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Retentions, and no ones being dismissive. when i hear that phrase, document retention, that you heard on the other panel, about this being something relegated to a minor thing. these are current laws on the books involving the presidential records act, involving congressional legislation to say, we as a society do not want documents that are classified or of national security interest or otherwise or defense information to be out and about, retained, released, disclosed, in some way. so, when yo...

Means this entire thing is not in a criminal setting. its a statutory scheme about document retention that was no criminal penalty. the idea you can be doing armed raids and even criminal grand jury subpoenas is ludicrous. >> this indictment comes as president trump separately faced state charges in new york. thats for his role in hush money payments or a hush money payment to stormy daniels on the eve of the 2016 election. the former president is facing investigations regarding january 6th and ...

Government property that was sensitive in a place it shouldnt have been. and potentially an investigation got tampered with. >> what are your thoughts on the florida grand jury that continues to hear testimony in the federal investigation? can you learn anything from the fact that the focus seems to have moved to that location? >> the very important caveat we dont know, you really bring a grand jury in another state because thing about bringing charges there, different crimes -- the justice depa...

Fact, a target of a classified documents investigation. in other words, he believes he has evidence indicating trump committed a crime. and another new detail not about when, but where, charges would likely be brought. "the washington post" now reporting that a, quote, significant portion of any charges against trump will be brought in south florida close to mar-a-lago. trumps former defense attorney tim parlatore was on "the last word" last night, and he talked about the shift in place. >> if y...

Prosecutors have a lot of discretion -- >> why would they do that? >> so the role of a prosecutor is that you get to choose what federal district you could to bring your case in. but asked to be a federal district for some portion of the crime occurred. here, you can see how the crime occurred in florida. the document retention and mishandling crime and the obstruction crime. the other argument is d. c.. well, he took the documents from d. c.. that would be the scene at the crime. but the counte...

Between the two cases as far as we know now that trump intended to take them. hes happy to trim them back. so that willfulness is the key element to whether there will be charges putting aside the obstruction on the document retention and handling side. >> so when this news comes as the president is set to meet face to face with kevin mccarthy today to talk about the debt ceiling and any sort of negotiations that can move forward on that issue, do you see this at any point becoming a distraction...

Equivalence to the biden document retention and the trump document retention. does he now have to assign a special counsel to pence? what do you think the threshold is at this point given the asymmetry of what biden did and what trump did as far as classified documents. is pence going to be roped into all of this as well? >> he might, but i dont think were there yet. and heres why. part of the reason there was a special counsel assigned for donald trump was because donald trump finally declared ...

And they took these documents, at least six classified documents, including other documents, and handwritten letters from joe biden. the fbi took that and now its part of this investigation. bakari, this is truly remarkable. the fbi searching the private property of a sitting president. how politically damaging is this to president biden, in your view? >> first of all, i dont think its truly remarkable. i think they were doing a disservice when we begin to lump in donald trump, hillary clinton, ...

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That at least in recent months investigators were in contact with roughly half a dozen of mr. trumps current aides who had knowledge of how the documents had been kept at mar-a-lago, how they were handled, two people briefed said at least one witness provided investigators with information that wanted to further press mr. trump for material, according to a person familiar with the inquiry. theres a lot there, cynthia. if you are working at the justice department right now, what are you doing wit...