so, in just a few hours a judge will hear arguments over whether or not to unseal the affidavit behind the fbi s search of mar-a-lago, and tonight, cnn is learning that some trump allies are pushing him to publicly release surveillance video of the search. let s discuss now, cnn law enforcement analyst and former fbi dictated director andrew mccabe, he s the author of the threat, how the america fbi protects america in the age of terror and trump. kim whaley is here she is visiting professor of law at american university and the author of, how to think like a lawyer. i m so glad both of you are on. good evening, thank you so much. andrew, you know, we re talking about the former president here, threatening to release the surveillance video. wouldn t that put this investigation somehow in danger? especially the agents as well who are executing this search? sure, absolutely. there s a couple things the agents are gonna be really concerned about. first and foremost, focus on
hear arguments over whether or not to it and steal the fbi affidavit behind the fbi. cnn is learning that some trump allies are pushing him to publicly released surveillance video of the search. let s discuss now, with the senior law enforcement analyst and deputy director who is the author of the threat to how the fbi protects america in the age of terror. also, kim whaley is. her she is a busy professor of law at america university and the author of how to think like a lawyer. i m so glad both of you are on. good evening, thank you very much. so andrew we are talking about the former president here threatening to released surveillance video. wouldn t that put this investigation in danger somehow and in the agents who are sk executing the search warrant? there s a couple of things that they re gonna be concerned about. first and foremost, they re focused on the work. they go into that space to recover materials highly classified sensitive materials that shouldn t be in the
who are advancing trump s kind of efforts to undermine the validity of american elections? and she has put that out there, i have not really heard anyone else do it. including in georgia where there is a prominent election denier running along with those who did stand up for the election. lieutenant governor, cheney saying today that she s not ruling out a run for 2024. when you think about that? well, certainly there needs to be a lane to develop a common sense conservative that s got a track record of being conservative. and who s got it right. was able to tell the truth when it mattered the most, stood up for our country on january 5th and january 6th. and i think there will be a lean to develop, donald trump s high-water mark was 2016 when he won the election. every day he s lost support, not in a straight path, but incrementally he s lost support. he s got enough to win a short term election but enough republicans are waking up to
lieutenant governor, glad you re here. let s discuss with cheney s defeat, she lost in a landslide. is there room for politicians like her or you in trump s republican party? there is. with one exception, it s not gonna have to be trump s republican party. it s going to be the peoples republican party. and it s going to take time to get there, unfortunately, there was no surprise to liz cheney s defeat yesterday. you know, when a former president spends that much time and money and political capital on trying to defeat one of the most conservative members of that republican caucus, you might have a problem. but it s gonna take some time to get folks how do you get? they re not to cut you off. yeah, you tell the truth. the weight of reality is going to be right, it s gonna take us time to get there, you tell the truth and you put solutions on the table that fixes problems. it fixes joe biden s problems, it fixes americans problems, it fixes inflation, national security, immigrat
our republic. that was a path i could not, and would not take. liz cheney is in a dangerous species in the gop, but it wasn t always that way. harriet hageman, trump s choice to defeat cheney and wyoming s primary, was once so critical of trump that she worked with ted cruz in 2016, trying to force a vote at the republican convention, between trump and crews. and we know how that worked out. and she s not the only one who knuckled under to trump s stranglehold on the gop. remember this? donald, your civilly sniffling coward, leave hiding the alone. i ll tell you when i think of donald trump. this man is a pathological liar. he doesn t know the difference between truth and lies, he lies practically everywhere that comes out of his mouth. and a pattern that i think is straight out of a psychology textbook. his response is to accuse