RACHEL: THE HEAVILY REDACTED
AFFIDAVIT BEHIND THE RAID ON
MAR-A-LAGO HAS BEEN RELEASED.
IT WAS ALLOWING TRUMP TO SEND
LETTERS WITH KIM JONG-UN THROUGH
FEDEX.
FROM THE UN-REDACTED PART, WHICH
ISN’T MUCH IN THE AFFIDAVIT,
WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED ABOUT
PROBABLE CAUSE FOR THE DOJ?
>> YEAH, THERE’S THREE VERY
PROBLEMATIC THINGS WITH THE
AFFIDAVIT.
FOR ME, THE FIRST IS THAT IT
SHOWS THAT THIS WAS ABOUT
GETTING STUFF AND NOT ABOUT
NATIONAL SECURITY.
REALLY NATIONAL SECURITY IS THE
ONLY THING THAT I THINK MOST
AMERICANS WOULD HAVE BOUGHT AS A
POTENTIAL REASON TO GO INTO THE
PRESIDENT’S HOME.
THERE’S NO REASON THE NAGS GNAT
SECURITY WAS IMMINENTLY OR
FUTURE AT RISK.
SECONDLY, I DON’T SEE PROBABLE
CAUSE FOR A CRIME.
THE CRIMES THAT THE FBI IS
CHARGING OR THINKING ABOUT HERE
CAN’T BE COMMITTED ACCIDENTLY,
THEY CAN’T BE COMMITTED
MISTAKENLY, AND THE FBI KNOWS
THAT TRUMP BELIEVES HE
DECLASSIFIED THESE DOCUMENTS AND
THESE DOCUMENTS ARE HIS.
SO EVEN IF HE’S MISTAKEN ABOUT
THAT OR EVEN IF HE COULD BE
MISTAKEN ABOUT THAT, THAT’S NOT
ENOUGH TO CHARGE SOMETHING UNDER
THE ESPIONAGE ACT AND CHARGING
WILLINGLY AND THIRD, THIS GOES
TO WILL’S POINT FROM EARLIER IS
THAT I DO HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT
OUR DEMOCRACY HERE AND THE
CONSTITUTION VETS THE POWER OF
THE EXECUTIVE POWER IN THE
PRESIDENT AND NOT A BUREAUCRAT
AND THIS IS A VENDETTA TO GET
STUFF.
JOE BIDEN DOESN’T NEED THE
DOCUMENTS TO DO HIS JOB, BUT
BECAUSE HE’S A BUREAUCRAT THAT
GETS HIS SELF-WORTH FROM PEOPLE
FOLLOWING HIS DIRECTIONS.
RACHEL: YEAH, I NEVER THOUGHT
BUREAUCRATS AT THE NATIONAL
ARCHIVES COULD HAVE THE POWER TO
TRIGGER THE RAID OF AN ELECTED
PRESIDENT AND IN HIS HOME AND
WITH, YOU KNOW, JUST FULL ACCESS
OF HIS HOME AND HISS WIFE’S
BEDROOM AND CLOSET.
WHO KNEW THE BUREAUCRATS HAD
THIS KIND OF POWER.
>> YEAH, I KNOW.
THE OTHER THING AS YOU WERE
SAYING IS ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NATIONAL
SECURITY IS THE ARK VIES WAS
GOING TO BE OKAY -- ARCHIVIST
GOING TO BE OKAY WITH THE
PRESIDENT’S LAWYER FEDEXES
DOCUMENTS AS IF HOW FEDEX IS
SOMEHOW SAFER AS A SECRET
SERVICE PROTECTED BUILDING
OVERSEEN BY A MAN RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE NATIONAL SECURITY FOR
FOUR YEARS, WHERE WE WERE VERY
SECURE.
RACHEL: YEAH, IN THE ORIGINAL --
RIGHT AFTER THE RAID, MADE IT
SOUND LIKE THERE WERE NUCLEAR
CODES OR NUCLEAR ISSUE, NOTHING
IN THE AFFIDAVIT THAT ALLUDES TO
THAT THAT WE CAN SEE.
>> NO, NOTHING THAT WE CAN SEE,
AS YOU’RE RIGHT.
THEY BLACK OUT SEVERAL PAGES BUT
THE INTRO OF THE AFFIDAVIT IS
VERY INTERESTING TO ME BECAUSE
IT AFFIRMS THAT THIS WAS ABOUT
THE ARCHIVIST THAT DIDN’T GET
ENOUGH BOXES BACK.
WHAT WAS IN THE FIRST 15 BOXES
HAD HE?
GOLF BALLS, A RAZOR, A RAIN
JACKET AND VERY OLD, DATED
CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS AND NO
INDICATION ANY OF THESE
DOCUMENTS WERE POSING ANY RISK
TO ANYBODY.
RACHEL: TALKING ABOUT
CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THIS, IT’S
INTERESTING TO KNOW IT WAS THE
NATIONAL ARCHIVES THAT PUT
TRIGGER WARNINGS ON THE FOUNDING
DOCUMENTS INCLUDING THE
CONSTITUTION AND WORRIED IT
MIGHT OFFEND PEOPLE.
SO, AGAIN, MAY GREAT POINTS AND