In this episode, we talk about the new details in the Mar-A-Lago search warrant and how it relates to the case of 6ix9ine and his alleged involvement in drug trafficking, human smuggling, and conspiracy to commit murder.
00:02:03.940I'm here with my boy, Andrew, from Legal Mindset.
00:02:05.900But, man, so today, guys, we're going to talk about the affidavit that was used, okay, that had the probable cause that allowed the FBI to go ahead and get a search warrant on Mar-a-Lago.
00:02:18.600So real quick, and I got my boy, Andrew, in the house to break this down with me.
00:02:22.540Andrew, can you introduce yourself to the people?
00:02:23.940And I'll give you a little bit of background about myself as well.
00:02:33.360I've worked many times in having freedom of information requests and getting documents that are sensitive, potentially very sensitive documents, released to the public.
00:02:41.620I've worked with people who are both in private industry and the public in releasing sensitive documents.
00:02:47.120So this is something that I've seen in a different context, but certainly something I'm definitely interested in to see today and work through all these redactions and things that are held away from the public.
00:02:58.420Because the presumption is, and I've seen thousands of documents, but the presumption is to disclose.
00:03:04.880So when there's something that is held back from the public, there has to be a damn good reason.
00:03:09.280So like I said, practicing attorney, still practicing law, even though I work remotely.
00:03:23.040And there's no one else I'd rather have by my side to break this down.
00:03:25.820I want to let you guys know right here, right now, you are not going to get a more thorough background on this affidavit on the Internet, period, okay?
00:03:33.920I've seen a bunch of people break this down.
00:03:35.540No one has actually went line by line with the affidavit, reading it with you guys and explaining how things really work.
00:03:40.680As you guys know, quick little background on me.
00:03:43.080Former Special Agent of Homeland Security Investigations, HSI.
00:03:47.460I specialize in doing criminal investigations in pretty much every type of crime you could think of, from drug trafficking to human smuggling to human trafficking to firearms trafficking.
00:03:58.800I did Mexico cartel investigations, organized crime.
00:04:02.040I did money laundering, financial investigations, everything you could think of, man.
00:04:06.120I've even done some child exploitation as well.
00:04:32.100And when something is redacted, guys, pretty much it means the government has put a black marker on it so you don't know what they're talking about.
00:04:38.360They typically do this to conceal whether it's confidential informants, investigative methods, targets of investigation, or just trying to not disclose too much that will give the investigation away to the people that are actually being investigated.
00:04:51.960I will be honest with you where rarely do you see search warrants get sealed like this and then stay sealed for this period of time.
00:04:59.560Normally, after the search warrant is executed, you know, that search warrant is unsealed.
00:05:03.360You know, the crook, if he wanted to, can go and paste her and find it himself.
00:05:07.940But obviously, with a case like this, it's going to be fairly difficult.
00:05:12.340It's going to be fairly difficult to hold it back, right, for a long period of time because everyone and their mom is requesting this thing.
00:05:17.780And just so you guys kind of get an idea of what I'm talking about here, I'll give you guys real quick.
00:05:22.240I'll show you the pacer screen for this search warrant, and I'll enlarge it real fast so you guys kind of know what's going on here.
00:05:27.600As you guys can see, this is just a search warrant, right?
00:05:30.400It has an MJ case number, right, right here, 922 MJ, and, you know, and it has the initials of the magistrate judge that signed off on it and the number.
00:05:40.000And if you guys look, look at all these people that are interested here, Intervenor, New York Times Company, okay, CBS Broadcasting.
00:05:47.160This is unprecedented, guys, to see this many people on a docket.
00:06:26.020It's an enormous amount of pressure on them to get this stuff unsealed so everyone can see what the hell is going on with the search warrant.
00:06:32.280Because, to be honest with you guys, it's unprecedented to have a former president of the United States have a search warrant conducted in his house, a federal search warrant by the FBI.
00:06:41.540So should we talk about – should I pull up a Fox News article here, I guess, to kind of give the people an idea of what's going on?
00:06:52.020So I'll go ahead and play this thing for y'all real quick.
00:06:55.660And this all started, guys, back in early August, around August 8th, with the FBI doing a search on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence right here in West Palm Beach, Florida, West Palm Beach County – or Palm Beach County.
00:07:11.000I'm going to play a clip from this Fox News.
00:07:13.700Basically, this is how Trump could be prosecuted, Andy McCarthy.
00:07:15.760And this is, you know, days after the search warrant was unveiled.
00:07:18.800So let's go ahead and play a portion of this thing, and then we'll get right into breaking down the search warrant, and we'll get into it.
00:07:29.420The former deputy assistant attorney general, UC Berkeley law professor, clerk for Justice Thomas, I might point out, Andy McCarthy with us as well.
00:08:43.760I just I think that President Trump is getting poor advice because it seems to me looking at this that the Justice Department does not intend to prosecute him, at least on a classified information or records retention violation.
00:09:13.960And that's why you never have this issue of, you know, releasing an affidavit in the middle of while the FBI is trying to gather evidence.
00:09:21.900The only way it makes sense to me that they're fighting so hard to avoid disclosing the information because information in these kinds of affidavits typically gets disclosed eventually in a criminal case.
00:09:32.620The only reason it makes sense to fight over it is if you hope that you'll never have to disclose it, which argues toward not prosecuting him.
00:09:43.260What he's referring to, guys, is the process of discovery.
00:09:45.680So once you're arrested, right, and charges are filed against you, whether it's state or federal, it doesn't matter, the state or the government, whoever – well, it's the government, whether it's state or not – has a duty to disclose all of the evidence that's being used against you in court, guys, in the process of discovery.
00:10:23.380And I think one of the arguments is that after the indictment is dropped, they're going to unseal some of the remainder or some of the balance of this information.
00:10:30.220You know, that's one of the arguments the government makes in their notice of filing of the redacted memorandum is that when the indictment actually drops – because we don't have an indictment yet, right?
00:10:40.980We're at a stage where there's been a search, but there has not been an indictment.
00:10:45.640So the argument is, OK, let us get to the next step, and then we'll unseal more.
00:10:50.140Now, they haven't – I don't think it's clear whether they're going to unseal all, right?
00:10:54.420But at least more than they have right now.
00:10:56.600Yeah, and can you break down for the people real quick what an indictment is because I don't think enough people understand how important that is and what it is.
00:11:14.160And the standard for that is probable cause.
00:11:16.680It's just, hey, is there a reason to go in?
00:11:18.740Is there a reason to look at this person's premises?
