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A funny indictment. >> i dont care about that. indict a bologna sandwich. >> reporter:s loyalists sherry deep sense of distrust against perceived opponents of trump including the department of justice, the fbi and the press. they routinely brought up joe biden combines pet -- mike pence and hillary clinton, all had sensitive materials in their position while out of public office. one big difference, trump and his aide, walt not to, faced nearly half a dozen charges related to obstruction and con...

>> comey at the time did say, some marked e-mails classified were found on the server, he said there were more than some there are a lot. and he goes on: >> clinton claims she turned over all work related e-mails despite this. the questions of perjury and obstruction of justice were not addressed. and in statement comeyy lawyers said they delighted all e-mails. he added:

Weekend was insisting over and over again precisely about what about hillary clinton, what about biden, what about my own former vice president? >> yeah, its not the possession of the documents that interests prosecutors. its the refusal to give them back. its the obstruction. and thats why i think its easily explainable to the american people. its the obstruction. you could put it on a bumper sticker. >> vaughn hillyard, garrett haake, thank you, david if youd stay with us, youre going to stay ...

Transcripts, the recordings? i mean, what makes this indictment so damning as many have said? >> i think in my mind i dont really understand the conclusion that bill barr comes to that its incredibly damning. i think there are aspects that are more damning than others but a lot of this hinges on what the judge determines is the state of the law with regard to the status of these documents. i think i have not yet heard how this case is legally distinct from the clinton case or the biden case. whe...

On 37 criminal counts related to his handling of classified documents, dissemination of those documents, retention, and obstruction. randi kaye is "outfront" live in florida. what is trump doing on the eve of this court appearance, which any lawyer will tell you should now be the single most important thing in his life? >> reporter: absolutely. erin, he arrived here at his resort in doral, florida, about 3:30 this afternoon or so. he went upstairs with his son and his team of lawyers, and the re...

Bill barr is right about this one. the indictment shows that donald trump was involved in every step of this. he helped pack the boxes. he helped store the boxes. he helped hide the boxes not just from the government but from his own lawyer. he disseminated information from within the boxes, and he trade to get people to lie for him. youre talking about violations of the espionage act, which will get you up to ten years per count, obstruction, which can get you up to 20 years per count, and lyin...

Evan corcorans notes. he was meticulous with his notes under the legal doctrine of cya because he didnt want to be charged himself for the obstruction. those notes are a treasure-trove for jack smith. >> i thank you both very much for being with us this morning. up next, the unbelievable miracle rescue out of the colombian jungle. how four children including a baby less than a year old survived alone for 40 days in the amazon after a plane crash. were going to get a live report from bogota. ...

Was a u.s. senator, thats against the law. >> jason: absolutely against thellow, you are not allowed to take one document, joe biden took uncounted documents. why didnt they go in guns ablazing. >> harris: dont we know? i think we do. kennedy. kennedy there are differences here between hillary clinton. anyone seeking presidency, if they mishandle documents, they should be prosecuted, should be equal of the law. you are right. the differentiation are the conspiracy and obstruction charges and tho...

Lawyers leading investigators to key information. you had the manhattan indictment with michael cohen. now you have evidence ran corcoran. you say corcoran was probably the source of the search warrant after he realized he was being played by trump. thats a theory. we dont know that as fact right now. >> well, i think im right because theres no other way -- first of all, to put that into a search warrant, the probable cause for this obstruction had to come from an inside wednesday who laid it ou...

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 to barr and deputy ...