I'm John Batser. That is Macauter is here, my colleague and co-host and we're having a happy conversation with Andrew McCarthy.

Millions and millions and millions to be replaced by a courtroom in Manhattan, April 15th is a day, tax day,

and the charges against Donald Trump by the Manhattan District Attorney are, well I can't summarize them.

I can say that tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of documents showed up at

the last moment from the federal prosecutor's

office, the Southern District of New York.

And the question now is not guilt or is, is whether the Trump team has had chance to review 130,000

documents something like that and any my first question to you is why do these

documents show up now?

They've known about the Southern District has known about this trial for some time.

Well, I think, I suspect John now I worked at the Southern District for 20 years and I suspect

that none too happy about Mr. Bragg's prosecution because what he's actually trying to do is under the auspices of a New York

falsification of business records statute what he's in a very covert way trying to do is enforce federal campaign finance law, which is law that he doesn't have jurisdiction to enforce and is normally enforced by the Justice

Department and the Federal Election Commission, both of which looked at this case

and decided not to take enforcement action against Trump.

So in essence what you have here is brag trying to make the case that they will say the

Southern District failed to make a campaign finance case against Trump.

And I'm sure the Justice Department, because Alvin Bragg shouldn't be enforcing federal law and because it will ultimately make them look bad if he appears to have made a case that they didn't make or they chose not to pursue, I'm sure they weren't tripping over themselves

to be cooperative.

And as a result, according to Brad, a year ago when he asked for their files, rebuffed him and they're not legally required to help him

And then late in the game

Trump thought that the that there was more information out there particularly

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