00:11:20.720Is there a reason to search this person's home in order to gather information?
00:11:24.000And, well, we're going to see in this affidavit what they had for probable cause.
00:11:28.960And, well, what we can't see because it's redacted, but we're going to go through that.
00:11:32.920But when you go to an indictment that's actually levying charges against the individual, they are not officially charged with a crime until they levy an indictment against an individual.
00:11:41.920In this case, probably in front of a grand jury.
00:11:45.120There's multiple methods at the federal level, but probably in front of a federal grand jury, which will bring the official charges against, in this case, Donald Trump.
00:11:55.380And then that would have to go to a trial after that.
00:11:58.200But the indictment is just the first step in bringing the charges in the criminal process.
00:12:03.920You know, if he wants to keep berating the Justice Department and the FBI, he could talk himself into being charged because they could go to Garland and say, you know, look, he's castigating us.
00:12:18.000And the only way that we can get our reputations back and, you know, show the public what really happened here is to have a public trial.
00:12:25.580Whereas I don't really think that's where this is headed.
00:12:33.080I mean, just because it's not in this affidavit, which was the justification, the rationale for going ahead and searching the president's Florida home.
00:12:42.820Uh, it, it, it could be indirectly in among the justifications for it, but more importantly, they have these documents now, right?
00:12:52.320They have all of them are presumably the ones that they wanted to get, uh, and it could still come up, couldn't it?
00:13:16.160That's why I don't think there's any real block other than declassifying, making the affidavit actually more fully public.
00:13:23.080Why not declassify the documents they actually took from President Trump and show the public what they were?
00:13:28.660If the government really feels that this was a national security threat for President Trump to have these documents, then let's see them in a sanitized form.
00:13:37.060And, oh, that's never, what's your thoughts on that?
00:13:39.980I mean, they're going to, that did, that would literally destroy the government's case because the whole, the whole case of the government is these are super secret documents, right?
00:13:49.640So, so let's, let's sanitize these super secret documents and release them.
00:13:54.420Well, no, as soon as you release even a sentence of them, they become less serious.
00:13:58.940Like when they're this mysterious document you cannot see, right, then it's something super important.
00:14:03.980But if they actually looked at the documents and actually what was stamped top secret, and let's be real, Myron, sometimes stuff is labeled at a security clearance when really, honestly, it doesn't need to be, right?
00:14:16.940We're going to slap a security clearance on this, even though it's maybe just a memorandum, or maybe it's just something between a foreign leader and a U.S. leader, right?
00:14:25.720And they're like, we're going to label this top secret, right?
00:14:28.240Even though if you looked at it, it looks mundane as hell, but maybe it has some details about, I don't know, where they live or what they're doing, something that might give away, you know, sources and methods.
00:14:38.520We can talk about the broadness of that, right, Myron?
00:14:42.800So any, it's very easy for things to be qualified as top secret.
00:14:46.300It doesn't need to be like was joked about the nuclear codes.
00:14:49.560And I think we spoke about that last time, but the nuclear codes was actually based on a joke.
00:14:53.560That whole thing about the new codes, that was based on somebody taking Trump's fundraising logo from his email and editing it to look like a Powerball, like the nuclear codes are 15, 21, 86, 42, right?
00:15:07.640I mean, that was complete bullshit, completely fake, right?
00:15:10.980And that's the thing that they wanted to, that I think Trump in his own tweet was trying to debunk.
00:15:15.320He was more concerned, I think, about the public perception here, because as usual, the public has a lot of bad ideas about what was in these, what was in the affidavit and what they were looking for in the first place.
00:15:28.460Now, we're not going to get that specifically in this affidavit, but it certainly wasn't nuclear codes.
00:15:33.960And not only that, people need to understand that, like, you know, things can be classified as secret, top secret for anything, man.
00:15:39.920A big reason why, guys, is sometimes simply how the information was gathered will make it classified.
00:15:44.720You know, it could have been the information isn't even classified in itself.
00:15:48.120Like, let's say it's like public information to some degree or law enforcement sensitive, but it's procured in a way that was sensitive.
00:15:54.380They're going to classify it as something that's classified secret or top secret, maybe even SCI.
00:16:00.140A lot of the time, things are classified simply based on how they're procured versus what is actually within what the contents are of that document.
00:16:08.940So that's also something people need to understand as well.
00:16:11.120Sometimes you look at it like, what the fuck?
00:16:30.720If they really aren't that dangerous, then maybe President Trump really has a good point.
00:16:36.160But the other thing, Neil, is I agree with Andy.
00:16:38.480I have a hard time believing that this Justice Department is going to try to prosecute President Trump now that we've learned more details about how these documents were kept,
00:16:46.460that President Trump was just tossing them into boxes along with photos and clippings.
00:16:50.960I mean, it sounds like a 95-year-old guy just throwing papers in a box.
00:17:00.840If the whole purpose of this raid, whatever you want to call it, was to get back very valuable, classified, even though the president himself said as president he could declassify them,
00:17:14.560but to get all of this stuff back, National Archives and all these guys, we're looking for these, demanding these, wondering what happened to these.
00:17:21.920We're separately told that the White House Counsel's Office, you know, was involved in this to a degree, even though now we're hearing from the White House.
00:17:36.140But, I mean, to be honest with you, and we already know this from looking at the affidavit, it was the Washington Field Office of the FBI that did this.
00:17:42.540No one knew what the hell was going on, you know.
00:17:44.900It was a small section of FBI agents that knew what was going on here.
00:21:09.540Now, with that said, objectively speaking, for the purposes of this podcast and the information that we're going to share with you guys, I'm telling you guys that out of transparency.
00:21:17.540However, my thing is, Trump supporter or not, everyone needs to get the same goddamn treatment when it comes to being investigated by the FBI for public corruption issues or whatever it may be.
00:21:28.460Hillary Clinton did not get this level of scrutiny with, you know, handling classified information.
00:21:34.660And you could argue hers were even worse because people died in Benghazi as, you know, a link to that.
00:22:04.480That are supposed to be even to define that justice is blind and it's even.
00:22:09.220You got to, you got to investigate everybody the same way, baby.
00:22:11.480That's the way I look at it, you know, regardless of what I like or what I don't like, if you're going to give that energy for Trump, it needs to go for everybody else as well.
00:22:20.040Regardless of, you know, political party.
00:23:24.820It was not, hey, there's one box they took pretty much from what it seems like anything that was relating to it.
00:23:32.800So that search warrant was granted because according to the search warrant and the judge's decision, there was probable cause that there might be documents that they sought inside of Trump's home.
