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Going on on this truly historic day. and our analysts here in washington, and gloria, let me start with you, and what we are seeing a historic divide emerge among the republicans themselves with the indictment against trump. >> it is not just a division, but it is a chasm between the weaponization of justice, and then we hear that justice is not carried out equally, but what we are not hearing about from the republicans is details of what actually happened here in this case, and the questions of...

>> im not a trump fan. i want to win. and if we nominate trump, were going to lose. he hasnt won anything since 2016. i used to have these same documents myself as speaker of the house. so i think this goes beyond just some petty thing. now my guess is trump will play this politically pretty well and make this weaponization argument and make this about joe bidens justice department and thats going to have some political saliency. >> lets just start there. lets chew on that a little bit. then i w...

Probably not well, sandra. its also language that i think anybody who has known this president or covered donald trump for years will find sort of very much in keeping with what we are used to hearing from him. he likes -- hes all in defiant mode. hes saying these are mine, this is my stuff, im allowed to keep it because of the presidential records act. there are tons of legal challenges to that. there are those in the constitutional law camp that believe he has the right to keep these. the ques...

Evan? >> that is right, jake. this is something that we anticipated judge has said that the former president is not allowed to talk to witnesses. and again, that is something that we know was on the mind of the justice department. it was not clear if they were going to raise it at the hearing today, and we expected it, and that is what the junl has said for now, no contact with potential witnesses in this case. of course, we know that the former president is being charged with obstruction, and t...

Is not able to have a fair opportunity to be heard, and that is part of what the basis of the core allegations of obstruction are, and if the notion of you have precluded a federal grand jury from being able to investigate a case, and if what you would like is due process, and you would like a kind of investigation, then you cannot do what you do to obstruct that kind of thing from happening, and so there is a different bucket to put it in, and of course, the classification, and the withhold, bu...

Make sure that they try to take. >> and obviously a fan of cnn behind evan perez. elie honig, your response, and do you think that trump is going to abide by this obstruction in the case against him seemingly that trump is close to him? >> i wont vouch for that, but there is no contact of the charged defendant in the cases, and largely to protect the witnesses to be intimidated and the collateral effect of the defendant, because if you are not talking to the witnesses, perhaps inadvertently or t...

Doj provides in this speaking indictment that really tells the story of how much jeopardy the former president faces. when you think about people who have declined to condemn the former presidents conduct, who do not see a difference between joe biden and mike pence and donald trump, its because they dont want to see the difference. its in plain writing for everyone to see at this point, the level of obstruction is just out of bounds. you know, prosecutors encounter obstruction in cases where pe...

Obstruction, conspiracy, and dissemination. even without evan corcoran. >> oh, right, but the governments not going to take them out of it. theyre going to want to keep him in it. theres going to be huge fights about that that are going to take time. we dont want to rush. why do we want to rush someone whos not ready? we want to be able to give defendants time to prepare. >> all right. all of you, thank you. please stay with me. just ahead, more on how the trump-appointed judge overseeing the ...

In these efforts." the second part of the investigation was whether or not there had been an obstruction of justice, whether trump had tried to interfere with the mueller investigation. [major] the special counsel said, "while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him" there were more than 10 instances that the mueller prosecutors found of donald trump actively seeking as president to shut down their investigation. [major] mueller left it ...

Prevailing law. federal officials, president is the president. to establish specificity and memorialization for future handling, but extent of a presidents legal authority to declass materials, without those formalities has yet to be challenged in court, we have a rogue prosecutor and rogue attorney general said well challenge it in court, were indicting you. is that the way, ladies and gentlemen were supposed to figure it out, even if you believe there some conflict or confusion, i dont think s...