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Means to handle classified documents. he knows that these are regulated by certain laws. for him to say at trial, if there were to be some defense, that the government has failed to prove the requisite intent, theyll play this tape. i think a jury will find beyond a reasonable doubt that he absolutely knew what he was doing was illegal. >> gene, the government has trump coming and going as far as intent goes and knowledge of the law. yes, they have him on tape saying, you know, as a former presi...

And how many there were, frankly. i think the counts under the espionage act or solid counts. if even half of it is true, he is toast. and so very detailed indictment, and its very very damning. i think you know this to be true, with your take on the fact that even bill barr, very few would call -- well, barr the attorney general of this country calling donald trump toast with this indictment. >> yeah, even fog bill barr says you are in trouble here, this is the guy you covered up donald trump c...

I think the value of that transcript is damning though. because what it does is undermine any argument that trump has, that he didnt understand how the declassification process worked. and that he recognized that he wasnt supposed to have classified information, or to show it to any unauthorized third parties. there is another instance that is also described in the complaint, of a description where he might have showed a classified map to a pack official. a political operative. again, not charge...

Interview as a road map for the types of evidence they have been working to secure in the time since. they have been pushing to get these records from the national archives that include com communications about the declsification process, which wh did he cls if i. we know they brought in several senior trump officials, including robert obrien, who told the grand jury that we had conversations with trump specifically, directly, and we told him and made clear there was a process for declassifying ...

Mishandling of documents, those are different in terms of volume. dozens of documents versus over 100. also the conduct. cooperation. possible obstruction. the types of questions prosecutors are asking, they are just asking about boxes and packing. the trump lawyers probably wish those were the questions they were asking about that investigation. and its clear they believe the trump is in the court of public opinion. he didnt know the process or have to follow it. its significant because it show...

Were really aggressively focused on anything that had to do with firsthand interactions with trump, especially about conversations related to the declassification process. we have seen that play out in the times of this interview. we have seen official gos in and testify before the grand jury about the declassification process and about their conversations with trump. compared to the biden interview, it was very different. this official went in and it was about the mechanics of these boxes. how ...

This official who served in both trump and the biden administrations, a careerist flr with the class few indication process, has spoken to prosecutors about what donald trump knew, what donald trump was told, while he was in the white house about the process he understood the rules. plus spoke don mcgahn, big players, smart people, close people to donald trump, they all knew the process and talked to trump about it as well. so what trump says publicly contradicts what you have learned here. >> e...

Nothing approaching that trump had that standing order that i could snap. nothing approached that. i cant imagine anyone that worked at the white house after me would have shrugged their shoulders and allowed that to go forward. kelly making the point that we understood the rules ask we were not casual about them. therefore, the process should have been followed. >> have you ever heard of the declassification order? they have never heard it. clearly, they have never seen it, it likely doesnt exi...

This former white house staffer who told prosecutors that trump not only knew about the declassification process but also he followed it as president. >> yeah, this is a former career official. its somebody who advised both the obama and trump administrations on the declassification process and were learning for the first time that this witness was interviewed by both prosecutors in the trump documents case and biden documents case. what they laid out for us was a starkly different tone in both ...

Docs or so. and this really is a strong candidate for exactly the reason katie said. everythings been nailed up, for, i think, a long time. and the only remaining question even that is not much of a question is about state of mind. and, yes, for trump, whatever that paper is, it looks like meadows is misdescribing it. someone has said, maybe hes just faking it, it doesnt matter. the words coming out of his mouth meant, one, hes kept classified documents, and two, there are rules what he can do w...