00:23:46.960And so, guys, this document right here that I'm about to show you guys, okay, is a, as you guys can see, it's a notice of filing of redacted memorandum.
00:23:55.360So basically what this is, is the government basically saying, hey, okay, we're going to, you know, release parts of this search warrant redacted, of course.
00:24:03.920And the interesting part here, guys, is that there was United States sealed ex parte memorandum of law regarding proposed redactions.
00:24:10.180And guys, ex parte pretty much means it's done with the judge alone.
00:24:14.360The government basically meets with the government.
00:24:16.420There's, you know, another council is not there.
00:25:16.380So in order to get a search warrant, guys, you have to go ahead and write something called an affidavit.
00:25:20.800An affidavit basically is an outline of the evidence and facts and circumstances in your case that lets you coming to the conclusion of, yo, I need to search this house, phone, structure, whatever it is.
00:25:37.820It's the probable cause that outlines why you need to search this stuff.
00:25:41.140We know thanks to the Fourth Amendment, you need to be able to reach the threshold of probable cause to be able to search a person's person, places, or things.
00:25:49.780And they say this in the Fourth Amendment, you know, a human being in the United States basically has a right to privacy and no search shall be done unless, you know, probable cause established and a warrant is issued.
00:26:01.580And that warrant can be issued by a magistrate judge.
00:26:04.380So in this case, it was a magistrate judge out of the Southern District of Florida, West Palm Beach Division, that went ahead and granted the FBI a search warrant.
00:26:11.720So we're going to go ahead and go through this affidavit right now.
00:26:20.760Notice of filing redacted search warrant.
00:26:22.400Affidavit and redacted ex parte memorandum of law concerning proposed redactions, which we kind of went over that before, which is kind of what I want to show you guys.
00:26:29.140Now we're going to get into affidavit.
00:26:30.520And we're going to break this thing down line by line.
00:26:33.180Before I get into this, guys, I need you guys to, number one, like the video.
00:26:37.020Number two, subscribe to my guy, Andrew's YouTube channel, Legal Mindset.
00:28:28.140But they can't limit the number of people just because they don't have a good reason.
00:28:32.800So that is a huge expansion of your self-defense rights.
00:28:36.760However, I will say, if you live in a state like New York, functionally, your self-defense rights are far, far, far less than a state, let's say, like Texas or Florida.
00:30:09.280Well, that's why you got to subscribe to good channels.
00:30:11.340That's why you got to listen in because, you know, you're going to get the facts, but you're not going to get it from your Fox News, your CNN, or your MSNBC.
00:30:48.800Bro, they're really crossing their T's and down to the I's.
00:30:50.820They're literally writing out Rule 41, which for you guys that are wondering under the criminal code for the federally, Rule 41, you know, is the whole part where we're talking about search warrants, seizure warrants, et cetera.
00:31:03.220So they're going really hard here with how this affidavit is being written.
00:31:07.080I am willing to bet more than likely an AUSA wrote this and not an agent.
00:31:11.060Anytime you need a very, very thorough search warrant, the AUSA is a lot of times write their search warrants.
00:31:15.740Come on, that's just one, not just one, Myron.
00:31:18.800There's probably like 10 AUSAs on this, man.
00:32:11.000They make some changes, then they say, okay, it's good.
00:32:13.180They go to the judge, and then you sign it.
00:32:14.660But in this case, I'm more than, well, I bet my left testicle, it was the AUSA that wrote this, and probably 10 AUSA, just like Andrew said.
00:32:21.780So it goes, I, and then as you guys can see, this big black thing.
00:32:26.900I, let's say Agent Tom, being first duly sworn, hereby deposed, and state as follows.
00:32:32.620So now he's saying this under oath, guys, okay?
00:32:34.400The government is conducting a criminal investigation concerning the improper removal and storage of classified information on the authorized basis, as well as unlawful concealment or removal of government records.
00:32:45.280The investigation began as a referral from the United States National Archives and Records Administration, NARA, sent to the United States Department of Justice, DOJ, on February 9, 2022.
00:33:12.200So obviously this started after Trump was in office, and clearly it was because of something that was brought up over that last year or so.
00:33:32.780So for the rest of the affidavit, we're going to look at it as a NARA referral, okay?
00:33:37.140The NARA referral stated that on January 18, 2022, in accordance with the Presidential Records Act, PRA, NARA received from the office of the former president, Donald J. Trump, here and after, F-P-O-T-U-S, okay, F-POTUS, okay, former president of the United States, via representatives, 15 boxes of records, here and after, the 15 boxes,
00:33:55.060which had been transported from the 15 boxes, which had been transported from the FOTUS property, at 1100 South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Florida.
00:34:03.140Guys, that's Mar-a-Lago right there, okay?
00:34:05.080Here and after referred to as the premises, okay?
00:34:07.660A residence and club known as Mar-a-Lago further described in Attachment A were reported by NARA to contain, among other things, highly classified documents intermingled with other records.
00:34:16.940You guys are probably wondering, what the fuck is Attachment A?
00:34:19.020Guys, Attachment A is what is to be searched.
00:34:22.040Attachment B is the items that they're looking for, okay?
00:34:26.880Anytime you write a search warrant, you got an affidavit, then you got Attachment A, B, and C, okay?
00:34:31.000Typically, the affidavit is Attachment C.
00:34:33.040Attachment A is what's to be searched, and then Attachment B is what is to be searched, or what's to be taken, excuse me, and seized.
00:34:39.780After initial review of the NARA referral, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, opened a criminal investigation to, among other things,
00:34:45.680determine how the documents with classification markings and records were removed from the White House
00:34:49.780or any other authorized locations for the storage of classified materials and came to be stored at the premises.
00:34:55.500Determine whether the storage locations at the premises were authorized locations for the storage of classified information.
00:35:00.580Determine whether any additional classified documents or records have been stored in an authorized location at the premises or another unknown location.
00:35:10.820So understand that when they say authorized location, like a lot of the language they use, they're using it in a very specific way because it means something.
00:35:20.800So when they say authorized location, that likely means something under the Records Retention Act and the Records Storage Act.
00:35:26.780It's probably something that the administration has to say, hey, this is an authorized location for the storage of documents, right?
00:35:33.760And I guarantee you, I guarantee you that the agency, the administration itself, did not designate Mar-a-Lago as an authorized location for the storage of documents.
00:35:44.280Or if it was at one point, it might have been removed.
00:35:47.600We actually don't know some of the details here.
00:35:50.820But it's something that they're using specifically.
