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When the national archives was looking for, why was he showing them? and why did he want to keep them? obviously donald trump prides himself on being a great deal maker. did he want to make a deal with them? what was he doing with these? >> first off when the story came out the first thing i could think of what does it dress rehearsal look like of taking boxes at mar-a-lago? >> obstruction. it looks like obstruction. >> no, even from a more comedy side of it -- no, just like whose, okay were goi...

Moved before he had his lawyer searched the room, and him trying to trick his own lawyers. the scale, the sheer amount of classified documents trump had, the thing that makes trumps documents investigation such a stark contrast from president bidens, or even vice president pences investigations? is the appearance of obstruction. all signs indicate that biden and pence immediately, and fully, cooperate with authorities after being informed that classified documents in their possession. the same s...

A new twist tonight in the intensifying federal investigation into donald trump. was a dress rehearsal held at mar-a-lago to move around sensitive documents before the feds came to get them? if so, the question is, why? did donald trump himself take part in or direct such a dry run? tonight, "the washington post" reports never before heard evidence that may be crucial to the special counsels investigation. on june 2nd of last year, two trump employees allegedly moved boxes of papers that day bac...

The >> idea of address what comes from an opinion we havent seen yet, a sealed opinion about the crime fraud exception. got to the legal doctrine that allows the court to pierce an attorney client provides, and this, case judge beryl howell of the d.c. district court, apparently found in a lengthy opinion, that evan corcoran had apparently been duped by donald trump. and that there was an enough evidence of possible obstruction by the former president, as well as retention, unlawfully, of classi...

Lawyer, evan corcoran, conducted his own search of the room that day. so, trump ordered his employees to move boxes of documents back into a storage room for his own lawyer, evan corcoran, conducted a search. later that same day, corcoran called the doj, told them it was fine to swing on by. the following day, doj officials came by to pick up documents. as well as a signed attestations written by corcoran, signed by trump lawyer, christina bobb, confirming that. to the best of her knowledge, a d...

Know he had the documents? there is no question whatsoever that he knew about these documents. the reporting is that he went through them himselves. he showed them to people. there is always been a question about intent. what was he going to would the documents? he wasnt p.o.w.ing them online. he wasnt as far as we know selling them to anyone. but the reporting that he was showing them to other people at least shows us he was giving this information out to some selected people for some selected ...

Exhibits that you could see walking in the room with him. >> yeah. what a shock. donald trump likes to show off. he loves these momentous, and he had the ultimate momentous. he had classified records. people had never seen. look what ive got. look what i learned what our president. he could show it off. and to follow up on harrys point, it goes to this issue, it was always the idea of an espionage act charge in terms of willful retention of national defense information and not returning. this wo...

Against the united states? certainly, its not that sexy. obstruction is still a federal crime and it sticks. >> its part and parcel of having a complete disregard for democracy. im struck by this idea of the retention of documents. the obstruction piece of this. also, this idea that he potentially had the documents out, was sharing them with other people, how does that factor in, legally? >> its a separate violation. the espionage act, under 18 usc seven 83, for those following at home, e of tha...

The absolute right to do whatever i want with them. i have the right. >> leaving our discussion tonight is harry lippman, former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general. he is senior legal affairs analyst for the l.a. times and bradley moss has with, us the national security attorney and former clerk for the national security archive. and harry lippman, there is so much here. we have to begin with the dress rehearsal. is a former federal prosecutor, when you were looking for o...

The whole enchilada, not just obstruction. >> harry lippman, we saw donald trumps lawyers do a classically donald trump lawyer kind of thing, which is outrageously unprofessional and no one else would do it, publicly sandal enter to merrick garland filled with crazy rhetoric about things like hunter biden, but the bottom literally, the bottom line of the letter was, would you please have a meeting with us so we can try to talk you out of prosecuting donald trump? we are apparently unlikely to ha...