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At nbc news but there's no reason to dispute it, the letter says that the documents they found in january included top secret, sensitive department information, special access programs. so the most sensitive documents in the u.s. government. we're talking about january. so it wasn't as barbara pointed out, until august that the justice department went to the extra step of getting the search warrant and doing the search. so there was a long time that they knew some very sensitive documents had been found at mar-a-lago, jose. >> and barbara, one of the things that stuck out from trump's lawsuit ...

The heat is building up. the pressure is building up. whatever i can do to take the heat down, to bring the pressure down, just let us know. congressman eric swalwell is a democrat of california, a member of the house intelligence committee. he joins me now. congressman, this sort of threat was reported, i believe, in the new york times earlier. the president committing it to print now in a court filing. what is your reaction to that? >> merrick garland, chris, it's not going to be threatened. that is clearly the case here. this is a position, it's also clear he does not want to be in. but the...

This is the message they said was delivered to the attorney general. president trump wants the attorney general to know that he has been hearing from people all over the country about the raid. if there was one word to describe their mood, it is angry. the heat is building up, the pressure is building up, whatever i can do to take the heat down, to bring the pressure down, just let us know. what do you think donald trump was trying to say here? do you see that message as threatening? >> yeah, well, my guess is that how you interpret that message probably depends in large part about how you per...

Them. they were just using it to delay the situation, to frustration and obstruct the ongoing investigation. so while deference is entirely appropriate, it was abused in this case. >> stephanie, in terms of the messaging of the former president, i just wonder what you hear in this letter that his representatives sent to attorney general merrick garland. i'll read some of it. president trump wants the attorney general to know that he has been hearing from people, capitalized, all over the country about the raid. if there was one word to describe their mood, it is angry. the heat is building up....

>> we have to talk about this part. many perplexing things in this filing, the 27-page filing. one of them is confirmation that trump did, in fact, try to get a message to the attorney general, merrick garland. the message said according to the filing that the heat is building, the pressure is building. whatever i can do to take the heat down, to bring the pressure down, just let us know. so he sent that message to garland. meanwhile, he is attacking the fbi agents who conducted the search. he is attacking the justice department publicly. what do you make of that? >> i mean, the way you frame ...