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From the August 14, 2022, edition of Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo

MICHAEL MUKASEY (FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL): Well, if -- understand the Attorney General did not put forth any particular urgent justification for the search. He said that they like to use less intrusive methods when necessary, when possible, I'm sorry, and that they engage in focused searches. The warrant itself is completely unfocused, and he didn't explain what it was that made it impossible to do this in a less intrusive way. So I guess I'd kind of like to see that. I don't think we're ever going to see the affidavit in support of the warrant, although it would certainly be interesting to find out what it is that they were, they claim to have been looking for. But the warrant itself is very general, authorizes, again, the seizure of just about every piece of paper there.

MARIA BARTIROMO (ANCHOR): I mean, what's your sense of that? Is that right, to have such a general warrant on a former president? It's, obviously, unprecedented. 

MUKASEY: I don't think it's right to have that sort of warrant on anyone. The Fourth Amendment says that you have to describe, in particular, the particular place to be searched and the particular person or things to be seized. Particular is specific. This was not particular.

BARTIROMO: Right. 

MUKASEY: I told Andy, I think that James Madison must be twirling in his grave -- he's the one who drafted the fourth amendment, I believe -- he must be twirling in his grave like a pinwheel.