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Within the committee that these men are all names under discussion for criminal referrals to the department of justice. again, this is a recommendation. in talking to the committee members, they do feel like they dont want to let anyone slip through the cracks. talking to benny thompson today he said we have the intention of making criminal referrals, but there were some things we covered during the course of the investigation that didnt feel like we could go without moving to the department of ...

Case? >> we know the justice department has assessed a -- in contempt and in recent years that the justice department believes that trump did not comply with the subpoena they sent over the summer asking him to return any documents of classified documents. we know after they got the subpoena there was a search at mar-a-lago. the fbi found more than 100 documents of classified markings. they -- we told our viewers that since then the trump lawyers hired a team to search for properties. they found...

Against trump and his lawyers. the justice department now asking for, you know, basically sanctions, holding these guys in contempt for the way they approached and handled the case at mar-a-lago. it, you kind of get the sense that all of those things are coming to that point. thats a packs. that moment. and so, yeah. i think right now with the very important decision about the trump entity, the brand, the company this week. also, the other elements of the legal matters that are falling into plac...

Federal president in contempt for his actions in the mar-a-lago documents case. lets bring it all down with -- the president and ceo of -- she is also msnbc contributor and michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee. former lieutenant governor of maryland, it is good to see you both, you know, michael, a lot of republicans reacted to griners release with criticism here is what senator roger marshall had to say, take a listen. >> lets think about we did hear. we traded a...

If one of their own, one of dojs own committed a crime, they will be just as eager to go a stir that person as anyone else. >> john, should the former president be concerned by the department of justice chances to convince a judge to get him held in contempt for the documents case? being held in contempt, does it matter from a legal standpoint? >> we dont know at this point in the recording what kind of content they are contemplating asking. whether civil or criminal. if it is civil, they will b...

>> laura: for twitter to claim they were transparent, now with everything that were seeing, its just offensive. >> laura, i dont quite know for reasonable people how you get across the idea, these people are just liars. its not complicated. they are liars. they lie all the time. they have total contempt for the rest of us. they think they can break the rules and get away with it. they think they are somehow this elite thats above us and that were too stupid to know what were doing and all too of...

Fine trump tens of thousands of dollars every day until the situation is worked out. well bradley moss, donald trump is the only final ball player in this story. if this contempt citation finds contempt and the penalty for that contempt, as is quite common, $1 figure per day that you remain in contempt there is only one person who can pay it, but legally can that burden be placed on donald trump through this process? >> yes it can, and according to some of the reporting in the cnn reporting, at ...

That youve asked and are unable to do that? >> i think theres two things, laura, the first thing is, when you have a difficult client, that being donald trump, i think he directs his attorneys what to do and what not to do. and thats pretty shameful. because attorneys, quite frankly, need to be directing you as to whats appropriate and not appropriate. but at the end of the day, laura, as attorneys will or officers of the court. if you cant comply or take that mantra of being an officer of the c...

Cupp in -- its not like the national archives didnt give him a chance. for a year and a half, starting in may of 2021, they have tried virtually every month, we have a timeline, to get, to extract, the classified documents that they knew he had. because there were many missing, including the correspondence with kim jong-un? >> by the way, there are also top secret. >> yeah. >> its all he has had a chance. why wouldnt they hold him in contempt at this point? >> well, its going to be hard to figur...

>> well, its going to be hard to figure out who to hold in contempt because theyre playing this very odd game, something weve never seen before, as is often the case with donald trump. no one wants to step forward and say they were the official custodian and dont want to pay perjury or other professional sanctions for the attorneys that they have all the documents requested pursuant to the subpoena. as long as thats the case, who are you supposed to fine? >> donald trump. >> its a novel approach...