa. we need a platform sharing more of what they are seeing from their intel units. there has got to be more coordination and cohesion. if we don t get that act together we will miss it again. we missed it on january six, and we got the midterm elections. we got a possible indictment coming up or release of some redacted document in terms of the affidavit from the mar-a-lago search warrant. trump won t like it. if it is released at all, it will be heavily redacted, and he will use that through all of the base. frank, thank you always for setting the stakes. eugene, thank you for being with us. charles, you are sticking with me because after the break we will talk about the other le