he embraced the called and said it was perfect. that is where we landed of unprecedented revelations since the fbi agents executed a lawful search warrant at mar-a-lago and came away with 11 celsets of documents the former president was not allowed to have. rudy giuliani has made the perfect phone call excuse. now they want to make him responsible for having taken classified documents and preserved them. really if you look at the espionage act, it s not really about taking the documents, it s about destroying them or hiding them or giving them to the enemy. right. it s not about taking them and putting them in a places that roughly as safe as they were in in the first place. taking classified documented, some marked classified sci is as unsafe as keeping them in the national a rrchives and west wi. the espionage act actually does refer specifically to willfully retaining documents and failing to deliver them on demand to the federal employee or officer entitled to rec
bad news. lindsey graham in his attempts to dodge a subpoena to appear before the fulton county grand jury in an effort to overturn the election results in georgia. a federal judge refusing to put a hold on the ruling. we re also getting new information about concerns inside the biden white house and the intelligence community about classified information taken to mar-a-lago. joining me now to discuss legal analyst and federal prosecutor elliot waylens and also joining us palm beach county state attorney dave aaronberg. we have a whole law firm spread happening right now. i love it. who are we billing right now? we don t know. i ll begin with you, elliot, here. it is just a week ago we learned from the court that trump was keeping top secret, highly classified documents at mar-a-lago. then we find out the doj interviewed two top white house lawyers about it. early next week we may learn what is in the affidavit that made it so urgent for them to seize this material. when yo
attorney rudy giuliani has made the perfect phone call excuse. now they want to make him responsible for having taken classified documents and preserved them. really if you look at the espionage act, it s not really about taking the documents, it s about destroying them or hiding them or giving them to the enemy. right. it s not about taking them and putting them in a places that roughly as safe as they were in in the first place. taking classified documented, some marked classified sci is as unsafe as keeping them in the national archives and west wing. the espionage act actually does refer specifically to willfully retaining documents and failing to deliver them on demand to the federal employee or officer entitled to receive them. as we said, this perfect phone call excuse has come after an evolution of excuses made by the former president s supporters for having the files stashed at a country club. here s his youngest song the evening after the search. my father
make men more responsible fathers. that s one argument made to our report, you ll want to hear the exchange for yourself. good evening, i m erin burnett, out front on this friday, deep concern, white house officials privately expressing what s described as deep concern over classified documents found at trump s mar-a-lago home. the white house has remained silent publicly, but cnn learning tonight that behind closed doors it s a very different story. concerns are mounting that the information found at mar-a-lago could put sources and methods of the u.s. intelligence committee at risk, and part of that concern is likely stemming from the new documents released by a federal judge relating to the search of mar-a-lago. these are the papers that contained specific information about what the department of justice is investigating in terms of potential offenses. the words right here in that document under the search is related to a violation of, you see this line, willful retention
just so proud of him for his strength and all the prayers and love and support we ve received from so many around the world. easton, nicknamed tank by some who know him was watching from his hospital bed, awake and alert to see this message. go tank. go tank. tank s team lost but he is miraculously truly on the mend. and that s for joining us. it s time for anderson. good evening. and welcome to what might be called the perfect phone call stage involving the former president. perfect phone call was the call that got him impeached. he called it a perfect phone call after his supporters and enablers made a slew of excuses, none of which held up.