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Document is mine, this document is not. >> its tough to try to figure out why he had these specific documents. mark, i know that he also had some papers that are unusual. >> roger stone, for instance, whose sentence he commuted, he had the original commutation of the sentence there. guess who is puzzled by that? roger stone. when you ask him, why did he have the commutation original document, stone has no idea. theres a lot of weird behavior and mysteries as to exactly why did donald trump do it...

Could be uncovered, but also nervous about the impact it may have on this falls midterms, particularly if this, if trump decides that in order to counteract this, he needs to declare his candidacy for president, a lot of gop members that i speak to say that would be the worst thing that it could be for the party, trump would be a distraction and shift the focus from what they want to talk about, things like inflation, president bidens record, et cetera. >> so how we got here, mark, your reportin...

And i think thats what merrick garland and his team is going over and looking at now. thats what you saw members of the senate judiciary looking at in terms of wanting to see the documents to understand just how grave of an issue was this? on its face, theres no question, hes broken the law. the issue is, merrick garland has to decide, again, balancing the equities in terms of the prejudice that it creates, what do i want to do about this? and that is more of a political question than it is a le...

Federal offenses that are listed in the search warrant, and as said why is trump keeping these materials? what has he already done wand trump its always the question of criminal intent? this looks evidence. trump knew the fed wanted these materials and he knowingly and willfully refused to give the government back some of its most sensitive information. we know that he got this polite request from the national archives. when that didnt work they ratcheted up the pressure with the grand jury subp...

Litigated and discussed more and more. >> whats supposed to happen with presidential documents, and then theres a separate issue of top secret and secret documents. but lets talk about that. once a president leaves office, he has a lot of documents that have been produced during his administration, but theres a difference there. >> mark is exactly right. there are two issues here. there is the issue of whether something is top secret or classified in some way and what youre supposed to do with i...

You know, i think that were going to have to see what the full scope of the damage is. >> mark, at the center of this is trumps handling of classified information. what have we learned about how he dealt with this material when he was president and then after, the final days of his presidency? >> well, what weve learned is that he approached classified information the way he approached most norms and rules, he did basically whatever the hell he wanted. there were times he had copies of speeches ...

For themselves. of course, all of this is unfolding on the eve of more huge primary races, where allegiance to donald trump is, again, a driving factor. in wyoming, where liz cheney is trying to hold on to her job, and in alaska, where sarah palin is trying for a political comeback. weve got so much to talk about. i want to bring in nbc justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian. mark caputo is an nbc political reporter. jonathan lemire is host of "way too early" on msnbc, and charles ...

They are contemplating a prosecution. i think that at this point trump is clearly a subject of the federal grand jury investigation relating to january 6th. hes still a few steps away from being a target. >> explain to the viewers the difference between a subject and a target. >> so, certainly rudy giuliani learned this the hard way today when he became a target of an investigation in georgia. a target means that you are likely to be prosecuted, that prosecution may not be imminent but the prose...

Country. it is a door donald trump opened to manipulate americans to abandon their principles, to sacrifice their freedom, to justify violence, to ignore the rulings of our courts and the rule of law. >> a new university of wyoming poll shows cheney trailing her primary opponent by nearly 30 points. >> we are following a burst of activity in the closely watched pennsylvania senate race between lieutenant governor john fetterman and celebrity tv doctor mehmet oz. fetterman is set to hold his firs...

Very, often in my experience, im sure this is true for barr been for frank as well. defendants have a lot of hubris. and you know, to take paul manafort, for instance. many years i think the crimes were committed, we did a search of his, home and we found tons of documents that were incriminating, that he had not gotten rid of. so, defendants dont always act in a way that is in their best interest, in terms of cleaning up the crime scene. >> mark, tonight, following this fbi search, former presi...