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Classified documents back from trumps attorneys. still know they dont have everything. and so this is obstruction. including something that they have seen on surveillance footage. and then they find 103 more classified documents. let me ask you, this has been mentioned already. "times" is reporting that prosecutors sought records on trump foreign business deals. and they say that they are overseeing the investigation into trumps handling of documents and the subpoena drafted by jack smith sought...

>> yes. if it, indeed, starts at that time there will undoubtedly being a verdict. the only thing that will slow the trial down, went back to 34 charges which were available. it will take a little lin longe do. >> youll have that done by the ele election. lets talk about the other -- >> if it starts -- >> if it starts then, if it starts on march 25th. >> the doj, special counsel, last week you said an ind indictment, youre talking about obstruction. cnn has learned jack smith

This obstruction case is a tight case and yes, i do think hell go to jail on it. >> describing it as tight and certain to send him to jail is notable only because it comes from someone who represented trump in the mueller probe. and who -- i think others saw his obstruction seeking to fire comey and mcgahn and rosenstein. it was at tight as could be. because he was president, there wasnt any consequence for that black and white, written for everybody to read evidence of obstruction of justice. w...

They quietly go off the case. they certainly dont go on television and do things like this. they just leave, and people ask why, go, he has a better team or she has a better team with her right now, and it was best for all. lawyers do that all the time. in this case, i just keep going back to the federal judge. i believe it was in this case who said, when they -- they pierced the attorney-client protection, and pierced that veil, they did so because they thought a crime may have been committed. ...

The trump legal team quit in part because he says another, boris epshteyn, was almost running obstruction and was getting in the way between what they needed to tell donald trump about how serious this all is. >> right. its almost as though theres a turf war going on here among the lawyers. you know, often, when you see a lawyer leave a legal team, that might signify that theres a plea deal in the works or that theres some legal reason behind the change. here, it looks like a pure turf battle, b...

What is so frustrating to me here is that the issue isnt miss placement on the part of trump, it was the refusal to give them back. republicans have to know that, right? >> yeah, certainly they know the distinction. donald trump apparently engaged in -- obstruction and outright lying through council to both the federal government and to the courts. and i think what republicans are trying to pursue here, alicia, can be some lessons learned from the stormy daniels, business fraud case, and other m...

Say, basically, president biden, paid the debt. 210 democrats sided on day one. 200 democrats are expected to sign it on monday. that gets us to 212. -- weve just seen six republicans to sign that. i think theres gonna be growing pressure for that. >> bob, i want to ask you about the constitutionality of that. this is actually in the constitution. its not an obstruction. the 14th amendment says america needs to pay its debts. even if it werent in the constitution, one should assume thats what yo...

Unbelievable one. >> so jon, also, some of the lawyers for donald trump might be in hot water themselves. so lets talk about the cases. what is your assessment right now, the manhattan one is moving forward slowly. we were all eyes towards georgia in the coming months, when you think things go from here? >> well i think that the georgia, the fulton county district attorney was giving a signal to the feds so that they did not make the same mistake that the manhattan d.a. made a starting with the ...

D.c. metro police department in charge of intelligence is charged with lying to federal investigators about his communications with proud boys leader enrico tarrio who is convicted of sedition. >> the indictment lays out a series of encrypted text messages between the two sharing sensitive information about the january 6 capitol insurrection investigation. jessica schneidertdetails. >> reporter: the officer charged is actually a supervisor in the homeland security bureau, it is alleged that he w...

Questions about it. but ultimately i didnt think that he said anything too terrible in there. maybe some inartful things like that, but nothing that changes the tenor of the investigation. >> the special counsels investigation cnn recently learned that the special counsel is particularly interested in the survey footage from mar-a-lago, what happened after they asked. are you aware of any gaps in the surveillance footage that has been provided to the special counsel? >> not at all. none. >> and ...