pages that they usually have in the southern district of florida tell us the justice department believes they need to talk, they need to say some more about what the former president was alleging in his lawsuit against the government asking for the special master. there are a lot of things that the former president said in that filing, obviously a lot of it are his grievances about how the fbi in the justice department are biased against him. but some of it was about how cooperative he has been with this effort to get these documents back. so, i think you re gonna hear a little bit more about that in this filing. there is a lot of narrative that we still do not know about, beginning obviously in 2021 when the national archives first approached the trump team and ask them to please return these documents that belong to you and me and all americans. when you re looking for, george? well, i m going to be interested to see if they do contain more of a factual narrative that w
that is his summer residence. he s also about to meet in a few hours with several members of the republican study committee who are essentially rushing there to discuss what s going on. jim banks is the chairman of the rsd. he will be at bedminster. that s an aerial shot of the golf club. we ll keep a eye on the comings and goings and see if we hear anything from donald trump on all of this over the course of the afternoon. we saw a little reaction from him on truth social last night. we may get a public statement from him as we keep a close eye on who comes and goes from bedminster this afternoon. so the fbi, when you think about it, has been investigating donald trump for seven years. from the russia collusion days all the way until now. and this raid is likely just the beginning of the next stage in this story as it fires up the deepest entrenched forces for and against this most fiercely debated american president. he appears to have his eyes on the white house once again
and relying on the probable cause that the investigation had developed at the time, on august five, 2022, the government applied to magistrate judge reinhart for a search and seizure warrant which cited three states doses. willful retention of national retains, concealment removal of government records, obstruction of federal investigation, on the same day. judge reinhart found that probable cause existed that evidence of each of the crimes would be found at the premises and he authorized the search warrant. juliet cayenne? this is, there are two things going on at this part of the filing. the first is that they essentially are saying we did everything we could until we were at the moment when it became clear, this is important in the chronology, that some
does trust merrick garland. he wants to be able to say look, that s the justice department, not me. we ll talk to them. garland will say the matter is inestgation. martha: i want you to ask you about this tweet from a high profile democrat election lawyer. he was the main driver in passing laws across the country during covid to sort of reform the voting rules in various states and then also defending those against some of the election turnover issues or election question issues that came up after the election. he said the media is missing this really big reason why the raid is a potential blockbuster in american politics. he cites 18 u.s. code 2071, concealment removal or mutilation of documents, united