what did we learn from the unsealed affidavit? let s bring our panel also journal columnist dan henninger and kempster also part columnist in manhattan senior fellow jason riley. kim, you have had a chance to go through this document. what have we learned? here s what we learned, paul in terms of a timeline. apparently there was extensive discussion for the national archives and the trump team about the retrieval of some documents they felt along to others at the presidential record act with the archives. fifteen boxes of those were delivered to the archives in january. in february the archives at a referral to the department of justice because they said they had found classified information in the boxes. sometime after that the fbi start a criminal investigation. fast-forward up until may when there is discussion with the trump team about getting a hole of more of this information. at some point the department of justice seemed to feel as though there was a risk there were
everyone into the dark in terms of what real evidence you have and then engage in basically prosecution by leak. i think this really is an interesting situation. are they going to file charges or not or let this linger and allow the accusations to flow? one other thing that s interesting in this, it becomes clear the president voluntarily sent these 15 boxes to the archives. the affidavit reveals these classified documents were intermingled among photos and newspaper clippings. that does not sound like some sort of smart operation to whisk away classified documents so that you can sell them to a foreign nation. it sounds like may be sloppy handling may be. also got a letter from the president s team to the fbi saying hey he had the authority to declassify. all this raises questions about why a huge scale fbi investigation? and the heavy-handed rate approach. paul: make thank you while we combat the backwashing it s