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Think makes this tangible. the two most compelling pieces that differentuate this case and the investigation against the vice president pence and pooud, one is the volume and sensitivity of the documents. the other is the obstruction. you did not have -- theres no chance, theres no evidence that you had vice president pences or president biden making a pluck it out motion or talking about in any way, shape or form they shouldnt do anything other than hurry up and give those documents back to the...

So thats one of the, i guess, answers to that question. but hes facing some real time. obstruction brings about five years in prison if he is convicted. hes somebody who was very, very close to the president when he was at the white house, was his bodyman, moved to mar-a-lago. and, as you pointed out, was seen in some of these surveillance videos moving boxes from one part of the property from the storage room to the residence. this is one reason why the fbi when they conducted that search in au...

Act, and with regard to grand jury obstruction, it does not matter if you declassify or not, because the subpoena asks for any documents that had physical classification markings on it. so whether it is declassified or not, he has to turn it over. so i just think that he sees things that are legally trivial, and he is missing the big picture here. >> neil: when i looked through all the counts, the first 31 seem to have to do with retention, knowing retention, national defense information, classi...

Retired. when i was with the bureau and took it out to the vertical position, they would keep themselves involved in the conversation. but we seem to be directing them now, they are in the middle of -- middle of the investigation. and the agents would generally just follow them back. they want to be proactive. i see in the hillary clinton case and pulling back on the reins. but not here with trump. >> neil: another key point they mentioned with this is that the charges including willful retentio...

What more can you tell us about the charges that walt nauta is about to face? >> well, wolf, walt nauta is facing six counts for obstruction and concealment of some of these documents. this is obviously something that he has loomed very large in this investigation certainly because, as you pointed out in what you just read from the indictment, prosecutors believe he lied to the fbi. and when he was confronted with those lies, he has refused to essentially flip, which is what i think a lot of tru...

Over the last week, Trump’s lawyers have met with Justice Department officials to argue against an indictment, while Trump has issued a series of social media posts suggesting he was anticipating being charged.

Under the law. [ applause ] and dana, you may not know, i was very troubled last summer when for the first time in history, there was a search warrant executed at the home of a former president of the united states. surely you know all the years i served on the judiciary committee. thats when you and i first met. there had to be dozens of ways that could have been handled other than that kind of behavior. when i informed the department of justice that we had classified materials potentially in o...

Trump criminal defense team on the documents case. now you heard andrew weissmann at the beginning of the show where we talked about what is going on with a florida grand jury, what might this mean for possible future defended trump in a documents prosecution jurisdictionally, would that be in a florida federal court, would that be -- what do you think? >> well, i listen to that piece, i actually agree with just about everything you said there. this case, you know, if you look at the allegations...

But there can be a lot of explanations for that. and one of them could be jack smith saying, you know what? i want to walk and chew gum at the same time. i want to make sure this is moving along. i dont want to lace. we want to hear from defense council. we want to hear their pitch. but im also going to continue on pushing these witnesses in, so everything is locked and ready. thats my speculation. but now there is internal pressure to get this case moving along. so, thats one explanation for wh...

Jury. every time that he has shown up in the documents investigation, that typically indicative of espionage questions. for other issues like obstruction, there have been other prosecutors both from -- you know special counsel jack smith had detailed to his office, as well as people he heard from the outside. i think the involvement of g brad in the grand jury, i think -- points to the fact that this grand jury mandate on espionage charge. >> glenn, what do you think, whether he likes it or, not...