JD Vance

The special master requests made by Trump turns out to be a real strategic error, because it presents DOJ with the opportunity to present its side of the case.

I don’t think this is what we need to do right now.

What's clear about this investigation is that Fani Willis's intent on speaking with all of the relevant witnesses.

There's not really a great defense in the offing for that. This is classified material whether Trump has some pseudo I waved a magic wand and declassified argument is largely irrelevant, because reportedly, many of these documents are…

The stakes here are very high.

This is the destruction of our democratic institutions, institutions that we rely upon to keep our communities safe.

We should be clear about where this comes from. This is the logical outgrowth of Trump`s insistence on denigrating federal agents, federal employees while he was president.

We’ve got a crazy fake president.

So we have a situation where Weisselberg either thinks he`s smart enough to lie on the witness stand, is perhaps willing to face a longer time in prison than the five-month deal that he`s caught, or maybe he hopes that he can say he…

Nothing good happens for the former president if parts of this affidavit are released, because what they will establish is the probable cause that DOJ had to search his personal office at Mar-a-Lago.

In the federal system, when folks plead guilty and cooperate, they have to disclose all of the information that they have about anyone, no matter who it is. They don`t get a carve-out.

The whole country’s been waiting to see what Merrick Garland is doing. This week Merrick Garland told us that he has a criminal investigation, and he had the authority from that judge to go in and seize the office at Mar-a-Lago called 45.

Merrick Garland apparently, according to our reporting, wrestled with this decision to raid Mar-a-Lago for weeks. He is not known as a knee jerk, shoot from the hip attorney general kind of dude.

He doesn’t know. He doesn’t know. And there’s uncertainty. And he has to be worried that his former lawyer will cooperate in Georgia.

He should be issued a subpoena and it should be his honor to testify truthfully.

I have to push back a little bit on the characterization of it as a raid, because this is a search warrant that a federal judge authorized based on probable cause.

The whole country has been waiting to see what Merrick Garland is doing. This week, Merrick Garland told us that he has a criminal investigation, and he had the authority from that judge to go in and seize the office at Mar-a-Lago.

During Trump`s tenure, Congress passed a statute that actually stiffen the penalties for mishandling classified material, turning it into a felony, with a mandate -- with a maximum five year sentence.

The FBI is not a creature of a political party. In fact, they hold themselves above the political fray.

Trump is going to be Trump, right? He often has difficulty not making a statement -- now, he can’t do it on Twitter -- when he would be far better served by silence.

Sometimes though, Alicia, executing a search warrant like this is the very last thing you do before you file charges.

I can’t underline how significant and serious this is. Judges aren’t in the habit of making, you know, these decisions flying by the seat of their pants.

The Joe Biden economy has made it hard for families to have hot dogs with hot dog buns. And that is an unacceptable thing. Our American citizens have dreams too. And one of those dreams is that they should be able to have a family cookout…

Money will never compensate these families for their losses. They know that and of course we all know that but I think they can maintain some sense that they have vindicated their children and what they themselves have been through if…

It now appears that, of course, you were right and I was wrong. Give us a very quick comment on the pace of this investigation as you see it now.