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Top secret documents in a storage facility. i mean, could you imagine if hypothetically somebody forgot to make a payment and like in that tv show storage wars, somebody comes in and are like, oh my god, there is my tyson championship belt, oh theres top secret information on our nuclear silo locations. or whatever it might be. could you imagine what you are talking about here? the fact that they would put it in a storage facility, in my opinion, goes to his guilty mind. knowing that they were s...

Contempt and then by friday night, you already have the news that judge howell had decided not to do that. joyce was on with us earlier and she said that perhaps this was trying to give the trump team enough rope to hang themselves. i wonder if that is how you see it? >> thats probably true. i think one of the problems is, that subpoena, was issued to the trump office and not to trump in his personal capacity. the reason you dont issue a proof subpoena like that to trump personally is because of...

Not in it to win it, he is just in it for other reasons whether protecting himself from prosecution or otherwise. >> i wonder david cay johnston if you agree with that? >> i think that is fundamentally correct and former congressman is correct, you come out first because you want to own the field to keep other people away, donald was able to get the nomination 16 because he picked people off one at the time as he bragged about his ability to do. >> as he bragged about it. as he bragged about man...

Whatever it might be, could you imagine what we are talking about here? the fact that they would put it in a storage facility in my opinion goes to his mans rhea, his guilty mind knowing that they were stashing stuff in various different places. >> the distrust between the doj and trumps legal team on full display what prosecutors asked the judge, told trumps team in contempt over classified documents. that request was denied, this legal case takes when you turn, trumps political influence is on...

If you agree with that? >> i think that is fundamentally correct and former congressman is correct, you come out first because you want to own the field to keep other people away, donald was able to get the nomination 16 because he picked people off one at the time as he bragged about his ability to do. >> as he bragged about it. as he bragged about many things, lisa, one of the stories that we followed this week was what was happening, i was on thursday night and we talked about the possibility...

By handing over documents -- you can invoke that first amendment and hear the evidence that would show contempt of the subpoena is itself evidence of criminality, on our unlawful retention of classified documents or obstruction of justice. i think the next step for the department of justice which still wants the documents back -- they >> want the documents and they want to know that they actually have all of them? >> thats correct. >> one of the things department is doing is trying to exhaust al...

There was this motion to hold the trump office in contempt last week that was denied. it may be that they saw that as a next step that was important to moving towards getting probable cause for a search warrant. >> some storage facility, and david, thanks so much for spending part of your sunday with us. up next, the last-minute push for congress to push bipartisan immigration reform before years and. texas congressman joaquin castro on what it will take to make that happen. plus, brittney grine...

The judge reportedly pressed the Trump team and the Justice Department to work together to find a mutually agreeable resolution.

GREENUP Outstanding charges appeared to catch up with a defendant who managed to evade court appearances for nearly a year.

Played in russia, and she says, shell never go back. here with me now is karen fitty. also former congressman joe walsh, and cnn political analyst alex burns. im taking off my bracelet, not because im getting ready to do anything crazy. it hits the table, alex. dont get afraid. were getting into whats going on with donald trump. i have to ask you, this federal judge declining to hold him in contempt for whats been quite obvious to everyone in the sense that, look, there were documents that belon...