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Because his campaign strategy and legal defense are so intertwined. but theres another benefit from an evidence standpoint, its very helpful to them, these initial charges. great jury appeal. they have the actual document now that he was waving around to match up with the audiotape. and it allows them to more easily get that audiotape into evidence because its part of the actual act being charged. that plus the consciousness of guilt with trying to get the servers deleted, that all add up to a l...

Inequitable treatment of taxpayers. like we stated before, the signed prosecutor, which included doj tax attorneys, all agreed to recommend the approval for the felony and misdemeanor charges they called them slam dunk charges. >> in your op-ed, you characterized the dojs behavior as obstruction. heres my question. do you think that there was concerted action, activity here by individuals in doj, maybe in the irs, concerted activity not to pursue the case aggressively, or more benignly perhaps, ...

War plan he showed to others. theres an audio tape of him discussing it. donald trump said there was no document. it turns out there was. doj charged that. there were also two new object construction of justice counts that relate to this not just to move the boxes around. that was already charged. but now its charging obstruction on top of obstruction because the allegation is they tried to delete the internal surveillance video footage. so there is some new problems for donald trump beyond the ...

Boxes, hiding boxes, and now the additional information of once trump and his lawyers were advised that the fbi was preparing a subpoena to capture the videos, the videotapes of what was going on there, he added another person to the mix and instructed them, allegedly, under this indictment, that reads so clearly and so damningly, instructed them to embrace the server. erase the video surveillance. obstruction. the cover-up, we have heard this over and over again, the cover-up is often worse tha...

Zeigler, one of the agents who blew the whistle on the handling of this case. he published this opinion piece titled "a special counsel for hunter biden." thank you so much for being here. what is it that the tax manual required that was not done in this case? >> i appreciate you so much for having me. so in the tax manual, i pointed this out, that if you have a felony charge, if you have the evidence for the felony, and you also have the evidence for the misdemeanor, its departmental policy tha...

>> authorities say that 27 year old tristan -- getting handcuffed. he gave faces charges including safe cracking. well, that wraps it up for this hour, thank you so much for being with, us im zinhle essamuah you can watch me every day, 2 to 4 pm, weekdays on nbc news. now we have you stream live. symone starts right now. greetings everyone, we are watching symone. donald trump hit with new charges of obstruction and -- classified documents, including damning details of this alleged conspiracy to...

Falsely representing all documents called for by the grandeur isa, pina have been produced. and attempting to delete security footage, at the mar-a-lago club. based on your, assessment if you had to draft a memo, about whether they should pursue obstruction, what is your assessment of this, case for obstruction of justice? >> yes, so obviously you have to have the evidence, to get all of those allegations into court. when you bring the case. but just on law this is clearly a speaking indictment,...

Hello, again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. im fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour with the mounting legal troubles for former president donald trump. the special counsel is charging trump with three new counts in the classified documents investigation. those charges include one additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two additional counts of obstruction. prosecutors say trump, along with two employees, walt nauta and mar-a-lago property manage...

Obstructive conduct, notwithstanding the highly sensitive nature of all of the documents involved. it was the obstruction of the investigation that i think really forced the justice department and the special counsels hand in having to bring this case. so the additional obstruction charges just demonstrate in really clear detail, according to the superseding indictment, the length that the former president went to pressure and to communicate with those around him to try to prevent the justice de...

The coverup. if this goes to impeachment hearing, theyre going to look into obstruction of justice and if the delaware prosecutor is in on the obstruction, thats going to be a problem. so he tried to get a little distance from this thing. and the judge is right -- the judge comes out with this gun charge and its a felony gun charge and just expunged for nothing. she said this has never happened before and youre not giving me any discretion. once you sign this deal, i cant even decide whether i l...