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And was ready to give trumps team some access to some material there. and, so, what happened at that moment in time was that the justice department investigation was placed on hold. and that was because of her orders. an appeals court later came in and said she had gotten the law wrong, that essentially that they believed she had given something to a former president of the united states that no other criminal defendant would get to do, overturned what she did there, and then let that investigat...

Open and shut obstruction case. you said in terms of heading to prison time and being convicted, hes a, quote, dead man. now youve read it, every page of the indictment, all these details. just how much trouble do you think trump is? >> i think he is in an enormous amount of trouble. i think that this indictment is about as carefully structured and evidentiarily supported as any indictment in history. there isnt a single word or phrase or allegation for which they dont have a document or a witne...

The election, but how far before the election, that is really a significant thing that she will get to be able to do. back to you. erin? >> katelyn, thank you very much, and everyone whos back with me. this came out today, and you read it and it was -- i mean, its well written, it tells a stories, didnt need, to i know, but it tells a story. is this the kind of open and shut hes dead, as ty cobb, the former white house lawyer described trump in this case, is that what this is? >> i thought actua...

Evan corcoran to lie and take a bullet, essentially, for the former president to try to conceal these documents. wolf? >> evan, thank you very much. i want to go right now to katelyn polantz, shes joining us from miami. as weve been reporting, the judge assigned to this case, at least right now, is a rather controversial judge. >> reporter: well, she has become somewhat controversial, because she has seen a part of this case before. this is judge aileen cannon. she is a trump appointee, has only...

Clinton and even james comey july 2016 press conference when he laid out all the classified top secret materials she had, the same we have four separate locations where they found a ton of classified materials related to joe biden so my assumption it will be a process crime. now if they go after obstruction case okay thats fine. how do they get away from the comparison that hillary clinton deleted 33,000 emails, had devices that might have had them on them destroyed with hammers and sim cards re...

Washington. but how does jack smith -- how does this case end up in one jurisdiction or the other if there is a trial? >> so, this is a complicated legal issue. because the law in florida and the law in d.c., those two federal jurisdictions, is different. in florida, you could bring the obstruction case either where the acts of suction or committed, or where the investigation is that is being obstructed, namely an investigation in d.c.. either of those would be fine. but if you were to go to d.c...

Florida. and so they might be thinking about charging just the obstruction part in florida and the classified document kind of substantive case in d.c. or charging the whole thing down in florida where most of the conduct took place. >> so we could see charges in both of these, you think? >> you could. its unlikely because that would then split the prosecutorial team, its not very efficient as far as resources go. but theres no legal reason why they couldnt try the substantive case on the docume...

Donald trumps guilt. >> and i hear what you are saying about the overwhelming evidence that we have thus far, i would assume things like pool drainage would further buttress an obstruction case of that is indeed what jack smith is pursuing, but if we could, could we discuss mark meadows for a minute? because this fellow has been like the white rabbit in alison wonderland, no one has known where he is that. everyone wants to chase him and find out what he has. if he has testified in front of a fe...

>> and i -- i hear what youre saying about the overwhelming evidence we have thus far. i would assume that things like pool drainage would further buttress an obstruction case if thats indeed what jack smith is pursuing, but if we could could we discuss mark meadows for a minute, because this fellow has been like the white rabbit in alice in wonderland. if he has testified in front of a federal grand jury presumably he would be testifying about things hed be trying to shield using the claim of e...

I think the most compelling option is to indict the obstruction case and use the evidence with regard to the possession of the documents as motive, evidence so you dont have the burden of charging that. and theres also the possibility of charging the january 6th case or using meadows testimony to flush out a report on that. >> all right, ty, thank you very much. i appreciate your perspective on those breaking developments tonight. lets go now to ryan goodman, former special counsel at the defens...