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They gave him every opportunity to return those documents. they acted with restraint. very deferential with him and very patient. they talk to him for almost a year to get those documents and he jerked them around. they finally went to a subpoena what did he do, according to the government, he lied and obstructed that subpoena. and then, they did a search and they found a lot more documents. i dont even think they are short now whether they have everything. so, they acted in a very patient way a...

March 28th. again i think this was a hedge against whatever might happen in that case about improper venues. >> you know, senator jones, again, according to the indictment, at one point, trump suggested his attorneys not respond to the subpoenas saying they did not want anyone looking through what he referred to as his boxes, picking quote, wouldnt it better if we just told them we dont have anything here? this came from trumps own lawyer. also, further down in the indictment, there is a charact...

Earlier, my colleague sumi somaskanda spoke to leigh ann caldwell, anchor for the washington post live. back to this current indictment. what stood out to you about these 37 counts? the first thing that _ you about these 37 counts? tue: first thing that stood you about these 37 counts? tte: first thing that stood out was the fact that there were actually 37 counts. that is a lot of counts. there was reporting last night that it would be seven counts and reporting before that talked about obstruc...

Were so sloppily maintained at mar—a—lago but what is really going to be the driver of this case is more the obstruction in this narrative that unlike the case ofjoe biden and mike pence, who were cooperative, donald trump had a long time to set the record straight here. he had months to return these documents to the national archives, then he was faced with a subpoena, he still did not comply, and then it took the fbi to get these documents back, and i think thats whats going to be the focu...

Subpoena from the federal government demanding that he return these documents. hes trying to get evan corcoran to lie to the fbi, according to prosecutors. hes trying to say to him, why cant you just pretend like none of this happened and also just take it back to your hotel room and pick out the classified documents and pretend done of those are there. >> what more can you tell us about this walt nauta, the former presidents aide, who was also indicted today? >> right. he is facing six counts f...

Sloppily maintained at mara largo. _ sloppily maintained at mara largo, but what is really going to he — largo, but what is really going to he the — largo, but what is really going to be the driver of this case is more _ to be the driver of this case is more the obstruction in this narrative _ is more the obstruction in this narrative that unlike the case ofjoe — narrative that unlike the case ofjoe biden and mike pence, who— ofjoe biden and mike pence, who were cooperative, donald trump...

President says things like this. well, look, isnt it better if there are no documents? this is after they get a subpoena from the federal government demanding that he return these documents. hes trying to get evan corcoran to lie to the fbi, according to prosecutors. hes trying to say to him, why cant you just pretend like none of this happened and also just take it back to your hotel room and pick out the classified documents and pretend done of those are there. >> what more can you tell us abo...

Have been shocked too at how easy this potentially was. >> words that arent used explicitly in the indictment but sort of lurk behind the scenes are that the defendant knew information that could reasonably be expected to hurt or harm the defense interests of the united states, thats a paraphrase of it a little bit. by running through and identifying the nature of the documents and also by identifying how they were spilled and mishandled in the way that john talks about, you really see how the i...

On the evidence they have and the obstruction charges and conspiracy charges related to obstruction. the trial itself will be extensive and complicated, and it gets in a little bit into the question of timing that katelyn was talking about the last interview, national security cases dont proceed quickly, even if the special counsel is asking for a speedy trial, 30 documents that are classified documents in reference in the indictment alone, this child does right trial will include classified inf...

It could recently be expected to hurt or harm the defense interests of the united states, a paraphrase, by running through and identifying the nature the documents and how they were spilled in the way that john talks about, you really see how the indictment subtracts language of federal law it makes that is not just obstruction but can also be used to harm america. >> the sum that what was in there and information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of the u.s. and foreign countries, and ...