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And so there are a number of different potential violations that led to this warrant. and let's not forget, there was a subpoena that donald trump and his people blew off before the search warrant was even sought. so, there was ample opportunity to turn this over. i say all that to say, all of the fire storm that has resulted from this has been based in a baseless [inaudible] does not have any real [inaudible] in fact. >> yeah, frank, i want to ask you about the big news today, which is that the chairs of the house intelligence and oversight committees requesting the damage assessment from the...

The fire storm that has resulted from this has been based in a baseless [inaudible] it does not have any real [inaudible] in fact. >> yeah, frank, i want to ask you about the big news today, which is that the chairs of the house intelligence and oversight committees requesting a damages has been from the director of national intelligence from the documents seized. can you give us a sense of what damages testament entails? what it is they could be looking for? at it is they >> yeah, well, wel understandably focused on potential criminality here. i've got to tell you, the concern among intellige...

Mar-a-lago last night always seemed like a possibility, but don't let that detract from the truly historic nature of what we're now seeing play out right in front of us, something we might very well end up telling our descendents about. never before in american history has the fbi searched the home of a former commander in chief. for that reason, the department of justice has a very high bar to clear. the burden will be on the government, not only to explain what it was looking for with this search but why search was required, why they couldn't get it some other way, either through cooperation...

I felt like last night -- i don't mean that garland is trying to send a signal, and i also don't mean that i think garland is telling us he's going to prosecute, indict trump on the january 6th charges, but i think he is telling us that he doesn't care about the firestorm. he doesn't care about what kind of political controversy he's going to unleash. if he's going to do it on this case, given what we've seen, it sort of to me indicates this is a guy who is implicitly saying, i'm -- i really am going to decide this on the law. if there's a case to be made against donald trump, i'm doing it. >>...

Garland from the beginning, he's been focused on trying to repair the damage that the justice department suffered in the trump era, the view that it was no longer independent in the way the justice department normally is, even though it is a political appointee who runs it. he's been trying to fix that, trying to make sure his reputation for independence get restored. knowing what kind of a political firestorm this was going to set off, it must have taken a fair amount to get him to take this step. is that not kind of the obvious conclusion here, it must be serious if merrick garland is going ...