A body-worn camera from local police officers in Fulton County captured the FBI raid of the Georgia elections center. And professor James Sample, Hofstra University School of Law, told MS NOW that the arguments in the short 93-second bodycam video shows a debate over the process of the warrant.
Sample says it might be enough for a court challenge.
"Down the road, that could be a basis for a lawsuit, if, in fact, the government is seizing materialmaterial that is either not properly specified or the location is not properly specified," said Sample. "It's a little unclear. I think the real questions here will be about who's driving this. I mean, think about, you know, the DNI [Director of National Intelligence] ends up being part of this search. And then the phone call. I was thinking about an analogy today. Imagine a scenario where you were at Mar-a-Lago and Jack Smith or Merrick Garland had called President [Joe] Biden during the search for those documents."
He said that the outrage from the GOP would have exploded on Capitol Hill.
"That's essentially the equivalent of what we're talking about," he said about the Fulton County raid. "And it would have been outrageous had it occurred. This is being driven in a way that we talk about on a regular basis, and we may be a broken record, but the line between the White House and the Department of Justice is no longer blurry. It's just gone."
Host Ana Cabrera noted that Congress is supposed to be a check on that power.
"The hypocrisy is astounding," MS Now journalist Ken Dilanian said.
He also noted the raid came the week after the top FBI official in the Atlanta office was ousted. MS NOW later confirmed that it was due to his resistance to the raid.