asked to turn those security cameras off when this search occurred and refused to do so. i want to read to you what one person close to former president trump told us when we asked do you think that this is a good idea? should he release these tapes? here is what that person said. quote, it s one thing to read a bunch of numbers on an inventory list, it s another to see law enforcement agents actually carrying a dozen plus boxes out of president trump s home knowing they probably contain sensitive documents. i don t see how that helps him. so, again, this has drawn mixed reactions inside the former president s orbit with some aides saying it s a good idea, release the footage, get it out there. among those steve bannon the former white house chief strategist to president trump. others saying we should hold back. maybe continue to tease this but don t ever actually release the footage, brianna. look, it depends on where you re looking at this from. for the people who think t
donald trump s supporters who say maybe this was planted by the fbi a bunch of boxes might not look so bad to you so we could be seeing this cut both ways. gabby, thank you for that report. so joining us now is david sc schoen, he was a lawyer for former president trump during his second impeachment trial and he is now representing steve bannon in his contempt of congress case. counselor, thank you so much for being with us this morning. you ve got experience representing donald trump so i m curious have you been approached to work on this case, the classified documents case? well, i don t want to go into too many details, but i was approached a couple months ago about being a liaison with the justice department. it wasn t for me, it doesn t suit my skill set. i wasn t particularly interested in that. but, you know, i certainly know evan corcoran quite well and he was hired to be my local counsel in the bannon case so i do the to know him through that. i didn t know him beforehand,