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This document has been declassified. we need to make that point because that protection of sources argument is now nullified. so whats your reaction to this brazen obstruction by the fbi? >> well, i dont know why we are surprised, flight director wrays boss is garland. garlands boss is biden. keep in mind, the fbi isnt completely independent. they fall underneath the doj. and director wray is very political. hes very smooth at pivoting. but his boss is directing -- is protecting biden. and so wh...

With crimes, convicted of, crimes pleading realty to crimes in the mueller investigation who were close confidants to donald trump. but at the end of the investigation, one of the people that was coming in was attorney general bill a bar, who was clearly of the mindset that there was never a -- we knew that because he had said it in a public letters, that he did not believe there was an underlying crime that should have been investigated there. that is a different circumstance than what we have ...

There were also problems around the "ive declassified these documents just by thinking about them" argument. presumably, there would have had to have been a paper trail of him doing this. what happened to the declassified documents after he took them back to the white house in office, would they suddenly get reclassified again? not to mention the fact you have allies in an uproar if it was possible to declassify documents in this casual way. his argument never held water. it is interesting, hugo...

Thats knowledge that of what he has in his hands. it contradict what is he told kaitlan collins at the town hall. listen. >> i was there, i took what i took. it gets declassified. >> did you show those classified dlts to anyone? >> not really. i would have the right to. >> awhat do you mean not really? >> i have the right to do whatever i want with them. >> to the point that notwithstanding what the former president said at the town hall, the idea that if trump had a document and said, id love t...

The one indictment weve already gotten out of manhattan. >> were prone to say its about to drop on donald trump. weve said it a million times before. obviously, he still is where he is. in this case, you cant escape the fact that there are these twin investigations happening simultaneously with the campaign. theyre going to collide at some point. look, mike barnicle didnt set me up like andrew, maybe i lack the expertise that andrew has, but it strikes me this documents case is so cut and dry at...

Whether its just bluffing. jack smith knows this. that the document does exist. itll be very interesting, also, too find out whether this is one of the documents that was turned over by donald trump back to the archives or whether it was something that theyre still looking for. in other words, what is the current status of that document? is it something that was obtained by jack smith from donald trump thats pursuant to the search or not, or is it going to be an example of a document that he sho...

Going to have additional significance because its a document that actually was not returned by donald trump as it was required to be. so it could be also a form of obstruction, if it wasnt. >> so when we say smoking gun, i want to get a little bit more from you on that because ive heard that term use bid legal analysts about all sorts of things regarding donald trump over the years, including the investigation that you were working on, and im sure you must have been, if you saw any of it, scratc...

Rethink your thinking? >> first three tracks, because theres also the tracks of unlawful taking which among other things is more likely to be in d.c. or edva where he wants venue. sort answer, yes, although im still not totally on the other side. i think the evidence is there its going to be a matter of prosecutorial judgment for him. and really garland will defer to whether or not he wants to potentially complicate the case and make the state of mind so central when hes got the goods on him, on...

Much fodder to be discussing whats going on in the other side. we know from yesterday theres audio of president trump talking about how he had a classified document about a potential attack on iran in his possession at bedminster where i dont think you do any of your presidential work, thats what jack smith is at. people are saying its going to be obstruction now and espi espionage. >> jesse: espionage! >> jessica: its not a joke, the national records office reached out to trumps lawyers and sai...

>> that was our friend amy mcgrath earlier this week on alabama senator tommy tubervilles obstruction of military promotions and its real world impact on national security and military readiness. same senator who said that white nationalists belong in the military. tuberville has continued to double and triple and quadruple down on his racist remarks and anti-american sentiments. a local paper reports that during a 90 minute interview last week with donald trump jr. on his streaming show "trigge...