00:35:53.540That language is specific because it's in the statute.
00:38:58.500And then they also have, you know, joint terrorism task force or, you know, or counterterrorism, OK?
00:39:03.500And I've explained on many podcasts before what the joint terrorism task force is.
00:39:07.340It's basically a task force with a bunch of different agencies working together to combat terrorism.
00:39:12.800Because after 9-11, basically, the FBI and the intelligence agencies figured out that they fucked up because they didn't work together, share information.
00:39:18.780And that's how those hijackers were able to get on those planes and go into the towers, etc.
00:39:23.080So, the FBI has several different squads that investigate different types of crime.
00:39:27.520So, the Washington field office being a big office, right, a special agent and charge office to be exact, probably going to have hundreds of agents in that office.
00:39:35.280The bigger the office, the more they can, how do I say this, compartmentalize in specific squads, OK?
00:39:41.120But the groups I just mentioned, you know, are pretty much the main types of squads that the FBI has at their big field offices.
00:39:49.780Now, if you're at a rack office, right, which is, like, smaller, you know, 10, 15, 20, 30 agents, then in that case, they might break it up into only two or three squads.
00:39:57.400Or if it's just a small rack office with, like, 10 agents, then everybody does everything.
00:40:00.800Everyone's doing different types of cases.
00:40:03.220You might also have a counterintelligence case.
00:40:04.900You might also have, you know, a bank robbery, you know, violent crimes or a gang case.
00:40:09.340But in the bigger field offices, they're able to specialize more.
00:40:12.920So, I'm not surprised that the Washington field office has a squad that does just counterintelligence and espionage.
00:40:18.940And this agent was assigned this from the squad because they probably opened up the case under a certain case file number, which correlates with espionage and counterintelligence.
00:40:30.160That's how the FBI is organized, guys.
00:40:32.960So, and then here, right, this part right here that's redacted, I'm willing to bet this part right here says something about that agent that would probably be able to identify them.
00:40:42.540Hey, I've done this many types of investigations.
00:40:45.320I'm responsible for these many search warrants, blah, blah, blah.
00:40:48.680So, this redaction right here more than likely is something related to that agent's skill set that could potentially identify them, which is why they redacted it.
00:40:58.440Just as they redacted the agent's name.
00:41:00.260And I want to make this extremely clear for you guys.
00:41:02.160It is not common to redact the agent's name on an affidavit.
00:41:07.660So, based on my training experience, I'm familiar with efforts used to unlawfully collect, retain, and disseminate sensitive government information, including classified national defense information.
00:41:17.580I make this affidavit in support of an application under Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure for a warrant to search the premises known as 1100 South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, Florida.
00:41:26.560The premises is for describing attachment A for the things described in attachment B.
00:41:30.600Again, guys, remember, attachment A is going to be a picture of the location that's going to be searched.
00:41:42.660And then attachment C is the affidavit, which is this right here, what we're going through.
00:41:46.000Based upon the following facts, there is probable cause to believe that the locations to be searched at the premises contain evidence, contraband, fruits of a crime, or other items illegally possessed in violation of 18 U.S.C. 793E, 1519, or 2071.
00:42:50.960The facts set forth in this affidavit are based on my personal knowledge, personal knowledge, knowledge obtained during my participation in this investigation, and information obtained from other FBI and U.S. government personnel.
00:43:03.000They don't want to say who else they're working with.
00:43:05.640Normally, you would give credit to other agencies you're working with, but the fact that they're only putting U.S. government personnel tells me that they have probably more than likely some agencies involved that they don't want to disclose that might or may not, may or may not be involved in the intel world.
00:43:23.320Because this affidavit is submitted for the limited purpose of establishing probable cause in support of the application of a search warrant, it does not set forth each and every fact that I or others have learned during the course of this investigation.
00:43:36.460What the hell does that mean in English?
00:43:38.300That means that we know a lot more than we're putting in this affidavit.
00:43:41.560We're only putting them bare minimum required so that we can get this goddamn warrant.
00:43:45.000But there's way more that we know, and we're not putting it all in this affidavit.
00:44:36.420And there's, you know, going through that.
00:44:38.220Although there's some debate and this is something that will come up, you know, as we go towards the indictment and definitely at the trial level of, you know, there were executive orders that allow the declassifying and unclassifying of information verbally.
00:44:51.440And that's one of the positions of Trump is that he verbally declassified documents, that he said, I'm declassifying these documents verbally, and that's something they could do in the past.
00:45:10.840So they're saying they have a reason to believe that some of these documents might still be classified, might still be protected information.
00:45:20.840So that's why all of this information is near about what's classified and what's not classified.
00:45:25.520And to make life easy for you guys, there's three main ones that you need to know, top secret, secret, and confidential.
00:45:30.020And then there's also something called top secret SEI or secret compartmentalized information.
00:45:34.780Think of that as a little bit higher than TS, okay?
00:45:39.980Me and myself, when I was an agent, I carried a top secret clearance.
00:45:42.360Guys, that's pretty much any special agent is going to get that clearance.
00:45:45.840Whether you work for DEA, FBI, that's like a basic TS clearance is what you're going to get if you do anything at the federal level where you're, you know, doing any type of law enforcement function a lot of the time, at least at the agent level, okay?
00:46:01.120So that's the basic things that you need to know here.
00:46:03.300Okay, so they talk about here, like, the gravity of each level, right?
00:46:09.660So they basically say, where such unauthorized disclosure could reasonably result in the damage to national security, the information may be classified as confidential and must be properly safeguarded.
00:46:18.580Where such unauthorized disclosure could reasonably result in serious damage to national security, the information may be classified as secret and must be properly safeguarded.
00:46:26.680So that's a nice little summary right there, guys, as to the damage that can be incurred if, you know, each level of, I guess, classification is breached with a disclosure of some type of sensitive document.
00:46:47.120Okay, and then here they, okay, see, they make a little thing here where SCI means classified information concerning or derived from intelligence sources, methods, or analytical processes, which is required to be handled with formal access control systems.
00:46:58.500So a special intelligence, or SI, is an SCI control system designed to protect technical and intelligence information derived from the monitoring of foreign communications signals by other than the intended recipients.
00:47:10.320The SI control system protects SI-derived information and information relating to SI activities, capabilities, techniques, processes, and procedures, okay?
00:47:17.700So you got SCI, now they're going a little bit further, and they're giving you other details.
00:47:21.880And the reason why I'm reading through this, guys, is because these acronyms are going to come back up as we go through this search warrant, okay?
