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Interest of the republic? >> there was investigation into if there was collusion between the trump campaign and the russians to interfere to the advantage of trump. >> the special counsel did not find that the trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with the russian government in these efforts. >> the second part of the investigation was if there had been obstruction of justice. whether trump had tried to interfere with the mueller investigation. >> special counsel s...

Russell, here is the piece of paper. so, i think you cant compare a personal document that remains a personal documents, thats what the tapes in the sock drawer were. its ironic that the clintons also had a cat named socks. the private servers that hillary clinton used were deemed to not have been intentional, nothing was marked classified, there was no reason for her to have known that they were classified, and they were careful in discussing them to make sure that nothing was revealed. thats h...

I just wish that all of those people who are -- on msnbc, would hear about the tape. would hear about the indictment, what repeat the indictment, would see the pictures that youre showing right now of how he stored these randomly and carelessly. and would substitute his name with hillary clintons name, you know that they would think that there was a crime. especially if it was her name, not his. so they have to start believing facts. >> i want to say to your point, it is so important. we keep fo...

Again, there is no intent. it wasnt a willful retention. it wasnt obstruction of justice, which is what is involved here. the evidence of obstruction is overwhelming. its very clearly laid out, and i just wish that all of those people who are -- not listening to us on msnbc, would hear about the tape. would hear about the indictment, what repeat the indictment, would see the pictures that youre showing right now of how he stored these randomly and carelessly. and would substitute his name with h...

Met the moment. >> kinzinger and cheney were the only republicans on the house select committee to investigate the attack on january 6th. theyve become mariahs in a party that was once seen as its future. >> we cannot survive on a party existing on the personality of one man. >> the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack had a herculean task set before it. its staff conducted 1,000 interviews, filmed hundreds of taped depositions and collected more than 140,000 documents, and fin...

Ayman please, dont ask me. they are all both equally guilty and terrible. >> thats why we love this subject. its a tough choice every week. >> i have not voting on this one. i can tell you this. this is a form of obstruction of politicizing the justice department. they are really attacking military families, more than 80,000 women who are service members, who dont have a choice as to where they are stationed. they dont have access to reproductive health care. this is an attack on the women. and ...

Deemed to not have been intentional, nothing was marked classified, there was no reason for her to have known that they were classified, and they were careful in discussing them to make sure that nothing was revealed. thats how it is. the documents that are in the possession, were in the garage of the former vice president, are also very different. again, there is no intent. it wasnt a willful retention. it wasnt obstruction of justice, which is what is involved here. the evidence of obstruction...

Especially if it was her name, not his. so they have to start believing facts. >> i want to say to your point, it is so important. we keep forgetting, or certainly the people who want to ignore the facts keep forgetting, the fbi actually asked them to hand the documents over. its not that he had, them the charges were retention and obstruction of justice because they said to him, look, give the documents back. as mike pence did, hes not being charged when they told him he had classified document...

Archives was the first time that they became aware that there were classified documents involved. they were pursuing just presidential records. and then within four months of trump giving -- surrendering to them classified documents when they opened the boxes and were surprised that he evened a classified documents, within four months, mar-a-lago was raided. so it wasnt this entire time, but it certainly was an unacceptable time. >> but it is in the view of the government obstruction. heres your...

Efforts to return these documents, even after receiving a federal subpoena. take a listen to bill barr again describing the process. >> they talked to him for almost a year to try to get those documents and he jerked them around. they finally went to a subpoena and what did he do? according to the government, he land lied and obstructed that subpoena. so they acted in a very patient way and what they were met with, according to the government and the indictment, very egregious obstruction. >> a ...