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Its simultaneously those two things going on for the former president. i think ultimately hes hoping that hell be able to at least for the short time being be able to cash in on this serious legal threat he faces. >> theres no escaping the fact that is a distant second choice to not being indicted, charged or put on trial. i mean, he has tried to avoid criminal accountability since hes been on planet earth. as a shoddy businessman, he positions himself between shoddy and flagrantly criminal for ...

Each time, you dont get all of them. we know that as a matter of fact. those are the facts. the question about whether -- the reason for that. at one point, you get and attestation signed by a lawyer being like, weve searched high and low. this is as best we can tell its everything. then you get a search by the fbi of 100 more dogs. while someone was wrong. someone screwed this up. yeah? >> the certification that was given at the time was largely a form, standard form certification, saying dilig...

I think that had there been a lot more cooperation on both sides, im not saying anything about mr. corcoran here. but i think that definitely in the ordinary courts, you would have more cooperation communication. not only from the defense, but also on the doj side. i think that the matter -- really the matter in which they communications happened, it led to that. >> let me play william barr to making a somewhat point -- hes making it more about the trump folks. basically this was avoidable if yo...

6th committee and testify at some length. we appreciated that, but there are some things that only he could talk about. for example, the phone call that he and the president, former president had on the moment morning of january six. he left a meeting he was with with his staff and went into another room to take that call. we dont know what was said. there is a lot that they need to find out that we simply could not find a. >> you made a point a marc short and greg jacobs his advisers testified ...

We want to know his interaction with mark meadows and a variety of other people. now he did have members of his staff come before the january 6th committee and testify at some length. we appreciated that, but there are some things that only he could talk about. for example, the phone call that he and the president, former president had on the moment morning of january six. he left a meeting he was with with his staff and went into another room to take that call. we dont know what was said. there...

Suggests that president biden is laying out his frustration on staffers who he is concerned acted sloppily with those documents. do you think that there is where the d.o.j.s focus is? it is on identifying who handled these document, how they got where this they were, et cetera, more than on president biden himself? >> well, i think there are two elements on the d.o.j. side. why is the national security assessment and part of it is who is going to be who had access to the document, not just over ...

Mar-a-lago documents and what will happen on the d.o.j. side and now you have all of these developments. and what the president said previously on 60 minutes and elsewhere about the handling of classified information. >> bill: now the report is from reuters that they were found in his garage at his home in wilmington, delaware. >> dana: so as in not a locked closet. i dont know, bret. one of the things you have to imagine is that the white house thinks could it be even more, right? they want to ...

Will yes thats a big question, don. we say to people that were potentially cooperators, dont stop halfway across the ditch. you either jump all the way across and join us here on the doj side, or stay over there and we will deal with you as necessary so if there has been a subpoena already that essentially says, hey mark meadows, give us everything youve already given the january six committee, the next subpoena, if doj has the, well thats like now gave us everything else. and if he was this tha...

Justice department and whether they and the judge can agree on it, so well see. >> so thats the doj side. lets turn to trump. he and his allies are pushing for the affidavit to be unsealed, but the judge today points out they have yet to file a motion in court to that effect. so help us make sense of this. it appears that were seeing a public side to this story and one quite different in court. >> i think thats exactly it. its sort of a public side -- its like a political side but also a legal s...

Subpoenaed apple in early 2018 for records of more than 100 accounts. Among them, chairman adam schiff and congressman eric swalwell, both democrats on the house intel committee, as well as their staffs and their family members, including a minor. Prosecutors also obtained a gag order so apple could not disclose this and it was renewed three times before trump left office. Apple was only able to notify the people involved in may. This was all part of an effort by President Trump to find who was ...