00:47:29.040So a special intelligence, or SCI control system, right?
00:47:31.260Now you got H-U-M-I-N-T control system, or HCS, is an SCI control system designed to protect intelligent information derived from clandestine human sources, commonly referred to as human intelligence.
00:47:43.160The H-U-M-I-N-T control system protects human intelligence derived from information and information relating to human intelligence activities, capabilities, techniques, processes, and procedures.
00:48:38.120I've went over this in detail, which you guys, excruciating detail, especially on the Robert Hansen case, but it is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.
00:48:46.900It's a dissemination control designed to protect intelligence information derived from the collection of information authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or FISC.
00:48:59.600Guys, basically, if you have some information as an agent, right, and this is typically what FBI agents, because they do counterespionage and counterintelligence.
00:49:06.880If you, let's say the FBI gets wind of a Chinese national that's in the United States that they think is here that's a spy.
00:49:13.660Well, they're not going to go to the regular courts and go ahead and get a wiretap.
00:49:22.920Well, because, number one, they're a foreign national.
00:49:24.660Not only are they a foreign national, they're a foreign national operating under the auspice of a foreign government to, you know, to overthrow and or dethrone or gain intelligence on the U.S. intelligence community.
00:49:35.640So they're going to go ahead and use other means to collect on that individual.
00:49:56.900And then also under, you know, the Patriot Act, that also gave, obviously, the U.S. government quite a bit of control as far as, like, being able to, you know, intercept communication and monitoring.
00:50:07.500I mean, hell, this is why the NSA got in trouble with Snowden, right?
00:50:12.100He gave information on, I think it was Operation Whirlwind or something like that, where they were collecting on U.S. citizens, which is a big fucking, now should be collecting national security, excuse me, intelligence agencies should not be collecting on U.S. citizens.
00:50:28.500That was a big, big, big loss of our individual rights.
00:50:32.120And frankly, I think a lot of people who want to look back to when this shit started, you got to go all the way back to the Patriot Act and you got to go all the way back to that era.
00:50:41.080Like, do not forget that that shit is a lot of the root cause of this.
00:50:44.540And also, don't forget, you know, people with the left-right shit, don't forget that that came in under W, right?
00:50:49.880So all you guys that are like, yo, it's all the Dems.
00:50:52.360It's like, yo, W did a lot of this stuff too, right?
00:50:54.920So, like, you got to go back then, you got to look at that, and you got to give blame where blame's due.
00:51:46.300Okay, so classified information may be marked as not releasable to foreign nationals, governments, slash U.S. citizens, abbreviated as no foreign.
00:51:56.420Not to be confused with no porn, guys.
00:51:58.620To indicate information that may not be released to any form to foreign governments, foreign national, foreign organizations, or non-U.S. citizens without permission to the originator.
00:52:06.860Okay, you guys are probably wondering, well, why the hell would they give it out to foreigners, and why do we even have to say that?
00:52:11.480The reason why, guys, is a lot of these intelligence agencies work abroad, namely the CIA, okay?
00:52:17.640When you work for the CIA, or if you're a CIA agent, whatever it may be, you're an intel analyst, whatever, you work with foreign nationals most of the time.
00:52:25.660The CIA, guys, collects information on foreign nationals.
00:52:48.560So with that said, they're saying this because some of these documents might be coming from intel agencies that work with foreign nationals a lot, so they can't share it, all right?
00:52:57.720And then classified information may be marked as originator-controlled, abbreviated ORCON.
00:53:01.920This marking indicates that dissemination beyond pre-approved U.S. entities requires originator approval.
00:53:08.220So that means, let's say, CIA gives some documentation to NSA.
00:53:14.700NSA wants to share this information with someone else.
00:53:17.140NSA has to go ahead and get that approval from the CIA to share that information.
00:53:22.440So they cannot share it unless they get the originator's approval to share said information.
00:53:27.220And guys, this happens a lot in the government, even in law enforcement, man.
00:53:30.720If you want to go ahead and get some information from another agency, a lot of the times you have to fill outside agency paperwork to get that documentation.
00:53:38.300This happened a lot of the times whenever I worked with, like, state and locals, et cetera, and they wanted to get Department of Homeland Security records, whether it was immigration records, travel records, et cetera.
00:53:46.780They had to write me a formal email, you know, hey, I was looking for these kinds of documents.
00:53:51.420I go ahead and I, you know, I save that email.
00:53:57.940And then I go ahead and give it to them.
00:53:59.540But they need to fill out paperwork to be able to do that.
00:54:01.760So that happens a lot with the government, guys, especially when you have information that isn't coming from your original agency and someone else wants it.
00:54:09.180You have to a lot of the time fill out some kind of paperwork that allows you to do that.
00:54:12.580It's very bureaucratic, but that's how the government operates, man.
00:54:14.720It's compartmentalized like that on purpose.
00:54:16.720So the agencies kind of how do I say this?
00:54:20.680It's compartmentalized to promote competitiveness.
00:54:23.480That's the best way that I can put it.
00:54:42.480But the point is, is that that defense is not going to come up till we get that indictment until we go to a trial, right?
00:54:47.900So regardless of whether that is a defense, because I think if that's true, right, like if he did declassify these documents, then – and that's shown pretty clearly.
00:56:43.960It's another form of obstruction of justice.
00:56:46.680It's actually a little bit more broad.
00:56:49.600And then you got 18 U.S.C. 2071, which is the mutilation of records themselves, if I'm not mistaken.
00:56:55.600Yeah, with 1519, real quick, see how broad that is when it says if you do anything to hold those documents to influence the investigation or proper administration of any agency.
00:57:08.360So literally, they can say, okay, you mess with the records retention of the National Records Agency, right?
00:57:17.320So you mess with our fucking Dewey Decimal System, right?
00:57:20.920Because you did that, this is super broad, these statutes.
00:57:26.760We talked about it last time, but we've got to say it again.
00:57:31.520And this is why – this is how they got probable cause.
00:57:34.840This is how they got probable cause by picking a super broad law and saying, yeah, on this very broad law, there is a chance based on the information provided that Trump has those documents.
00:58:29.120So real quick, the term Presidential Records means documentary materials or any reasonably segregatable portion thereof created or received by the president, the president's media staff, or a unit or individual of the executive office of the president whose function is to advise or assist the president in the course of conducting activities which relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional statutory or other official or ceremonial duties of the president.
00:58:53.140And then they kind of go into it as far as like a little bit more details, right?
00:58:57.520But basically, now we know what they mean by that, right?
00:59:13.600There's over 1,000 of you guys watching, but we only got 583 likes.
