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First, I personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. Second, the department does not take such a decision lightly.

I`ve asked for the deployment of the guard as long as we need the guard to deal with the humanitarian crisis that we expect to escalate.

He`s absolutely justified. The search it was justified and obviously produced fruits exactly what garlic thought would be found. They found it.

What in the world was he doing with top secret electronic intercepts and information about the French president and stuff like that.

The President had a habit of asking to retain sensitive documents. And from time to time, he did that and we didn`t know what happened to them.

Without fear or favor, under my watch, that is precisely what the Justice Department is doing.

He liked cool things. He saw things that he -- so he wanted to take them and he was pretty much able to take them and not just on classified information matters, on all kinds of things that crossed his desk.

Faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the Justice Department and of our democracy. Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly without fear or favor.

Merrick Garland has to assess the damage done, and then decide whether to charge the former president with a crime, based on one of the three federal offenses that are listed in the search warrant.

The most important question is, why in the world was Trump hoarding these materials? What has he already done? And what was he planning to do?

When a document is declassified, it`s not just declassified as to Donald Trump. It`s declassified for the whole world.

Merrick Garland had personally approved the search. That's something he told us last week in an extraordinary press conference. But what we reported is that that decision came after weeks of deliberation and it was certainly not one that…

I think that claim is almost certainly a lie. I was never aware of anything even remotely approximating that policy and I haven't heard anything of it since I left. So I think this is made up and I think a key point here is when somebody…

It strongly suggests that Donald Trump is the subject of a grand jury investigation at the federal level.

I have to be very worried that my lawyer is now the target of a criminal investigation.

Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly without fear or favor.

We learned that at Mar-a-Lago was some of the nation`s most serious sensitive information, what is called Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information that was at Mar-a-Lago. So it ain`t no hoax. It`s there. And there`s no reasonable…

It’s ridiculous, Lawrence, because you don’t get to declassify something just for yourself, you declassify for everything.