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Take over the justice department would actually be charged by the justice department. >> it is. its extraordinary. i mean, its almost equally extraordinary to think about how he got there in the first place, someone with these kind of extreme views who was willing to go to these lengths, creating this document that had all sorts of falsehoods in it and wanting to send it out as a department of justice communication. its just extraordinary that he was there. its unbelievable what he did. well see...

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...

Prevent the will of the people and caused an attack on congress. that is a great jury case for the prosecution! and so they remind us, now we are getting closer to the decisions about the case, ultimately it does come down to those 12 people. so i really do think that it puts the right lens on the ultimate question thats going to be asked soon -- not can they bring a criminal case? because surely theyre gonna be able to bring and prove that case, should they? and part of that is -- will a jury c...

Mar-a-lago grand jury and then be asked all of the questions. and those questions and asked airs if they ask questions about the insurrection, those questions and answers can be read into other grand jury. it doesnt matter what ground jury they go into, as long as they make a record about the conversations they had with trump. and what he was doing to overturn the election, and steal documents from the american people, and refused to return them for what she will ultimately be indicted. >> a ver...

The air. no more special master in the documents case. mr. erenberg, who is a dedicated veteran lawyer, you heard him say, he might expect charges in this case. i will remind everyone, no charges have yet been filed in the documents case. the special counsel is over seeing it. there have been questions whether lawyers or anyone else has misled the government. hes presumed innocent, but theres a lot of smoke around what the doj calls stolen top secret documents. appreciate you spending time with ...

But it remains to be seen how quickly the ways and means committee will be able to go through them. >> and bradley, final question to you, right? if you take a step back, and you look at their landscape, and all the different legal troubles that trump is facing right now, which one do you think is most likely to result in actual charges, of any? >> as far as im concerned, the documents case. i think that is the most clear cut, and most simple case to actually bring. you know, he took documents. ...

In a dramatic showdown with pence, in the days leading up to january 6th. >> and just to be abundantly clear, they want to talk to him about january 6th, i was talking about his pushback on the documents case, you know, all of these things, seemed to fold into each other and as time goes on, they are all related to donald trumps refusal to let go of the office of the white house, so to be clear, this would be about january 6th and it seems not about the documents. mike schmidt, thank you very mu...

Merrick garland emphasized in announcing this selection. >> yeah, and just a note to the audience, i know you know this professor tribe, but the attorney general is under his jurisdiction as the bureau of prisons, 34,000 people working there alone, not to mention the antitrust division of the justice department, civil rights division. all these divisions that have nothing to do with this kind of work, and so the attorney general to get a decision out of him, you have to get in line, even if you ...

This case something is going wrong, not how can we fix it? >> eva, the path, mccarthy isnt going to have an easy path right now. these new defections being announced from republicans, so what does that say to you? how is he going to deal with this? >> wolf, it does suggest it will be a difficult couple weeks for kevin mccarthy. it is easy for republicans, house republicans to talk tough now. i think lets see how they actually vote. this is one of their first tasks after retaking the majority. ch...

Killings of four idaho college students found dead in their home. cnn national correspondent natasha chen is on the scene for us tonight. natasha, you just spoke to the state police spokesperson. whats the latest? >> reporter: wolf, the spokesperson told us here they are definitely making progress. thats what he said when i asked whether they were any closer to having a suspect in this case. now, he did say that ever since a portal was opened online for people to submit potential surveillance fo...