Maybe several hours worth of surveillance footage that the former president has in
his hands because as we know, when FBI agents arrived on the scene,
they asked to turn the cameras off.
We're told that it's pretty standard, not that unusual of an ask by sources inside
the Justice Department, but they did make that request, and
that is not something that was granted by the officials on the ground at Mar-A-Lago.
And so now, it is in the hands of the former president and
his attorneys, this surveillance footage of what happened at Mar-A-Lago that day.
>> Mere days after Trump said that he would want to turn down the heat toward
federal officials, especially considering all of the death threats and
acts of violence toward them, he's now threatening to release surveillance
footage of FBI officials raiding his Mar-A-Lago residents.
Now, of course, they were raiding his residents because he had taken
home with him top secret and classified documents that
are only supposed to be reviewed in secure government facility.
Some of those documents pertained to nuclear weapons and information about
them, so you can understand the sensitivity of those documents.
But nonetheless, the FBI officials asked him to turn off surveillance cameras.
Of course, he didn't do it, at least, that's what he's alleging, and
now he's threatening to release the surveillance.
Why is this a big deal?
Well, just consider the threats that are already being targeted toward
FBI officials, towards members of the DOJ, toward the federal judge
who signed the warrant necessary to do the raid in the first place.
The video would presumably show the faces of agents after
the names of two of them already leaked.
And Trump's temper tantrum unfortunately doesn't stop there,
he also shared an article on his truth social page that basically
refers to the FBI as the Fascist Bureau of Investigation.
And he links to a piece that was written at spectator.org by former CNN
contributor Jeffrey Lord, who eventually got fired because he's a terrible person.
But nonetheless, he's again directing more hatred and violence toward the FBI
through his threats, through his posts on Truth Social, this is who he is.
And he might have just gotten a massive gift from another federal judge,
who is apparently willing to unseal portions of the affidavit that would
maybe reveal who the FBI informant close to him is, and maybe we'll
find out that it is Melania Trump as I had suspected, but we don't know.
The worry here is that if he does that, then the person who is revealed
to have been the FBI informant will suffer some serious risks.
>> Yeah, alright, so
let me tell you the potentially surprising upside of this news.
Okay, so I'm actually a little bit excited about first,
I don't think they should do it.
I think revealing the video in the face of the FBI agents puts them in grave
risk, why?
Because the right wing in this country is totally unhinged.
Is it possible that they would then do a terrorist attack against our own FBI?
>> It's not like that.
>> Of course, they will, and Trump knows that, everybody in the right-wing knows
that, they don't think every right-winger is going to go try to kill those FBI.
They just think somebody's gonna try to kill them.
We don't need 300 million people to try to kill them,
we just need three guys to try to kill them.
So that's called stochastic terrorism, where they ask basically through their
actions implicitly for random acts of terrorism, and when it's Donald Trump,
he almost always receives it.
So that's a terrible downside, and why I'm not in favor of it overall.
But the potential upside is number one, they said the FBI,
the original excuse was the FBI planted the files.
Oops, you videotape them and on the videotape,
you will see that they did not plant the files.
Now, Trump is in possession of the tape,
the FBI is not in possession of the tape, and so Trump might try to edit the tape.
But if he does, then the FBI is gonna say well, now it's evidence and you have
to give us the whole tape, knowing Trump, he'll probably destroy the tape,
which is another significant to massive crime if any other person did it, okay?
Or of course, Trump can get away with it probably and the CIA can get away with it,
and that's about it, okay?
So that sets them up for potentially either turning over the videotape,
which could be very helpful or destroying evidence, which could also be helpful.
If we had any prosecutors who had any courage at all in the entire country,
that leads to the second reason why this might be an upside.
Well, if they release the faces, everybody after at the FBI is going to be livid,
and they work with the Department of Justice all the time.
And Anthony Department of Justice say,
if you're not gonna prosecute this son of bitch after our lives are in danger for
doing our job, we're gonna have massive goddamn problems.
Okay, look it might be nothing, but I know the internal bureaucracies and
how Washington thinks.
When you have groupthink and when you have a cultural shift and
when people are buzzing about something, it affects them tremendously.
So if inside the Department of Justice there's a feeling that garland,
not outside pressure, internal pressure, that garland is a coward.
If he doesn't prosecute, it's gonna create pressure for him to prosecute, so
that's another piece of his last one.
Prosecutors have been so
afraid to go after Donald Trump because of this kind of pressure.
But if Trump is getting them to release parts of the affidavit and
it reveals their case, he might be accidentally forcing their hand.
They can't keep it hidden anymore because the number one go to move
prosecutors do is, we have evidence but it's not enough to prosecute,
wink like Manhattan DA has been doing for years now.
They have him dead to rights on campaign finance violations for
the hush money to the poor porn stars and Alvin Bragg and every other Diego's,
golly gee, you can't see the evidence but trust me it's not enough,
which is nonsense, of course, it's enough, right?
We've seen it, we know what it is publicly.
In this case, once the affidavit is revealed and
we know what you were going for, it makes it way harder to backpedal and say,
we had secret evidence that we couldn't prosecute.
No, now, it'll be public.
>> Okay, I see you that that's actually a really great point.
>> Alright, one out of three there.
>> Yeah, like, >> [LAUGH]
>> No, you made lots of good points but
that one is extremely good.
>> Yeah, I think Trump is screwing up by forcing their hand.
>> I mean, Trump screwed up by forcing their hand and
like unsealing the warrant, right?
>> Yeah, and also Trump screwed up by not giving the documents back.
Dude, you already tried to sell them to wherever you tried to sell them to,
or they already know, so now you can't go out and be like hello Saudi Arabia,
I have some documents, they're gonna catch you, so
why don't you just give it back once they knew that you had it?
He's too stupid, that's the answer.
>> He was subpoenaed two months prior to the raid to return the documents.
I mean they did everything, they could, they were incredibly patient.
Let me just say if you were facing any type of investigation involving treason,
you would not be given two months to comply on anything.
>> If you had nuclear our nuclear secrets in your basement,
you'd be given about two goddamn seconds to comply.
And if you didn't, you would be in, not just massive throw,
your life would be in significant danger.
Trump is like la la la la la, you guys know I have them,
you guys know I'm an idiot and a crook who's trying to sell them, lu lu lu lu,
I'm not gonna give it back.
I mean, look guys, forget the evil and immoral and illegal part of it,
you idiot, if you gave it back, there's no way they could have prosecuted you.
They already know you have them, you can't sell them anymore, you moron.
He's like no, I'm gonna keep it, I don't think I'm smarter than them and excuse,
you can secretly sell it, the world's dumbest criminal.
Someone finally put him away for God's sake.
>> I just think it would be really helpful for him to surround himself with lawyers
who just say yes to everything that he wants to do.
You know legal counsel that just nods their head and
said yes daddy Trump, yes, please do that.
That's a great idea, like anyone else would not surround themselves with
lawyers who give them poor advice.
But Donald Trump has done just that because he loves to be surrounded by yes
men, and there is reporting to indicate that his lawyer lied to the DOJ about
Trump's possession of these documents in the first.
>> I guarantee you Trump told him to lie,
I guarantee that's what he does every time.
>> Not little boy or girl, the lawyer did it.
>> And, of course, the idiot Trump is,
no tell him I don't have it they'll never find it in the basement.
[LAUGH] >> Okay, good luck with that.