goe rhythmic traders. they do the key word searches and they see something positive the market goes up and something negative the market goes down. there is not as much direct human trading as we used to see which is why we re seeing increased volatility. china came out and said it s not that big a deal. the president came back and said companies can stay in china if we reach a deal. they can t if we don t. so there is as the ambassador said kind of this cognitive thing on a daily basis and the markets respond to every tweet. sadly. looking through all of this it doesn t seem like that much progress is being made. it does seem like tensions have been escalated and have not yet de-escalated between the two countries. the president can still put tariffs on japanese autos or european cars, so those questions remain as well. from a wall street perspective i don t think anyone really cares whether the leaders got along. they do care if there is substantive progress on key issues which, agai
soros was a funder of a big liberal group. he is in charge of everything if you go on the internet. you ve done a lot of study on this. yeah. so i think that when you have characters that are involved politically and run, you know, $18 billion foundations across the world, i think that it gives you a good back story and it gives you a lot of fuel to build out other conspiracies that are politically related and especially ones that might influence or tend to affect voting in an election or to start a controversy like the one we ve seen with the soros-funded caravan. here s what i don t understand. you re finding this stuff pretty easy. we have found this stuff pretty easy. i saw another journalist say he did a few key word searches and found all of these threats. why do the social media companies pretend they re paralyzed on all of this? i think it s to be fair to them, i think the challenge is
hundred, thousands in days. you hit exactly on the issue. the numbers get huge very quickly. because you have e-mail chains, e-mail chains that slit off with different conversations. sometimes you get an e-mail and foe whole chain to one other person. and two of you an an e-mail that originally had a conversation on the side. each of the eails is generally a separate document. and so that s how these numbers, 4 million is not surprising to me if you were going to raid a law office that you would get that many, particularly electronic files. every text, phone call, all all that stuff is going to create its own document in the system. these days it s a lot easier. most of it is electronically searchable. you can do word searches. it doesn t strike me as a crazy durham of documents in a law office. what about the percentage of documents that are privileged. the impression we have is a lot of this stuff is privileged.
look at the clinton investigation, the number goes down from 1.2 million to about 400,000; is that right. it goes down a lot less. i m not prepared to say what that number is yet. i m just getting started. i think it goes down substantially. bret: if you do basic word searches, it goes down even more? and that s the hope. figure out the way to identify the most relevant materials as quickly as we can so you give congress what it s entitled to so they can do their job. bret: fbi director he is said i m doubling the staff to cover 8:00 a.m. to midnight to expedite completion of this project. it is april 10th, 15 days later. you have capitol hill up in arms that they can t get these documents. there is frustration up there. there is frustration from the president. what is taking so long? right. so, i mean, based on my experience both as a prosecutor and then a private practice beforehand, document review, they can just take time. one of the reasons they take
there s new e-mails and find out what s in them. so i do think it makes sense. the fbi has hundreds of engineers and programmers. trump s argument that it was impossible doesn t seem to stand up to scrutiny. if you read the the new york times yesterday, he doesn t use a computer and he doesn t really know too much about it. so maybe he doesn t know how google or key word searches work. is this better on balance for the clinton campaign? when this broke yesterday, i thought for a second, this just makes e-mails a story again for a few hours albeit one that is better for hillary clinton but do you think they welcome this in the last 24 hours? on balance is definitely better. brian is right. those nine days you don t get back and anything that happens in the last 72 hours of the campaign very hard for voters to absorb, let me tell you, you d better have an upper trajectory than a downward one.