00:59:16.380We should be at 1,000 easy because, again, guys, number one, the gravity of what the hell is going on here, crazy.
00:59:23.700A president's former residence, a former president's residence was searched by the FBI.
00:59:28.200Number two, you have a former federal agent and a lawyer breaking down a search warrant affidavit for you guys that no one else has done on the Internet.
01:01:02.960The NARA referral stated that according to NARA's White House Liaison Division Director,
01:01:06.860a preliminary review of the 15 boxes indicated that they contain newspapers, magazines, printed news articles, photos, miscellaneous printouts, notes, presidential correspondence,
01:01:15.740personal and post-presidential records, and a lot of classified records.
01:01:19.700Of most significant concern was the highly classified records were unfolded, intermixed with other records, and otherwise improperly identified.
01:01:52.400Whether that's true or not, mind you, this is the government's document, right?
01:01:55.960So this is the picture the government wants to paint here.
01:01:59.520This is the picture the government wants to paint.
01:02:01.300We're not saying whether this is true.
01:02:02.600In fact, the government can paint a picture that can be entirely untrue or can misrepresent or can be an exaggeration of what the reality is, right?
01:02:11.100But this is the government's affidavit, something that was filed by, once again, the FBI and the prosecutor.
01:02:21.860On February 18, 2022, the Archivist of the United States Chief Administrator – hold on, let me enlarge this for y'all so you can see the full document.
01:02:30.280On February 18, 2022, the Archivist of the United States Chief Administrator for NARA stated in a letter to Congress's Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairwoman, the Honorable Carolyn B. Maloney,
01:02:41.420NARA had ongoing communications with representatives of the former President Trump throughout 2021, which resulted in the transfer of 15 boxes to NARA in January 2022.
01:02:51.080NARA has identified items marked as classified national security information within the boxes.
01:02:55.500The letter also stated, because NARA identified classified information in the boxes, NARA staff has been in communication with the Department of Justice.
01:03:02.180The letter was made publicly available to the following uniform resource locator.
01:03:07.760I didn't even know that's what URL stood for.
01:03:24.620On February 18, 2022, the same day, the Save America Political Action Committee, PAC, posted the following statement on behalf of the former president.
01:03:31.820The National Archives did not find anything.
01:03:35.140They were given upon request, presidential records, in an ordinary and routine process to ensure the preservation of my legacy.
01:03:41.220And in accordance with the Presidential Records Act, an image of the statement is below.
01:03:45.120So see how they're trying to lock Trump into a statement here?
01:03:52.700I don't know if they're doing that on purpose here.
01:03:54.500But basically, it's summarizing what he said, which is the National Archives did not find anything.
01:03:59.900They were given upon request, presidential records, in an ordinary and routine process to ensure the preservation of my legacy in accordance with the Presidential Records Act.
01:04:45.520This is going to be specifically relating to those documents, to what they speculate those documents are, the confidential information as part of those documents, and of course, how they would know that those are potentially confidential documents.
01:05:01.140Which I think you can agree might fall under sources and methods as to the way those documents were created or retained and what might actually be in there.
01:05:12.320I think more than likely this right here, guys, what you're seeing, all these redactions.
01:05:16.840This is probably details of what those documents more than likely are, the classification levels, and the issues that could arise if they were discovered.
01:05:26.680Because remember, guys, these guys had looked in the boxes and seen what was in there to a degree.
01:05:32.320So they're fairly familiar with what was more than likely in there.
01:05:35.900So this right here probably has to do with the nature of the documents, and then also probably has some kind of sensitive information potentially on how they found out that they ended up at Mar-a-Lago.
01:05:45.780Because as you guys can see here, boxes containing documents were transported to the White House, from the White House to Mar-a-Lago.
01:05:51.340So more than likely, this also has some kind of sensitive info as to how the FBI knew that they went to Mar-a-Lago in the first place.
01:06:09.240When you look at the headers, right, and then you see how the headers are progressing.
01:06:13.260So, you know, the first header, if we kind of go back up, right?
01:06:17.540So if you go back up, the first header is the NRA referral.
01:06:20.880So you know that everything within that paragraph relates to the NRA, relates to how the NRA knew about those documents, you know, relates to how the NRA knew those were classified.
01:06:30.540Then it deals with the transportation from the White House to Mar-a-Lago.
01:06:34.480So you know, okay, that's related to that paragraph.
01:06:36.400And then you go over provision of the boxes to the NRA.
01:07:02.380And it goes from, you know, from oldest to most recent.
01:07:06.380And then as you continue on in the affidavit, it becomes more and more recent.
01:07:09.680But you always go from A to B to C to D to how you got your evidence.
01:07:14.300So, you know, I would say an educated guess between the two of us, in our professional opinion, is that more than likely, these redactions have to do with the nature of the documents, what type of documents they were, classification of said documents, and how NRA knew about the documents.
01:07:29.200And then most importantly, how they knew that they were going to be transported to Mar-a-Lago.
01:07:33.920Because as you guys can see here next, what do we go into?
01:07:36.960We go into boxes containing documents were transported from the White House to Mar-a-Lago.
01:07:40.880These portions of the affidavit right here, more than likely, could even potentially have a source at the NRA who gave the FBI this information in particular.
01:07:49.300Because more than likely, they would need an eyewitness, right, to be able to tell them, I saw document A, I saw document B, I saw document C, et cetera, et cetera.
01:07:58.460So they don't want these witnesses from NRA to be identified, okay?
01:08:02.380And that was one of the reasons that was stated by the court for only the partial unsealing of these documents was they did not want to mess with their witnesses.
01:08:11.500And they said, hey, if we at this point unseal this, the witnesses are not going to have confidence to actually testify at the trial or at the indictment, right?
01:08:19.740They're going to say, hey, we don't trust the government, and there's going to be a lot of angry people writing these guys if they figure out who they are.
01:08:27.020And I guarantee you, by the way, some of these people, some of these people that are their sources and their informants probably identify or say the Republicans.
01:09:11.940So NRA, so National Archives and Records Administration.
01:09:15.800Yeah, guys, not to be confused with NRA and weapons.
01:09:18.440No, that's not what we're talking about.
01:09:20.120Boxes, because I see some people in chat are getting confused.
01:09:22.300They might have tuned in a little bit later.
01:09:23.720We, you know, defined all these acronyms earlier, guys, but that's what it stands for, okay?
01:09:29.060Okay, so boxes contain documents were transported from the White House to Mar-a-Lago.
