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I m curious what it was. now we know it was the case between the special counsel s office, the people velgting january 6th and donald trump. and twitter. and what happened was in january, the special counsel investigators went to twitter and they said we have a search warrant, and we would like data and records related to donald trump s twitter account. at that time, they didn t comply right away. twitter had had some sort of hiccups. they took a little time. they faced a fine of $350,000 for delaying producing those records. then why this ended up in court is because the justice department didn t want twitter to tell donald trump that they were seeking this information and they won that ability not to have twitter disclose to donald trump the client of twitter as the account holder that the search was going to be taking place. and the reason is really interesting. it s outlined here in the court that they went before believed ....
Tlchs reasonable grounds to say that if they were to tell donald trump they were doing this search, it could seriously jeopardize the ongoing investigation. he could potentially want to destroy evidence, change patterns of behavior or notify confederates. there s also a footnote about how there was a discussion of whether he might flee from prosecution if he knew the search was being discussed. the justice department walked that back, but that was something that the judge also had to look at. would donald trump flee. because they wanted to look at his twitter? okay. what do you make of this given your experience as a prosecutor? i was just reading the opinion. it would have been better if elon musk had not fired his entire legal team. they might have done better. they had a right to talk about ....
Unreasonable. reporter: yeah. tell me about the why about this and could this date move still and yet again? reporter: yeah, so, kate, trial dates they do move. the question now for us to watch is how firm this trial date will be. both sides can try to push it further from that, but this starting point right now it is a judge s order that we do have a trial date for late may. she gives a little bit of an indication of why may, right, that s going to be a big question. it s about a year from the moment that trump was indicted alongside nauta, which was june 8th. so the end of may really is a year timeline. that s pretty reasonable in a lot of court cases. this case, she says, is complex. that was something the justice department didn t want her to find for legal reasons, but she is saying it is indeed complex. and she also is saying that, you know, she doesn t want to do what trump said. she wants to put a date on the calendar because she deems it necessary to manage this proceedi ....
This report there wasn t great organization or delineation of responsibility in this building at the state department. one of the things that they point out is that there wasn t someone on the seventh floor here in the building dealing with crisis management for this. and the seventh floor is where the secretary of state sits. there also wasn t a task force that was setup early enough to bring folks to the table to discuss what could be these crisis scenarios they would face as they were preparing for withdrawal. when idea the pentagon saying for that non-combatant evacuation option there wasn t a person at the state department coordinating with that pentagon effort and so that created confusion as well according to this report. so there s quite a few things the department didn t do this report gets into that are significant and also makes recommendations for how this department can better prepare for crises going forward like getting the operation center ....
Potent and activating issue as the republicans clearly think it is? yeah, i think it raises some questions about whether it will be in the future, because now, you know, the biden white house and campaign will be able to point to the absence of federal charges on the allegations that are being made by house republicans to say that the justice department didn t charge those things. at least not as far as we know at this moment, they did not charge these things, and if there is enough evidence, perhaps they would have. i do think that this is going to bring this whole saga right back where it was probably always going to end up being which is in the political realm. these capitol hill investigations don t have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. they don t have to have enough evidence that would lead to an actual conviction by a jury of hunter biden s peers. they can simply ask questions. they can raise topics. ....