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That indictment. >> i think when youre looking at this right now, the thing that strikes me the most to your point is how much the fbi and the doj went out of their way to try and recover these boxes. and what is the most telling for me in the indictment, is the word retention. its not necessarily about possession. >> they asked for it back. if they had given them back, there might have been a different outcome. >> exactly. i think you have parallel tracks with what happened with mike pence and ...

Makes sense to be able to release this type of indictment from special counsel, jack smith. the american public needed to know the extent, and the depth, that the obstruction took place by donald trump. the efforts that were taken by him to ensure that he was going to be able to keep documents and materials, he knew. thats the important factor there. right, ali? he knew he wasnt supposed to keep them. its in audiotapes. it did messaging. its in communications with his lawyers. which footnote, is...

This is taking place at a moment of plummeting can finance in the u.s. supreme court and the judicial system because justices like clarence thomas, not him exclusively, but there are several others who have been engaged in highly suspect kinds of actions that call their objectivity and neutrality into question. now, we have this aileen cannon, a judge who is appointed by donald trump. that alone doesnt make her suspect, but she was appointed by trump and proceeded to render a whole set of extrem...

Party where they were once seen as its future. >> we cannot survive as 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 members and staff conducted more than 1,000 interviews, filmed hundreds of taped depositions, and collected more than 140,000 documents. and finally, the week of december 19th, the committee showed us its full hand. >> leading this hour, the january 6th committee referring donal...

♪ welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, around the worm, im kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." i want to get back to the top stories. donald trump is campaigning for president and as usual, says he has no intention of gift quitting the race in face of his federal indictment in front of a crowd in north carolina, the candidate dismissed the indictment as a hit by crazy people. and 37 counts of espionage and multiple counts of obstruction. its scheduled ...

He, according to the indictment, not only obstructed it, orchestrated the obstruction for his codefendant. by having them conceal the documents. not cooperating, telling his lawyer not to cooperate. in doing so, the process in how he retained these documents is what discharge is about. we shouldve cited. that people are saying, he had these boxes, hes allowed to have these boxes. its not about the fact that he got the boxes. its that he held on to these boxes, even when they told him turn the da...

Obstruction and the indictment unsealed on friday is detailed and stark, accusing trump of illegally keeping highly classified government documents on americas nuclear secrets and military vulnerabilities among others in unsecured areas of his resort and conspiring with an aide who was also charged to hide some of those boxes from his own lawyers to prevent them from fully complying with a federal subpoena. here with me is the chairman of the house judiciary committee, jim jordan. thank you for ...

Once again in uncharted waters f. this weekend a defiant donald trump preparing to meet in court this time on tuesday in miami where the former president will face 37 federal count over mishandling classified documents and obstructing an investigation after he left office. at campaign events on saturday trump lashed out at the justice department and predicted the charges would only help his standing as the gop front-runner. >> the baseless indictment of me by the biden administrations weaponized...

Navy vs. eagan a 1988 case. i dont know how many more times i can say it. if he wants to store material in a box in a bathroom, in a box on the stage, he can do that. that is just what the law and the standard is. >> thats not -- >> again, i think this underscores how political this whole thing is. jack smith -- you know how political it is when they selected jack smith as special counsel? i actually sat in a deposition with jack smith. we deposed him on may 29th, 2014, because he was looking to...

Emphasize the reason why it makes sense to be able to release this type of indictment from special counsel, jack smith. the american public needed to know the extent, and the depth, that the obstruction took place by donald trump. the efforts that were taken by him to ensure that he was going to be able to keep documents and materials, he knew. thats the important factor there. right, ali? he knew he wasnt supposed to keep them. its in audiotapes. it did messaging. its in communications with his...