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Lying to you about whether i've turned it all over. that gets us to that statutory element of willfulness and intent that's required for the espionage statute. with regard to the time line, look, i'm looking back hear, and i know if we go off to another network that shall not be named, they're criticizing the government every night on this search. i'm going to criticize something here about the time line. it was too darn slow. it was too slow, so when you have a january to may time line before the fbi is getting their hands on this and doing an assessment and figuring out, you know, look, if y...

The list of crimes that were being investigated, which by the way, rudy giuliani is incorrect. the espionage statute specifically does, and here it is, it says that having or transmitting defence information. it does not say destroying. it so it is not a question about it didn't violate the law. it has that information. and then questions about probable cause are eliminated by the fact that whatever they knew in advance proved to be true because everything they were looking for was actually at mar-a-lago. and i think the fact of fbi agents weaving with 11 sets of top secret classified document...

Releasing this affidavit. and i don't think that donald trump even wants it released because in court yesterday his lawyers did not join in the media's request to release it. so he says one thing on truth social but another thing in the courtroom. >> and we've learned in court yesterday that this was a lengthy and detailed affidavit. we learned that the application for the warrant cites willful retention of defense information. does that sharpen the criminal focus do you think on the former president? because this is at his home where this occurred. >> re >> exactly. yes, it does. and i think ...

Up and down. you c can't use the espionage statute was used against ellsbergspio, everybody else. now, the same people who oppose the espionage statute are jumping up and down saying, wow, we have the espionage statute. we can now get trump. we might not have been able to get him previously, but we're going to use this statute which we hate and oppose for years tow try toe get trump.in and we're going tost try to disqualify him because we're going to amendry the constitutin and say the criteria for president running for office goes beyond the four criteria in the constitution. and congress can...

Sensitive compartmentalized information. this is information that, if released publicly, top secret information would cause exceptionally grave harm to the united states. that's at least one class of the documents that we're talking about here. and there are others that are slightly lower classification level than that. all three crimes sort of float around this idea of the mishandling, sharing, copying, perhaps distributing, perhaps making available to other people. we don't know because we haven't seen the affidavits yet. just looking at what the crimes might be, that's why they're sniffing ...