Speaker 1: All right. Some extraordinarily explosive new allegations that have surfaced
in the last 24 hours regarding the former guy. That guy, the orange menace, Mango,
Mussolini, whatever. Right. You know, the guy I'm talking about. The first is that failed. Former
President Donald Trump asked his lawyer to lie to the government for him. And this is just an
unbelievable story. Bess Levin from Vanity Fair reporting surprise Trump, a pathological liar,
reportedly asked his lawyer to lie to the government about his classified document,
Cash. The ex-president wanted his lawyer to say he'd returned everything in February, which was
obviously not the case. This relates directly to the other Trump lawyer, Christina Bobb,
who eventually did make the claim that everything was returned. It was a lie. And as I told you on,
I believe, Monday, she has now lawyered up. Maga making attorneys get attorneys best,
Levin writes in quoting The Washington Post. The Washington Post reports that in early 22,
the ex-president asked Alex Cannon, an attorney who had worked for both the Trump Organization
and the Trump campaign, to tell the National Archives and Records Administration that all
materials requested by the agency had been turned over, despite the fact that Trump was still in
possession of thousands more government documents. Now, another thing we learned yesterday is Trump
personally packed a bunch of those documents, but we will get to that. But the point is, Trump knew
the documents hadn't been returned because he had them okay. According to the Post, Cannon, who had,
quote, facilitated the January transfer of 15 boxes of presidential records from Mar a Lago
to the National Archives. After Archives officials agitated for more than a year to get all original
presidential records did not feel comfortable making such a claim. In other words, it was a lie.
He reportedly told people he didn't know if all the requested material had been returned and
quote, Other Trump advisers also encouraged Cannon not to make such a definitive statement. Did
Cannon hesitate because he was aware of the fact Trump had a long history of lying about everything
all the time? Who is to say? Cannon didn't respond to the Post's request for a comment. So think
about how absurd this story has gotten. We still don't really know the motive for why Donald Trump
kept these top secret and other documents. We don't know where the ones that are still missing
to this day went. That's another story. There's a dozen layers to this. We have the picture.
Of the folders for top secret and otherwise restricted documents which were empty when the FBI
found them. Obviously, Donald Trump didn't take empty folders, meaning the documents are somewhere
and we don't know where are they? At Bedminster. Another one of Donald Trump's clubs, golf clubs,
whatever you want to call them. We don't know why. But the point is, not only do we not know
the whereabouts of some of those documents, we still don't really know the motive for taking them
because the stories we've been told don't make any sense. Trump wanted it for his library. He
never talks about his library. He doesn't care about his library. Trump wanted them to read.
Trump doesn't read. Trump wanted them in order to write his memoirs. Trump doesn't write. There's no
plausible, innocent reason why he would want those. And then you get into the not so innocent
reasons which include selling them or whatever the case may be. The other aspect to this is
that, remember, the Justice Department thought the situation was serious enough
to conduct a search warrant at Mar a Lago. Now, this isn't a criticism of that decision. This
is just a reminder that if the Justice Department felt this was that serious.
There may have been reason they believed something was about to happen with these documents. If the
impetus for the search warrant was less about we're imminently charging Trump, but more about we
have reason to believe he's about to do something with these documents, then that would be a whole
other area of exploration. But then there's. Trump wanted his lawyer to lie. Trump knew the
documents hadn't been returned, and he instructed his lawyer to lie. His lawyer didn't do it.
Alex Cannon. Eventually, Christina Bobb, another lawyer, was willing to make that claim on paper,
and she has now obtained a lawyer and is willing to cooperate with the Department of Justice. And
she herself is facing possible legal trouble. And then the next part of this is something else we
learned yesterday. Trump personally packed a stash of documents to take to his house.