Page 44 - June 3rd News Today

Lawyers said to judge ketanji brown jackson, yes, we got a hold and everybody at the white house knows about it, apparently the white house didnt. we were worried about a bonfire at the rose garden. should have been worried about a u-haul in the back. so eight months after they first inquired they get 15 boxes back from mar-a-lago. and theyre stunned. theres classified information in there. the wheels begin to turn. february they reach out again. they ask the justice department to investigate. f...

There are regularment protocols. if you transferred classified information from one location to another, theres a special pouch that has a key that you have to put the documents in when you go from one place to another. this is not a situation where, oh, well just throw it in a basement. >> even how the documents themselves are transported matters? >> yes. >> current white house officials are seriously concerned that the material at mar-a-lago might jeopardize u.s. sources or intelligence gather...

January, so eight months after they first inquired they get 15 boxes back from mar-a-lago. and theyre stunned. theres classified information in there. the wheels begin to turn. february they reach out again. they ask the justice department to investigate. finally by june 3rd justice serves a subpoena on mar-a-lago and gets their first visual look at that storage unit in the basement. it doesnt even have a lock. >> one of the remarkable things, he mentioned the kim jong un love letters. maggie ha...

Its not theirs, its mine, several advisers say mr. trump told them. how many of those several advisers have already told the fbi that? when merrick garland approved the search warrant. how many of them had already told the fbi that? if that reporting is true, it means that there are several advisers who are witnesses to donald trumps confession. its not theirs, its mine. on june 3rd, own officials when officials the justice department department of justice national security division with donald ...

V violations of the espionage act, obstructing justice and criminal handling of federal documents. after months of back and forth with the former presidents team, in january the national archives and records administration, known as nara, retrieved 15 boxes of materials from mar-a-lago, releasing a statement saying some of the records it received were, quote, torn up by former president trump. according to a source familiar with what the archives discovered in the boxes, some of the materials we...

Significant because thats the kind of crime that really exacerbates the underlying crime of having these documents and, you know, at the department, when theyre going to consider whether they should charge the former president, the fact that there may be obstruction of justice and that is lying in addition to having these documents improperly at mar-a-lago, i think will weigh quite heavily as it has with other cases that they brought in the past, for instance against general petraeus. >> and chu...

Or is it just the fact theyre out of government custody? >> no. the latter would be the first charge, which is theft of government records. this obstruction charge makes it illegal to mutilate, conceal or withhold to obstruct a government investigation. it suggests at least the fbi has suspicions something like that happened. we know the president had a habit of ripping up documents. the way thats described it doesnt appear to have been malicious, more like negligence. in this case, it suggests ...

Why they did that, im not sure. this meeting was in response, we should note, to a subpoena they filed in may. yes, the trump folks have repeatedly said, we were in conversations, this was casual. there are conversations after subpoenas. its not always that a subpoena gets executed and its hostile. however, i think from the justice department perspective, this was a little more adv adversarial than i think the trump folks are making it. im not clear so something you raise, though, and there are ...

Provide some sort of temporary boost to the former president if this does continue to escalate the way it has and he claims that a lot of these documents he was trying to declassify. >> john brennan, i come to you, and i want to get you now just because we have you for the whole hour, but ive not heard you speak on this matter and maybe you have somewhere, but the whole thing, i think you may have been off last week, damn you. lets put up the time line of the investigation just to remind people ...

Declassification to be viewed as a legal finality ore certainty, but also whether h the president could have had a good faith reason to believe that there was declassification. all of that were going to have to work out if the department of justice goes forward, that we have the issue of the timeline. the national archives and records administration, their letter of thanks for all the cooperation of the trump team at morila go from february of this year.r. and then i think. a very a important da...