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And you have the footage. help me put together the pieces you have to build a case and i why the footage matters. >> just on this investigation generally, evan is so correct in this that this is a former president had it been determined the justice department told him we think you have classified documents. he provided them all, that would have been the end of this. and instead, this obstruction part and the growing piece of it is why there is so much legal jeopardy and why it continueses to exp...

Verdict. its allowed as long as there are multiple defendants or multiple counts. in this case, you have an abundance of both of those, so no problem with returning a partial verdict. the jury will continue to deliberate, and they may return more partial verdicts as they feel more confident about certain charges than others. and if i were betting, which im not, you can probably bet on resolving the lower down counts which deal with things like obstruction of government property. >> we just talke...

Person who has also been already convicted by this jury of things that he did that day on january 6th. but the big centerpiece of this case where prosecutors were trying to prove and they were arguing to the jury that these men came together, they made an agreement, and then they worked toward making sure that there was violence after the 2020 election, that they were radicalizing their followers, and on january 6th they had a plan to get not just their followers but other trump supporters on th...

Case, of course seditious conspiracy is the most serious charge that carries up to 20 years behind bars if convicted. but even if we dont get a conviction or even a verdict, a unanimous verdict on all of these charges, can you remind us what the different charges are that well be listening to hear verdicts on? >> yeah, you know, the obstruction of an official proceeding charge has the same exposure, criminal exposure for a lot of the defendants, and i think thats been generally a lot easier of a...

However, that doesnt mean they arent going to get it. it also doesnt mean that it exists. lets be careful about what we know and dont know. i would point to marcus work and ultimately the january 6th committees work as pointing to over and over again significant evidence that donald trump obstructed a government proceeding. you might not remember this, but it was considered extremely novel to charge people in the early days after january 6th with obstructing a government proceeding. obstruction ...

Development. >> its highly significant if the special counsel has reason to think the surveillance video was tampered with, very significant, one, this is a case of obstruction, that would be obstruction on steroids. that the department of justice specifically subpsubpoenaed. a very serious aggravating factor pointing the justice department to indictment under the espionage act. it would also mean that more than one person was involved. >> so, lets take a step back, as a prosecutor how much of t...

Youve got republicans who wont provide a filibuster proof majority in the united states senate to pass and assault weapons ban which over 60% of americans support, or pass universal background checks which depending on the pull up from anywhere from 70 to 80% of americans support. we have got reforms that we have yet to see progress, on but lets be clear, thats because of republican obstruction. i think most americans, even republicans know that. >> mondaire, what about the border aspect of this...

Party. but at some point people are going to tire of the chaos, they are going to revert back to the republican party being the party of law, and order, and they are going to say theyve had enough of donald trump. but i dont know whether thats going to happen between now in the primaries. >> yeah, i mean it will probably take another loss. or, you know, flip a switch and the u.s. enters a recession, and you have the man sitting with the nuclear codes in the white house again, also a complete pos...

The whistleblowers who have come forward to congress pursuant to their investigation are now fearful of testifying under threat s lawyers biden and friends, those are crimes, you know, tammy, in fact, for coimes, obstruction of congressional procedure, conspiracy to obstruct witness tampering and retaliation scainst witnesses. these are intimidation, thuggish scare tactics. but three months ago, youll recall hunter biden, his lawyers decided the best defense is a good offense. >> so they sent le...

You could see jack smith, you know, doing something, a decision this summer, maybe. >> this summer? going to be a busy summer. >> its going to be a very busy summer but hes been very aggressive on all of these fronts. both january 6th and the classified documents. >> danny, curious. your take on this and also all the cases. a boatload to pick from. what ive seen in polling, makes sense, actually, its, we all get the obstruction. he did something that biden, pence didnt do. theres something about...