oh, yeah, these are some of the documents, he wasn t in office a couple of months then. yeah, he s going to take documents with him to mar-a-lago. and if he can find a way to monetize them, he will. if it s just about saying, hey, i m still in and i can break the rules don t apply to me. he ll do that. he ll do both at the same time. the question is, as you said, time, we don t know what will happen in the judicial system. we don t know where this will go but one thing we know is there s some midterm elections. people can make sure that people that believe this is appropriate should not be elected to the senate or to the congress. people can decide in less than 90 days. one of my favorite things to do is scold people for engaging in false binaries like either/or. you just did it to me. no, both. he can be a narcissist, a baby, an idiot savant and machiavelli
thin air but it may be a storm is brewing. whatever the outcome, some day we ll get a glimpse of what mr. trump has been hiding in his gilded palace. presidents have few secrets that time will not reveal. harry, all of you can really field this question, but i ll start with you. tim weiner has great historical perspective, and he s right. but we don t really have generations to wait here. american democracy s on the line and we have a midterm election coming up. is there any way in which this thing the wheels of justice and the processes that normally take so long in this era, is there a way to speed this up so we can get the answers we need to keep this democracy afloat? well, look, reinhart is thinking in these terms. he s a, you know, long-time doj guy, and yet, he said, there s a strong public need to know. the actual nitty-gritty of the national security stuff, no. it s going to take a long time. everything else, by the way, we
as is my wont when there are matters of law at stake. i ve said it many times for the last two weeks that i m not a lawyer but i ll ask this question. christina bobb last night, when laura ingraham said, why didn t you file anything? she said, we chose to see how it would play out. is that how it works in court, generally, when you re an interested party in a legal proceeding? you don t file anything and just choose to see how it plays out? has that been your experience in litigation in the past? yeah, i think your legal term, hamina, hamina is the apt translation. once again, the courts have been the ultimate maybe the only backstop to the truth here, right? this is the rudy giuliani, oh, it s not a fraud case. remember sidney powell, nobody could ever believe what i said, in defense of defamation. god bless the courts and penalties for perjury that
we re back with joel and symone. guys, we don t have much time so i m going to ask you both the same question. it seems to me a huge deal. there s definitely democratic momentum. we see it, 46-42 on the generic ballot, not a bad place for democrats to be in a midterm year. joel, i ll start with you and save the same question for symone. this trump news is a big deal that s going to have big political consequences. trump has generally been seen as good for democrats in terms of motivating the base. what do you do what should democrats, the biden white house and democrats do, if donald trump gets indicted between now and election day? how do you handle that as a matter of messaging and strategy? this may be counter to what a lot of democrats think, but 46-42 is not great for democrats in the generic. to win in the midterms, democrats have to be ahead by eight points consistently from labor day on. i think what democrats have to do is focus on the contrast they can make with republica
misconduct and why he did it, that will come out, either in charges or that part of the affidavit. tracy, we ve all been on this kind of crazy train together for the last two weeks since this story broke, and i keep thinking about this, rather than doing a week in review section or session, we should be doing hike a fortnight in review. as we sit here on this friday and you have been paying attention to this story and analyzing it, i m curious about what you feel like the big questions are, beyond the one central one, which is still, we don t know. why did donald trump have these documents down at mar-a-lago? what are the questions on your mind as we head into the weekend that you would most like to know the answers to that we have some chance of actually getting the answers to in a reasonable time frame? so, i think that that s an excellent question. my biggest thing and the issue i ve spoken about really all along is i m coming at it from my cia perspective, and i worked counteri