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Trump/mar-a-lago search, why biden and his team didnt think, you know what, maybe we should go and search all of our residences to make sure we dont have classified documents. now fast forward several months later, here we are, right? and the bottom line is, you have two special counsels looking at it, a former president, a current president, their handling of classified information. there are huge distinctions, the biggest one, of course, is the fact that with trump there is an obstruction of j...

Its an issue of what would happen as a result. if you drive on the highway most days. you are probably going to be speeding. your breaking the law. do you think youre gonna be pulled over and given a ticket. probably not in most circumstances. mishandling of class information. classified information is very serious. always. and minimize the significance of this particular posture. the reality is that happens all the time. if its handled properly. there is no compromise of the information. there ...

And they took these documents, at least six classified documents, including other documents, and handwritten letters from joe biden. the fbi took that and now its part of this investigation. bakari, this is truly remarkable. the fbi searching the private property of a sitting president. how politically damaging is this to president biden, in your view? >> first of all, i dont think its truly remarkable. i think they were doing a disservice when we begin to lump in donald trump, hillary clinton, ...

Classified records are found in peoples homes, outside of the office, unprotected locations. obviously its much more alarming when its the president of the united states, the former president, and his home. however, no one gets charged if theyre handing them back to the federal government. that is not something that you see in the history of cases here. people get charged when they wont give them back or whenever theyre concealing things from the justice department. going back through the docume...

Multiple locations, and of course it is concerning, because this is classified material. but it does seem like at least for now, the white house is trying to be as cooperative as possible with the justice departments investigation. >> but the concern is actually a systems question, why this seems to happen across administrations. the white house told us last night there was no search warrant if youd in this latest search. walk the audience through why that is significant. >> its significant beca...

They dont get anything. they have the meeting down there where they were begin some documents but not all of what was there. then they had hard evidence there were still documents on the premises in the form of video surveillance they got from the trump team. at that point, they had probable cause to believe there was evidence on the premises. thats what gets you a search warrant. >> there was an obstruction of justice investigation at that point. weve been trying to em sphasiz that on the show,...

Every step of the way with the justice department. one thing that they have been trying to do is draw in implicit contrast with the way theyre handling it versus the way former president donald trump has handled the classified documents that were at his mar-a-lago home. of course, there is a special counsel also looking into him and looking into whether there was obstruction that went on with former president donald trump. but what the biden lawyers what president biden are trying to say is they...

From what the special counsel there is looking at? >> yeah, i think the main thing we havent seen here is false statements to investigators and a repeated unwillingness to hand over whats already there. i think it looks like when hay found something, they pretty wick wily gave it over. will the doesnt appear to be any evidence anything was left behind which was what ultimately prompted the search warrant that the doj felt they had to go grab from mar-a-lago. there will likely be a different outc...

They havent appeared to take that step yet, but they certainly can if they want to. eric: could you describe the process, if goes before a grand jury, they decide whether or not to issue indictments? >> yeah. so the grand jury would hear evidence from investigators who have investigated the case and witnesses to certain aspects of it. the federal prosecutors will have an initial decision about whether or not to present the grand jury with an indictment here because thats a special counsel, there...

Way to google any of our names and the first result that will appear and in my case, the fbi came into my house and put me in jail and put me in handcuffs and told me that i was facing multiple felony charges. they charged me with two felonies and a misdemeanor and threatened me with a third and it was obstruction of congress and i was potentially faces decades in prison for the eight minutes i stood outside of the capitol filming a video on a camera. i waived my options and said id plead guilty...