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Significant now? well, they get us straight to trumps state of mind, exposing and confirming that he knew exactly what it takes to declassify documents, but ignored the process and then kept the records even after the government asked for them back. in other words, obstruction. as weve seen from his public comments, the ex-president provides the furthest thing from a denial. >> if youre the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying its declassified, even by thinking about...

They subpoena trump for all the remaining classified material. they know based on what comes back in the 15 boxes that there is more, and its classified. june 3rd, the trump team met with doj and provided this letter saying that there is nothing left. this is the attest station that i think turned some of the lawyers into grand jury witnesses. august 8th, the fbi goes in and searches, and they indeed find what they put in their petition to a juvenile judge, 100 documents at mar-a-lago. fast forw...

With the durham report, "new york post" columnist miranda devine is the author of the laptop from and she joins a us now. proteca, i thought there was a protection for whistleblowers . haah, hi, will . well, clearly not. and weve seen this overd over and over with other whistleblowers from the fbi, people like steve fringe, who basically suffer greatly from trying to be honest and trying to bring some accountability to these agencies. ag i think this is worse than retaliation against a whistlebl...

Bureaucrat. >> whate from soms going on ? >> yeah, i mean, is anybody>> i surprised this senior irs supervisor followed the law under the whistleblower statute, its meant to protect him. >> he notifiedr the inspectororr general. >> he notified congress ofess corrupt acts involving-- favoritism and political interference in the hunter. biden case, in fact, that biden appointees blocked prosecution of hunter. >> so now the whistleblower and his entire team have been kicked off the case. and it ree...

Litigious, but they also argue they want to continue to defend these important questions about executive privilege. theres lots of reasons why they do this. also just some bad blood between the special counsels office and the former presidents attorneys. they dont speak. theres no accommodation process here. even publicly the former presidents lawyers have attacked them even though their client is under investigation. some of this is just sport for them. they would argue, also, theyre trying to ...

Took them declassifies them. its not the law. >> whats interesting youre saying obstruction, but they could also include espionage to make the point. >> yeah. >> so what do you think the actual charges will be, and in them, would trump be looking at jail time? >> so, i wouldnt if it was me, based on my own prosecutorial career, i would not necessarily expand the case to try to prove the espionage act piece of it because theres so much evidence of guilty knowledge on the espionage piece that all ...

Broadened to go ahead and include the espionage act and counts and the possession, illegal possession of the classified documents, given the extent that, and solely because. fact that trump keeps lying about what the law is. and they may decide that its important enough for the country to fully grasp that. they dont need that to prove the obstruction. trump could be right that he can declassify these things between foot massages, but the reality is thats just not the truth. the simple truth is t...

Isnt opened into trump initially. it turns into an investigation also looking at trump after he fires comey and the obstruction of the investigation question is on the table, whether or not doing the work or work that would make vladimir putin happy is also part of a national security question. i mean trump very prominently last week told vladimir putins lying as someone largely to be a war criminal. he is a candidate for office in 2024 who still has a direct call and answer between vladimir put...

>> sure. >> i have a question, by the time the mueller report was over, fellowship, manafort and stone had not been pardoned. if they had been pardoned at that point, by the time the investigation was coming to an end, do you think that would have changed the calculation about whether trump obstructed justice? >> wow, hypotheticals. >> its a law school exam. >> its an important one. so, you know, i think that the issue is that there were already ten instances that were laid out in volume 2 of th...

States with coal increasing global omissions. consider americas 225 coal fire power plants chinas 1118. half of all the coal fire plants in the world. since 2010 the u.s. has reduced coal-fired electricity generations okay china has increased it by an enormous amount. many people have been puzzled by the biden administration and biden has energy policy toward a country that enslaves its people, steals intellectual property from the u.s. and threatens our allies and partners. and threatens now. t...