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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 ....
It s gonna have grandeur information. not something that typically gets disclosed, if at all. and if it, is it is much later in the process. not now, and it s for a first amendment purpose. there s news that want this as well. but for donald, trump, again i think it s just rhetoric. this is just to confuse people and divert them off the real issue. i, heard andrew, that the argument that this is different. the american people need to know. there s too much going on. this is unprecedented, of course the affidavit is going to be released unless someone is charged, correct, is that correct? that s correct. do you think that this is different this time that it should be. certainly, the circumstances are unique. but not unique enough to trump all of the very serious for keeping this document seal. i think doj laid it out, in their opposition. that there is a danger in telegraphing there where there is a risk of providing ....
As far as, i can t really add four more andrew said, but from a legal perspective, certainly this creates and feeds this narrative that somehow it is the fbi and the doj that are the bad guys are. , and we need to pivot off of that and back on the fact that is that donald trump stole classified information from the american people and from the white house. and despite multiple attempts to get it, back he wouldn t give it back. and the question really is what happened to it, who else saw it, how compromised, potentially, is the american public in this moment? if this were to benefit him, why wouldn t he have released it already? i think there s probably a dilemma within the trump camp is to whether or not it actually benefits him, right? so it s good for him in the way that kim just mentioned. it s able to kind of stoke the fire of this grievance and this terrible perceived defense of the federal agents abiding by a court order, doing their jobs but doing it in the presidents house. ....