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Naro was involved intermingled with personal documents and mementos. i guess maybe the worst case scenario for both is special counsel has been appointed in both instances to look into whether or not there is a criminal prosecution here. jon: we put together a list of bullet points of some of your remarks and i want to put those on the screen for our viewers. in the biden case you say there are no claims of any privileges where the former president claimed executive religion. we dont know how ma...

Documents. those last two points, take those on for us. >> sure, the vice president of the united states is not commander-in-chief and the law as it relates to declassification authority, the president of the united states, he can wave a magic wand, he can in the dark, silently to himself declare a document declassified. its a horrifying practice and legal reality especially for our nations secrets. you can take that up with article two, the constitution. as far as the vice president goes, unles...

The moment as dan was saying. but look, in some ways, there are bigger questions legally around the fact biden has these documents and there are trump. you know, trump had declassification authority as president, and the presidential records act which he likely is violated in some way has only minor penalties attached to it. there is less flexibility in the maneuvering of vice president has to maintain classified documents outside of secure facilities, and so well have to see how that plays out ...

Left by a former obama official that those documents were taken. everyone was aware the documents were at mar-a-lago under the purview of the secret service and that those records were taken under the presidential records act. he had a basis for removing documents from the white house. none of that applies to vice president biden and what we are finding out is that documents that he didnt have authority to take that were classified and that he says he has no knowledge about are being found in mu...

Handling classified material. >> particularly how the department of justice is handling a paperwork dispute with the former president trump, with former president trump, you know, there were ongoing discussions with the -- president trump about how to handle his paperwork disputes. they raid mar-a-lago. they set up a special counsel. here we have a joe biden who did not have declassification authority since he was only vice president at the time that he took these classified documents which is i...

Current white house counselor. this is an actual conflict of interest involving the entire biden white house at this point in time. it is beyond debate whether or not a special counsel is necessary to look into this. it is absolutely required under the law at this point. >> bill: it is obvious from that answer were at the beginning stages of this story. you would agree with that? there are a lot of layers to this and it goes right to the west wing. >> absolutely. very clearly. again, i think thi...

These allegations. >> one thing weve heard from people who have handled these kind of documents, you have as well, maybe theres a problem with over classification. talk to me about that. >> well, i do think when you hear the term classified documents, that can refer to any number of things and certain things are more important than others, if you will. so in terms of government agencies, there is a significant amount of classification. there are things that happen on a regular basis with people ...

Declassification authority. so it is true, and this is actually speaking of bill clinton, this was something that judge jackson resolved when bill clinton was keeping classified information in his sock drawer. that went to -- that was a court case that was resolved in bill clintons favor. and so, again, we have these two standards of justice with prime ministers in the recent past -- presidents in the recent past where some are treated differently than others, and that cant happen. this entire p...

Thing donald trump can do is stop tweeting, stop talking about this and let this die in the vine as i believe it will. >> you think this is all about the national archives wanting its documents back in the d.o.j. throbbing and classified to sort of amp up the urgency? >> they needed criminal predicate to get a search warrant in the presidential records act which is act that governs who owns presidential property does not have a criminal provision. if the d.o.j. was clever, i have no doubt they c...

That question, by the way,e about the surveillance video that they subpoena s t from inse mar a lago was trained on the storage area that was supposed to be locked up.in so again, the leaks about theres supposed to you know, we would imagine because of the leaks something untowardid on one of thoseeo videos, which is we know from our history h with other cases would go to their case for some type of could be based on a number of things, a changing of documents, false statements as to what are co...