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Back to the storage room. there are 30 boxes that walt and another person moved back into the storage room, and then evan does his search and finds documents with classification documents on it. >> it was part of an effort to not only conceal documents from investigators but from trumps own lawyers. >> if you moved them hoping to evade somehow the scrutiny of the department of justice, a federal grand jury or the archives, you are laying out a case for something illegal. >> the thing that surpri...

Evan, you know its interesting, paula, on the back of whats evan is talking about, venue, theres also who is going to represent him. as jake was indicating two of trumps attorneys resigning after the indictments unsealed. now hes looking for new attorneys that will represent him in florida. doesnt appear to be an easy snap your fingers and people are running to do it. what more do you know? >> thats exactly right. it is challenging for the former president to find people willing to represent him...

Charging dissemination as of now, so this fascinating moment where hes showing the documents around is really proof that he knew the documents were classified, less the notion that he was showing them to people. an important distinction to make in terms of the legal charges. i think what stands out here is your point, joy, over and over again, he lies to his lawyers. he pretends at one point after hes taken all the good stuff out of the storage room, and left stuff for evan corcoran to find, he ...

Usually indicates that theyre close to bringing charges against that person. >> very clearly seems to be moving in that direction. one question i had. our show team picked up what seemed to be a new defense last night from a former trump attorney when it comes to the documents. i want you to listen to it. >> yeah. >> the fact it has a classification marking on it, if it zshgs doesnt make it automatically some type of contraband. it has to be national defense information, one. two, were talking a...

The former president and possibly violating. and, so, the fact that things are copies, really just makes them new documents that the government wants to retrieve. if you go into a meeting with donald trump and he says things that are classified, and you take notes, that document suddenly becomes a record that needs to be returned to the national archives. guys? >> yeah. fascinating and so important, evan. thank you. >> true. >> joining us now to discuss, jennifer rogers, cnn legal analyst, forme...

>> bill: were waiting an update on a shooting after a high school graduation in virginia. richmond police will speak at the top of the hour. two people are dead after the gunman opened fire at the ceremony. one an 18-year-old student. another a 36-year-old man. they will be charged with two counts of second degree murder. so that from richmond. >> dana: some high school grads are getting right to work. majority of americans think a college education is -- dont think a college education is worth ...

Image of our calm, cool, collected, coifed colleague evan perez sprinting around the justice department trying to find these lawyers. >> if thats you running around looking goofy, youre so calm. we see the trump legal team behind you. thats really, really interesting, especially given the way the judge, how she ruled saying, look, you dont have attorney/client here. the special counsel can see this because of the crime fraud exception. well see what happens. thank you, evan. appreciate it. for...

Counsel investigators are evaluating that strongly suggests this is not motivated by a political bias. >> the scope is notable. this was obtained because they were biographers writing about mark meadows. >> a great point. based on our reporting, he knee he was -- and -- paula and ind katelyn, please stand by. evan, first help me understand here. he referred to a classified document on an audio recording. they looked for that document. they have not proud that document. do we know, or is there ...

Counsel. i think everybody in the justice department was aware of that date certain. stand by. we have new information regarding the former vice president. what do we know, boris? >> a major development in the other high-profile probe. the justice department closing the investigation into former vice president mike pence, deciding not to brings charge after classified records were -- and as evan pointed out, it comes as mike pence is expected to announce next week. katelyn helped to break this...

That i lied to, i am desperately, desperately sorry. but principally, i would like to apologise to him. because it may have been consensual, it may have been fully legal, but i shouldnt have allowed it to happen. and that was a grave, grave error on my part, and i know that because of that, and absolutely innocent person is being persecuted. i that, and absolutely innocent person is being persecuted.— is being persecuted. i want to take the oint is being persecuted. i want to take the point of...