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Trump criminal defense team on the documents case. now you heard andrew weissmann at the beginning of the show where we talked about what is going on with a florida grand jury, what might this mean for possible future defended trump in a documents prosecution jurisdictionally, would that be in a florida federal court, would that be -- what do you think? >> well, i listen to that piece, i actually agree with just about everything you said there. this case, you know, if you look at the allegations...

From being completely false, is professionally damaging. there was not something i was going to allow that to continue -- so, theres a reason why i went in and said the things that i said at that time. but i will tell you this. i said those things. but i dont want to continue to belabor that point. >> thats why it showed the video. i dont care about the boris epshteyn thing. what i care about is, obstruction is the theme of the documents case. and donald trump is running a weird obstruction oper...

He would testify. you would likely have his counsel sending a letter saying that he would -- to all questions. and that will end the whole matter. >> andrew, so, on monday, we have that dramatic news that the trump defense team is meeting with jack smith on the documents case, apparently. that seems like a very last step in the process. then we see that there they are still talking to witnesses in the grand jury now florida now, where today there is this report that other news outlets have that ...

Means they are confident they have met each one of those standards and that they can meet those standards even in the face of judges who may be and have proven themselves to be inclined to be favorable to former president trump or a jury pool -- a jury pool that may be more receptive to hearing former president trumps arguments. that would be different and more distinct than it would be in washington, d.c. we are only talking about the potential charges that relate to the documents case. there a...

You go first. this is your hazing officially. >> thank you. >> go on. >> thank you, joy. i feel the love through the screen. good to be with you. >> absolutely. you are absolutely right that the jury matters in a case like this. what matters more are facts. and what we know now publicly is that there are an overwhelming amount of facts in this documents case. i hate to even call it a documents case, joy, because the fact of the matter is, we know that donald trump had 324 classified documents at...

Should be disqualified from being the nominee, et cetera, and then you have every other republican, nikki -- well, we dont know what nickity healy is going to land and mike pence included, ron desantis who are saying this is all political. the justice department is political. how stopping do you think the evidence has to be to get the desantises and the pences to be like, well, this is -- this looks really bad? >> first of all, i think its going to be a little bit hard to say. one of the interes...

Prosecutor would want to talk to him. what does all this mean for donald trump tonight? >> well, i think it could be very challenging for donald trump to get around testimony by mark meadows. as mike said, mark meadows was the right-hand man, he was the chief of staff. hes got key evidence in both cases, i know lately, weve been talking a lot about the mar-a-lago case. that one seems to be nearing completion. i think mark meadows is exceptionally important in the january 6th investigation. in ad...

Justice department, part of restoring trust is to convince the american people that your case is strong enough to withstand any jury, in any court of law, you have evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. and you dont need to monkey around with juries in order to win. >> barr, but what do you make of the second grand jury in florida? >> yeah, im not sure. it could be, as katie said, theyve changed the locust and put the case there. it strikes me, its quite possible that there is a one-off charge ther...

Involved investigations they got some press attention, and certainly not to the level that this case says, it often seems that theres three or four facts there in the public domain. and three or 400 that were unknown to the public. my guess is something similar going on here, theres just a lot we dont know. >> well, im ready to know more. katie, nbc has confirmed that over 20 members of trumps secret service detail either appeared or were subpoenaed by the washington post and jury. when you hear...