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Documents we found. there were 38 documents. thats it. that ended up being he very wrong wrong because a couple months later theres a search warrant and the fbi finds over a hundred more documents. that certification is the fulcrum of the obstruction charges and the theory is donald trump and walt nauta intentionally misled their lawyers knowing that lawyers would in turn intentionally mislead the fbi and the grand jury. just that walt nauta, the second guy here, hes not charged with the 31 docu...

That these documents must be given very high protection. i would say its an impressive set of pages. certainly, i dont think any colleagues after reading their should be going out and saying this is the greatest witch hunt of all-time when this is based on articulate facts that have been set forth by the grand jury and in the possession of the department of justice and fbi. >> congressman, its ayman herrick. i just joined your expertise as a constitutional lawyer. i think a lot of people are wat...

Case going to be separate trial? in a criminal case, even a civil case, excuse me, you are going to work back from that trial gate. it is going to be a trial date set up. all the work has to be done leading up to that particular date. everyones going to see, is it going to be in 2023? we are still in june. there is still six months left of this year. six months is a long time, even in federal court to be able to try a case. we know that special counsel, jack smith, has made it very clear. he int...

♪ i did it my way! ♪ >> i never thought i would see a criminal case that made richard nixon look like a choir boy. watergate was the worst thing that happened to the presidency in our history. this is so much worse. he was trying to sell the government out, probably to foreign governments, or at

In this instance, let me be very clear so that our berries understand, you know, trump could tee up as many lawyers as he wants. he can say this one is next, this one is the one that im going to pluck out of obscurity. not all judges, even aileen cannon, will be able to sit there and actually humor him for. that it becomes explicitly clear that is purposes for delight. theyre trying to prejudice this case involves prosecution. a judge could say, now i, dont care. you arent able to do this. or, y...

Impeachment. im just wondering, given all the things youve seen, all of the things you know that you cant tell us that you know, i have a love to get your reaction, not only to what you read in the indictment, but to the pictures. how those documents were stored. where they were stored. what was your reaction? >> well, one of the things that blew my mind, jonathan, was my republican colleagues who immediately pointed themselves, not just defense council, which was predictable and not, but judge ...

Against the president on really straightforward set of facts. they lay out the law really clearly. a document is confidential if it is unauthorized disclosure could do damage to the united states. it is secret pick in d.c. -- serious damage to the net states. as top secret if i can do grave damage the united states. there was dozens of those documents floating around in the ball rooms and the bathrooms and the open areas of mar-a-lago where tens of thousands of guests were traipsing through a di...

Upcoming hearing where the parties are going to advise the court how much time or when they think this is going to take to be able to get this case done. its no rocket science, right? theres no magic to this. judge has an audit of cases. she is a calendar friend of hers. she has a clerk, a judicial system. these people can tell her she can say, this is when i want to go to trial in this case. >> let me ask you really quick about his lawyers that were and suddenly were not. he added lawyers as of...

Colleagues alicica menendez, jonathan capehart, ayman mohyeldin, symone sanders-townsend, and with us from miami, katie phang. the twice impeached, and now twice indicted donald trump has become the first ex president to face criminal charges from the federal government. over the next two hours, my colleagues and i, along with some special guests, are going to break down the justice departments case against the former commander-in-chief. a case that we saw for the first time just yesterday. when...

That indictment. >> i think when youre looking at this right now, the thing that strikes me the most to your point is how much the fbi and the doj went out of their way to try and recover these boxes. and what is the most telling for me in the indictment, is the word retention. its not necessarily about possession. >> they asked for it back. if they had given them back, there might have been a different outcome. >> exactly. i think you have parallel tracks with what happened with mike pence and ...