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Speaker 1: Garland says he asked to judge to unseal the warrant,

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Speaker 1: joining US live as Bloomberg's marketing a cat Bloomberg National

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Speaker 1: Politics reporter Mark This is unusual circumstance, first of the

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Speaker 1: search warrant on a former president of the United States,

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Speaker 1: and now the Attorney General coming out basically and saying,

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Speaker 1: you lay your hands, don't lay any hands verbally on

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Speaker 1: on my people. Right. It's very unusual for the Justice

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Speaker 1: Department to speak about an ongoing investigation. The usually let

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Speaker 1: their court actions, uh, you know, speak for them. Um.

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Speaker 1: But Marrick Garland I think was more or less forced

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Speaker 1: into saying something because Donald Trump and you know, his

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Speaker 1: Republican supporters were portraying that search at his Marilago resort

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Speaker 1: as some kind of politically motivated, you know, attack on

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Speaker 1: him that was unwarranted. So Marrick Garland essentially gave a

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Speaker 1: press conference a statement today saying, you know, he didn't

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Speaker 1: take this decision lightly to uh. He said he personally

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Speaker 1: agreed to uh seek the search warrant to look for

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Speaker 1: the documents and records they're they're looking for at mar Lago. UH.

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Speaker 1: And he defended his agents UH for UM doing their

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Speaker 1: jobs essentially against the attacks from Trump and the Republicans,

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Speaker 1: so that we all understand, he is bound to not

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Speaker 1: release the contents of the warrant. That's why he's asked

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Speaker 1: the judge UM to open it. Donald Trump, though, is

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Speaker 1: in possession of it and can release it an information

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Speaker 1: that probably things in it that Trump doesn't want to

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Speaker 1: make public. That's exactly righted. And in fact, Trump also

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Speaker 1: has the ability to object to the unceiling of the

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Speaker 1: search warrant if he wants. The judge gave Trump until

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Speaker 1: three o'clock Eastern tomorrow to object to the unseiling. So

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Speaker 1: you know, the ball is kind of in Donald Trump's

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Speaker 1: court now, and Merrick Garland is kind of calling his

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Speaker 1: bluff that you know, this search of his mar Lago

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Speaker 1: home was unjustified. Yeah, and uh and this is as

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Speaker 1: you say, uh, and we have about thirty set Mark,

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Speaker 1: but responding to criticism both from Trump and from right

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Speaker 1: wing commentators and the light correct right, I mean, their

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Speaker 1: third opportuning this as overreached by the government or attacks

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Speaker 1: from Democrats all bent on trying to keep Trump from

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Speaker 1: running again. In the tea. All right, Mark, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for your time, really appreciate it. Mark Niquette's

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Speaker 1: political national correspondent to Bloomberg