01:09:32.600According to a CBS Miami article titled, Moving Trucks Spotted at Mar-a-Lago, published Monday, January 18, 2021, and at least two moving trucks were observed at the premises on January 18, 2021.
01:09:54.320Let me try to see if I can search it here.
01:09:57.060Andrew, can you – hold on, let me – okay.
01:09:59.640Because the point is – and one thing you're going to notice, too, as you go down through this document, there's actually – on the next page, I believe – yeah, the next page.
01:10:08.800I just scrolled on one little page there.
01:10:13.060So you're going to see a couple – when you see a large black box here, that's going to be an image.
01:10:17.780You're going to see a couple of these throughout the entire thing.
01:10:20.620So clearly, they had some sort of photo potentially of the document or of the document – maybe of the documents being transported, right?
01:10:30.780Because this section particularly is about moving them from the White House to Mar-a-Lago.
01:10:34.640So they might have a fucking picture of the actual box is being moved there.
01:11:04.640From which they pulled it, where they were able to go ahead and say, oh, yeah, moving trucks were spotted Monday at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach.
01:11:13.280At least two trucks with boxes of items were spotted by news helicopters being wheeled inside this state.
01:11:17.240So why did the FBI put this in their affidavit and not redact this?
01:11:20.300Because it's public information, guys.
01:11:57.700But once again, if it's how NERA stores documents, if there's their procedures, if it's how they deal with top secret documents, how NERA deals with top secret documents, they're not going to talk about that.
01:12:08.540And that's something they're going to want to, you know, keep under wraps.
01:12:42.500And then here, as you guys can see, this is NERA probably witnesses giving information as to what they saw in the boxes, the types of classification of the documents, the nature of the documents, et cetera, which explains why this portion right here would be redacted.
01:12:57.480So that's me and Andrew's professional opinion as to why we think this portion is redacted.
01:13:02.020And then moving on, you see here that they go into the box containing documents transported from the White House to Mar-a-Lago.
01:13:08.120And then this whole portion is redacted as well.
01:13:10.100This probably has detailed information for people that may or may not have been involved in Trump's moving situation that saw the documents as well and or may have even handled the documents.
01:13:20.360We're talking about professional movers.
01:13:22.260We're talking about government officials that helped them.
01:13:24.820Hell, maybe a Secret Service agent or here or there may have also seen the boxes and provided this information.
01:13:30.240And here you can see this was clearly a picture.
01:13:32.820This picture right here guaranteed probably came from a source, guys, that if this picture was disclosed,
01:13:38.560they would immediately be able to tell, OK, this person just took this picture on this day at this time.
01:13:42.920We know who the fuck that is. OK, so they had to redact that.
01:13:48.020And then here, here's more information that I guarantee you source information about the move to Mar-a-Lago.
01:13:53.680And the next page, if you go to the next page, Byron, it gives you a little bit.
01:13:57.780Yeah, there you go. So you get a little bit of meat because you didn't see right underneath the header,
01:14:02.260provision of the boxes to NARA. You can see on that meat, 39 right there, right in the middle,
01:14:06.760right in the middle, that this relates back to, once again, the charge,
01:14:11.800because the charge is if you're interfering with an agency that deals with documents.
01:14:17.060So they're saying that, hey, they made a request.
01:14:19.620They made a request about these documents in December 2021.
01:14:24.260So this goes back to, hey, we're charging the president with taking documents he shouldn't have taken.
01:14:32.360Here's what the here's the timeline. Right.
01:14:34.480And then back to confidential information.
01:14:36.340But an interesting point about this is, Myron, look at the bottom where it says a little one.
01:15:11.360Yeah. And just to double down on what you said, because that was a fantastic point.
01:15:14.980And that's a sharp eye that you notice that footnote.
01:15:17.000Let me break this down for you real quick.
01:15:18.720Whenever you have an informant, a lot of the times in the footnote, the agent or the AUSA,
01:15:23.360whoever writes the document, what they're going to do is they're going to say confidential source one or two or three or whatever it is,
01:15:29.980is reliable, reliable because such and such has been proven to be involved, you know,
01:15:35.180has provided information to other investigations or subject is a reliable informant because,
01:15:40.440hell, it could be a Secret Service agent and they have intimate knowledge of Trump's, you know,
01:15:45.500dealings when it comes from moving from the White House to to Mar-a-Lago or it can be a NARA official who's a professional subject matter expert in the classification of documents.
01:15:55.000And they understand that these documents, if discovered, could have grave consequences on national security, blah, blah, blah.
01:15:59.800But this footnote, which I'm really glad you mentioned this, Andrew, more than likely is information on a source saying why that source is credible
01:16:08.520and why this is an affidavit in the first place or be methodologies and tactics when dealing with classified information.
01:16:15.860So this footnote is a very important thing right here.
01:16:18.880This is definitely has to do with either a source or some type of procedure handling.
01:17:00.580And I'm willing to bet, once again, the reason why the FBI has these pictures, like, you guys got to remember, when you're trying to get a search warrant, okay?
01:17:09.860You need to take pictures and put things in your affidavit that prove the evidence that you're looking for is there.
01:17:17.400So what this tells me is that this source, whoever it is, took pictures of these boxes that has classified information in it and provided it to the FBI.
01:17:29.380Obviously, the FBI have to be able to show these pictures to show, yo, this is why we're so sure that this information is at his house, these classified documents are at his house.
01:17:38.000However, disclosing these pictures is going to burn the source because the date and time of the picture is going to have to be disclosed and the location, the coordinates, all that stuff.
01:17:48.060So quickly, if Trump's, you know, defense counsel is able to get this, they're going to be able to figure out who had access to the compound at this date, on this time, et cetera.
01:17:57.940Hell, it might even been a staff of the Secret Service, guys.
01:18:05.480Another thing, too, I want to mention is that, guys, you've got to remember that Secret Service are still sworn law enforcement officials, okay?
01:18:13.380So if they see a crime being committed, they kind of have a duty to act, bro, you know?
01:18:18.980So if they see classified documents being handled carelessly and blah, blah, blah, even though they work for the President of the United States, there's nothing stopping them from calling the Office of Inspector General, right, Department of Homeland Security, hey, I want to remain anonymous, this is what's going on, blah, blah, blah.
01:18:36.880And then obviously the Office of Inspector General, DHS has no venue there.
01:19:03.180So, yeah, this right here tells me, guys, this is source information right here.
01:19:06.420Pictures, paragraphs preceding it, the footnote earlier that Andrew caught, sharp eye right there, by the way.
