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Material is now? we dont know. perhaps, they are sitting under a pile of five irons in bedminster or lodged between couch cushions in a trump tower penthouse summer. this comes as it becomes increasingly apparent that the department of justice and its prosecutors are honing in on and obstruction case. the comingling of trumps personal effects with classified materials is clear relevant evidence of the statutory offenses under investigation. mainly obstruction here. prosecutors are arguing that i...

Careful about what they do next, particularly the two there at the search for spoke to the fbi agents, because they may well be witnesses or even possibly codefendants, if they dont watch their piece and accuses are cooperating with the government. >> carol, yesterday, on this network, former fbi agent peter strzok weighed in on the search. i want to play for you and our viewers his remarks, and then i will get your thoughts to them. listen. >> the way increasingly i think about this is not so m...

Compelling argument. >> in a fraud case, or an obstruction case it all turns on the defendants state of mind. did the defendant have the intent to commit fraud? can you pierces mind to know what his attempt was? we all know trump fired mother or but did he do it for a corpus or not? there have been a lot of debates on this program and elsewhere trying to figure out proof of trumps state of mind and in for, but we dont have a magic telescope. drug case is very simple, if you have an ounce of hero...

And many dimensions. expanse, human life, our own national security policies. >> please, i mean theres a potential disaster and all this. but what would prosecutors be looking to show by pointing to the locations of these documents? lie with the intermingling of personal items and classified materials -- by with that factor into the investigation? >> great question. thats why they seized the passports. where do you keep the passport and things in your desk? those are things that you have and you...

Including some pretty unsavory characters. so the president has seemed not to surround himself with the bright and brightest when it comes to the legal team and seem to be getting more in trouble up through the day. walk us through how this could impact the legal case and which of the formers presidents attorneys maybe all of them may be in legal hot water themselves. >> this is why the former president needed a guy like john sale, because he is an experienced criminal defense lawyer and make ad...

Affidavit released in more detail. because they are still conducting that investigation. >> what do you think the prospects really are that this could, when all things are said and done, actually result in criminal liability, either for the former president or other people arouns substantial likelihood that him and people exposure, both on the obstruction case, and on the mishandling of classified information. that does not mean that we are going to see the former president go to jail. there is ...

Of the investigation, and thats why the justice department was asking not to have this affidavit released in more detail because they are still conducting that investigation. >> what do you think the prospects are that this could, when all things are said and done, actually result in a criminal liability either for the former president or other people around him? >> i think theres a substantial likelihood that him and people around him have criminal exposure both on the obstruction case and on t...

Additional documents that contain classified national defense information or that our presidential records subject to retention requirements currently remain at mar-a-lago. they go onto say, quote, theres also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at mar-a-lago, so sort of two fold there. this stuff about the classified information and then the potential obstruction. i will tell you that in this unsealed affidavit almost everything about the obstruction case was re...

Former presidents legal team. that helps bolster their obstruction case and argument, which is why -- one of the reasons why they executed the search warrant to begin with. also, anything i think shows when they might have had any interviews or conversations that prompted the execution of this search warrant. we had actually reported that the fbi was still conducting interviews and had some lined up in these recent coming weeks that they ended up cancelling because they needed to get in there an...

But seeming to want to know, did former president trump do something, you know, wrong that could be charged and convicted, and its that second question that really might have the long-term bearing on how the public interprets whats happening right now. >> harry, let me ask you about the barr memo released. >> yeah. >> explaining why he decided not to charge former president trump with obstructing the russia probe. he wrote in the memo in every obstruction case, the corrupt acts were undertaken t...