feds. the democratic chairs of the house intelligence oversight committees want answers over what fallout could await after top-secret documents were found at trump s resort and are asking the director of national intelligence to provide an immediate damage assessment. let s bring in two former trump administration insiders former counterterrorism and covid adviser to mike pence olivia troye and former white house press secretary steph nye grisham. thank you both for being with us this evening. the thing i can t wrap my head around is why a president who notoriously paid little attention to his daily intelligence briefings as reported time and again while he was in office why would he hold on to this stuff and have it around mar-a-lago. you were his press secretary for a period of time. why does he suddenly care about top-secret materials? your guess is as good as mine and i ll leave it up to law enforcement and the investigation to come to that conclusion. there are many t
by the attorney. it s almost all done by the judges in the federal judicial system. my question is that that will be loosened up a bit in this particular case. but also i would like to say that, i think it s a little pessimistic to have to say we re going to rely on one juror to engage in jury nullification because i think the president has some real defensible issues here. this is a winnable case. i m not saying he would definitely win it or it s a slam dunk for him but there are some real issues here and i don t think he s going to have to rely on jury nullification necessarily. laura: i m going to get back to that in a moment but david, i want to play a mope from obama s sg earlier today. he s not president anymore. he doesn t get to, when you leave the presidency, take home documents as a souvenir. this is the people s information, that s why we have such a robust set of criminal rules to protect the mishandling of it. trump just spit on all of that
the oval office. he was cavalierly tweeting things. all of that was inexcusable. but that wasn t criminal, because he was the president. he had the power to do that. he is not president anymore. he doesn t get to, you know, when you leaf the presidency, take home documents as a souvenir or to take home documents because you re worried books might be written against you, or perhaps take home documents because you want to impress an investor or sell those documents. none of that is allowed for anyone, whether you re the president or anyone else who handles this information. this is the people s information. that s why we have such a robust set of criminal rules to protect against the mishandling of it. trump just spit on all of that, according to this indictment. we ll have a chance to argue that isn t right. but so far nothing i ve heard tells me that he has a viable defense. and nothing trump has said suggests that trump thinks trump has a viable defense. the conduct written and desc
documents starting in 2022. then recently on april, 6th used a government computer to search a database using the word leak once it was publicly revealed that someone was leaking classified documents. this is not just about taking home documents, people who who um um sign agreements to be able to receive classified documents acknowledge the importance to the national security of not disclosing those documents to share a was an i. t specialist for the air national guard whose job was to help maintain a network where top secret information was held, according to official u. s sources to share a is believed to be the leader of a small group of the social media platform discord, a site popular with video gamers, and where the classified doctor mintz had been posted. the leaked classified documents included a wide range of highly classified information, including eavesdropping on key
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