01:19:13.540Yeah, this is 100%, in my professional opinion, source information.
01:19:18.020And then the picture just puts the, you know, the explanation point on it.
01:19:22.320Okay, so now we're at a part where we're not redacted anymore.
01:19:26.200The 15 boxes provided to NARA contain classified information.
01:19:29.220From May 16th to the 18th, 2022, FBI agents conducted a preliminary review of the 15 boxes provided to NARA and identified documents with classification markings in 14 of the 15 boxes.
01:19:39.800A preliminary triage of the documents with classification markings revealed the following approximate numbers.
01:19:44.680184 unique documents bearing classification markings, including 67 documents marked as confidential, 92 documents marked as secret, and 25 documents marked as top secret.
01:19:55.680Further, the FBI agents observed markings reflecting the following compartment size dissemination controls, HDS, FISA, ORCON, NOFORIN, and SI.
01:20:05.740Which, as you guys know, these are markings that typically go on top secret documents to make them even more, how do I say this, for lack of a better term, exclusive.
01:20:14.760Okay, and I say that with air quotes, with less people can access them.
01:20:18.820Based on my training experience, I know that the documents classified at these levels typically contain national defense information.
01:20:24.760Several of the documents also contain what appears to be foreign president of the United States' handwritten notes.
01:20:30.060So Trump wrote on some of these documents, okay?
01:20:33.800So it looks like here the FBI was in Mar-a-Lago back in May, okay?
01:20:41.200Yeah, I mean, I think this is something that's been going on for at least for probably a year now.
01:20:45.860This is something that's been going on for at least a year, and we know that.
01:20:48.640We've known that, that this has been something that's been going on for a while.
01:20:51.440I think Merrick Garland confessed to that, actually, when he gave his statement in terms of the duration of this.
01:20:58.540So, yeah, I'm not surprised at all that they were back there looking, doing a preliminary review in May, right?
01:21:06.240Getting ready for this, because they've got to line their queues up, their P's and Q's up, if they're going over to actually raid a fucking president's home.
01:21:14.420Doing an unprecedented action, something that's never been done before, over documents.
01:50:49.780And there's, that's a whole other game.
01:50:52.040I'm not going to get into details about that.
01:50:53.580But as a case agent, a lot of the times you don't want to be, you don't want to be exposed to classified information, attorney, client privilege information, et cetera, because it's going to fuck with your ability to be a reliable witness.
01:51:04.560Because now if they put you on the stand and they ask you questions, well, agent such and such, did you see this attorney client privilege and did it, you know, make you, or did it hurt your ability to be impartial in this investigation?
01:51:15.940Or do you use any of that information?
01:51:17.300Just like what Andrew said, it's, it's a slippery slope that can lead to you using fruits of a poisonous tree, which can fuck up the entire investigation.
01:51:23.720Because if you get one piece of bad evidence, it ruins everything after that.
01:51:27.200So you're better off just not tainting the agents that are involved in the actual investigation, put a taint team in place, or you put an agent that, um,
01:51:34.560that handles a classified stuff kind of as a buffer, as a wall, he could go ahead and handle that stuff.
01:51:39.620You go ahead and you stay on the lifestyle. You do your regular investigation. That's how you want to do it.
01:51:43.000So, um, that's the importance of having that. And it's interesting that they employed this tactic, searching Trump's house.
01:51:48.620That tells me right there that they were on their P's and Q's and they knew what the hell they were doing.
01:51:52.400Um, and then here I find these very interesting. Uh, they talked about, uh, the privilege review team determines the documents, uh, or data are not potentially attorney client privilege.
01:52:00.620Then they'll go ahead and give it. But the interesting thing is here.
01:52:03.940On 84, Andrew, where they say, yes, you want to, you want to kind of explain this to the people?
01:52:09.720Yeah. If they're potentially, so it says that they're potentially client privilege or merit for the consideration, they can, they can, they don't necessarily do it,
01:52:17.700but they can apply for an ex parte, meaning without the other party ex parte means from one party.
01:52:24.940So IE the FBI, IE Trump is not going to be in court when they're deciding whether or not these things are attorney client privilege.
01:52:33.720Now, honestly, this is one of the biggest things that people hate about law enforcement is that a lot of these things get go on without the other party.
01:52:40.820I would argue that in these cases where they're doing something like this, they should allow the other party there to argue because it's not allowing a full and fair, I think, consideration of whether these things are attorney client privilege.
01:52:51.700But that being said, this is the FBI's process. So they go to the court and the judge determines whether or not the documents are attorney client privilege.
01:53:00.180They may also seek court intervention and continue to keep the documents inaccessible from law enforcement personnel or disclose them.
01:53:07.660So disclose it to the potential privilege holder.
01:53:10.140So to the attorney for Trump and request that the privilege holder state whether they assert attorney client privilege to the documents or not.
01:53:18.380Now, if you thought about A, B or C, obviously, of those three options, A is probably the one they would prefer to do.
01:53:26.700They would probably prefer to go to the court without Trump. Right.
01:53:30.040And get a termination if they think they can do that.
01:53:32.980They can also hold the documents off, but they want to use the documents.
01:53:36.580So I think they'd probably prefer to do A out of those three methods.
01:53:42.100You know, and that's the worst case if they come across it.
01:53:44.360But more than likely, they had an attorney there.
01:53:46.040If you guys noticed, they said they they had a privilege team attorney, a privilege review team attorney.
01:53:51.940So what they want to do, guys, is they want to have the privilege team go through everything.
01:53:56.840And then the case agents stay away from anything that could be privileged because they don't want to taint them.
01:54:00.900And I know for a fact this case team right here, these are the agents out of Washington, D.C.
01:54:05.700that are actually handling the investigation.
01:54:07.240It was probably a whole squad, probably five to ten agents that were involved.
01:54:11.020You've got the case agent along with his, you know, nine squad mates, ten squad mates, whatever it may be.
01:54:15.660Or hell, maybe they even brought two squads down from Washington, D.C.
01:54:18.740And then you have the West Palm agents that are, you know, the local agents that are just helping out.
01:54:22.660They're the privilege review team and they have a lawyer on the team as well to make sure that, you know, they got everybody.
01:55:33.620This is the POTUS, the POTUS letter, which we've seen, we've read.
01:55:36.960It involves the assertion by Evan Cochran that these documents are indeed not privileged, that these are documents that are not confidential.
01:55:49.060And then the president has, yep, this is the guy, yep, this is the attorney for, I think it looks like, Trump.
01:55:59.380And remember, this is one of the documents that was referenced during the body, right?