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Records to the department of justice. in october of 2021, multiple sources say national archives lawyer stopped another attorney, and they were concerned and warned people not to touch the boxes out of fear that sensitive material could be exposed to those without proper clearance. >> we are talking about documents where some of them are confidential and some are secret and some are top secret, and these are documents that relate to the u.s. national defense and they are our nuclear capabilities...

Capabilities, as well as by the way, our military capabilities. so incredibly serious documents. so there could be a mixed bag of motives that go here, for the jury to consider. >> andrew one of the reasons i beg you enjoys to come on, and come on together is that you wrote together a piece in the new york times on how to convict trump. and he stressed the importance of keeping it simple, right? in quote, fortunately for mr. trump everything you know what the case provides ample support for an e...

Trump, quote, would be the most reckless president in american history. and what weve learned in recent days in particular makes that that letter of theirs look particularly prescient. prophetic, even. this week donald trump became the first ex president in u.s. history to be indicted on federal criminal charges. in a stunning indictment unsealed on friday the justice department charged trump with 37 felony counts stemming from their investigation into the hundreds of classified documents recove...

Lawyer gary stern sought the intervention of another trump attorney. that fall a top official in trumps orbit says they were concerned and warned people not to touch the boxes out of fear that sensitive material could be exposed to those without the proper clearance. >> were talking about documents at all of the classification levels. some of them are confidential. some of them are secret. and then there are some that are top secret. and these are documents that relate to the u.s. national defen...

Detail the, nature of the documents that have been knowingly withheld, and then how trump basically obstructed justice in trying to hide move, and in some cases asking them to be destroyed. and this is documents that detailed defensive capabilities of the u.s. and its allies, our vulnerabilities to attack, our nuclear program, as well as how we might retaliate where we are attacked. im hoping that there are more voices on the other side who kind of recognize the gravity of the situation, and the...

Walk us through the take aways here. >> so much of interest. really a remarkable document. the first thing that jumped out to me is how significant and sensitive the documents are. the indictment tells us these are documents created for and by agencies like the krth ia, department of defense, national security agency and the department of energy. the indictment gives us a real sense of whats in these documents. it includes information about our defense and weapons capabilities. our potential cap...

From china in the region. >> gillian: asked about the claim the biden administration "inherited this issue" former dni john ratcliffe said it is not true. >> look, we took an incredible inventory of china and its capabilities during the trump administration and the idea that this kind of surveillance platform was present and being allowed is just -- you know, is just absurd and just like with the spy balloon situation youll see trump administration officials coming out and saying its simply not ...

Seriously. >> the white house today confirms china has been operating a spy base inside cuba for years. >> this is not a new development that china has been trying to achieve some intelligence-gathering capabilities in cuba. >> the admission comes just four days after kirby publicly shot down reporting about this spy base all together. >> im saying we have seen the report. its not accurate. >> secretary of state antony blinken insists the biden administrations strategy for dealing with chinese s...

Now saying. abcs rachel scott leading us off in miami tonight. >> former president donald trump arriving in miami one day before he will turn himself in at the federal courthouse to be arrested and arraigned on a sweeping 37-count indictment. trump has called on his supporters to protest. in miami, security preps underway, the citys republican mayor with this message. >> we wanted to ensure the public that we are ready. >> trump is accused of hoarding classified documents at his mar-a-lago resor...

Later by trumps first major fund-raiser of the 2024 campaign. the public response has been typical trump, slamming the special counsel, describing the case in apocalyptic terms. his legal team faces a daunting challenge, fighting a detailed indictment in which trumps own words are being used as evidence, based around his alleged attempts to mislead the doj and hold on to classified documents. here is how trumps former attorney general bill barr framed it on fox news. >> this entire thing came ab...