Not that Turner would ever need to worry, because he says he doesn’t take classified documents home. “Do you take home documents with special access?” CNN anchor Brianna Keilar asked Turner on CNN’s State of the Union. “No,” Turner replied. That was often the case during Turner’s heated interview Sunday, his second appearance on the network in the last week. All the while, the Republican House Intelligence Committee member has repeatedly blasted the FBI and Justice Department’s decision to raid the former president’s home on Monday … while also admitting he would not have engaged in his alleged behavior Trump. Keillor pressed Turner on his double standard approach, as Turner used some mental gymnastics to question whether the documents were even a national security threat in the first place. If it wasn’t, he said, that wouldn’t justify an hours-long raid. But he admitted he didn’t know that was happening. “[The DOJ] he was concerned that this could be a threat to national security. When you question that, do you have evidence that he was not a threat to national security?’ Keilar asked. “We don’t have to speculate,” Turner said. “We have all the permission. Congress has all oversight powers. All Attorney Garland has to do is comply with the laws, provide us with this information. Let’s look. Show us the goods.” Elsewhere in the interview, Keilar pressed Turner about Hillary Clinton’s previous conviction for handling classified information. He asked why he wasn’t holding Trump to the same standard, to which Turner claimed Trump was not involved in any ongoing diplomacy because of the “static” nature of the paper documents. Again, Keilar questioned how Turner could claim this without evidence. “How do you know it’s not in progress? You have not been told what you want to be told,” he said. “How do you know this?” Turner could not answer. “The cards are static. It’s not continuous data communications and data transmissions, which was going through Clinton’s server,” he said. “They didn’t raid her house. They raided his house.” Turner sought to highlight some of the GOP’s partisan theories about the raid, including Trump’s claim that all the documents were declassified only because they came into his possession before he left office. He also suggested that Garland — “whose personal career was derailed en route to the Supreme Court by Donald Trump himself” — might not have conducted the raid fairly since Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) suspended the his nomination to the Supreme Court six years ago. However, Turner admitted he didn’t have the answers to back up the hints he made. Instead, he called on the Justice Department to defend the “intrusive” raid and provide the House Intelligence Committee with the documents. “Show us the goods,” he said.
