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Youre right, theres another set of allegations here and charges that deal with lying to the federal government, to the investors, it obstructing the investigation into these records and, yeah, they could be potentially serious and theyre stand-alone charges and this goes to the judgment of prosecutors, why did all of this occur and it seems to be because they targeted president trump in a way they havent targeted other people for these kinds of documents and that put president trump in these kin...

Moment of obstruction that is in charge. -- as a coconspirator in that obstruction effort. we also knew about the tape that cnn first reported, where trump is heard actively disseminating national defense information to people who are not authorized to hear about it during a meeting in bedminster. but actually, the most serious point in this indictment was not previously known. i think the most serious incident was when trump was showing the map, the classified map to a staffer at his action com...

Because ultimately these are cowards, they are cowards. and he is a big trump hater, openly he is a trump hayter and his wife is even more of a trump hater, i wish her a lot of luck, but should he is a bad trump hater and you shouldnt put people like that in. they look at biden and they look at mike pence, he had classified documents, no problem. they look at biden, he has so many classified documents they dont know what to do and he is trying to prevent them from seeing it, that his obstruction...

Hes done things that president trump dreamed of at the national level and he understands where to go after this corruption and where to diffuse the political bomb, if you will. jacqui: nathan, one thing id ask you, this is not alvin bragg bringing this case and its the doj and the indictment was full of examples of what theyve laid out to be obstruction and conspiracy. so, its not just the possession and classification issues that saw former vice-president mike pence, you know, get out of jail f...

I would expect with the obstruction we would be looking at high single digits. the judge to determine his sentence is aileen cannon. >> thank you both so much. coming up, ted kizinski is ted. well look at how the fbi cracked that case. well take you live to miami where security is ramping up ahead of the presidents court appearance tuesday. then the incredible story of four kids found alive after four days in the amazon jungle. how they did it coming up on cnn.n. [ giggles loudly ] ] ♪ j...

Considered where the charges should actually be brought, reconsidered some of the venue issues -- i think they -- i think they have venue in d.c., but i can understand that there are arguments that might delay the venue decision that forces it to go through a hearing and an appeal and that by bringing it in florida, they sort of bulletproofed themselves from that, because obviously thats where the bulk of the activity in terms of the unlawful possession and obstruction occurred. >> does it speed...

What we know to be in their, and not in there -- and we dont fully know everything. but we know that there is some sort of a conspiracy charge. we obviously know there is obstruction. we do not see at this point dissemination. >> thats right. but i think the real key issue there, im looking for, when that indictment hits my desk is, do they allege the motive? why is it that donald trump stole those records in the first place? and why did he go to great lengths to obstruct the government in actua...

Taken that off the table. its in florida, strongest legal argument that that is exactly where it should be brought. theres no venue challenge thats going to come up of bringing it in florida. >> and obviously, we know, obviously we havent seen it, we know from jim and from cnn reporting, youve got espionage, witness tamper, and conspiracy, among whats referenced in the summons that they got. but you know, interesting, as ty says, seven charges seems to be very specific, very buttoned up, very ti...

Once again youve got prosecutors saying were going after this guy because of obstruction. thats their theoretical distinction from delaware, while they literally obstructed justice. they literally tampered with the witness in fall of 2022. >> we dont have any evidence of what youre claiming there. >> other than sworn testimony, right? >> thats what youre saying. im taking you at your word on that. we dont have any evidence for ourselves, i just want to note for our audience. i want to get back t...

This. well now we have the began to. jack smith and his prosecutors and investigators develop this case. they presented it under the special counsel rules. theres much we dont know, but chris chris, i know you are steeped in law, for reasons familial and otherwise, you know that those regulations require of garland to oversee them. and if he disagreed had to tell congress. now we know something we did know two hours ago. which is smith got the goods, garland backed him up. what else do we know f...