charles: to that point, katie, not only was there questions about the urgency with respect to the warrant but the documents themselves, the materials themselves, 19 months. they were so important that there was this sort of urgency. you had 19 months. all of a sudden, just out of nowhere, it became this huge priority where the trump team was apparently not engaged anymore and the fbi went in. what do you make of that? well, it does seem like a setup at this point. this was the president of the united states. of course he had access to classified and sensitive information. any comparison to any other government employee is completely irrelevant to the president. the president is not bound by the same regulations and laws that any other government employee is when they have the security clearances. tssci information can run the gamut. it s a fear factor that the left and the media are going after
about to hold a press conference to give us an update on the suspect s identity and whether or not his motivations have anything to do with the ongoing death threats or iran. charles? charles: thanks very much. i want to go back to the search warrant used by the fbi for the mar-a-largo raid this week. former deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree is here with us. what do you make of what has happened in the last 24 hours? tom? tom obviously there you go. can you hear me? okay. i can hear you. charles: okay. what we know right now the specific charges that the justice department is looking at. the most significant, they have a espionage charge act. that concerns people that mishandle information related to the national defense. to my mind, that explains part of the reason why merrick garland made this extraordinary decision to raid the home of a
targeted by the system, particularly the department of justice. what are your thoughts about this? thank you, charles. every squirrel funds a nut. i don t generally agree with david brooks. he s right on that. all the things that you ve been discussing, the secrecy, the leaking and attorney general merrick garland coming out saying this is business as usual fuels the suspicions. this is as garland and others in the white house acts as if we re many a different era of history. the rising distrust of public institutions is a serious, serious issue. that credibility can never be assumed especially when the
republicans. i know very well how vicious they can be. you would think there would be an adult in the republican room that would say just calm down, see what the facts are. earlier the top republican on the house intelligence committee questioned the tactics used in the raid on trump s home. knowing that the presidents deal with this, it s highly unusual for the president to have anything in the oval office that rises to the level of an imminent national security threat. turner says he wants to hear from the ag and fbi directeder as soon as possible. charles? charles: next, we have michael goodwin. we have an articles from the new york times saying this could be a massive mistakes, galvanized republicans that see president trump as being
charles, that show the actual evidence pages. this is called a receipt of property. i don t know if everybody is able to see it. it talks about miscellaneous confidential documents. miscellaneous secret documents. miscellaneous top secret documents. this all calm down yesterday when attorney general merrick garland here at the justice department where i am announced that doj had no options to unseal this for the public. president trump, the former president late last night on his social media platform said go ahead, release it. i have no problem with people seeing it. his lawyers agreed today. the judge signed off on it. the real question and we can t say it enough, we want to see the affidavit. the affidavit would have the probable cause and explain why, why did they go in to mar-a-largo. what exactly were they looking for. that affidavit is still under seal. that would need to be a separate motion, this gives us more information about what happened. charles?