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Always seemingly unable to have a full picture before they go out publicly and say something. thats part of the issue here for the white house. in some ways, its a contrast with former president trump, who has made clear that it didnt matter. he doesnt believe he should turn over any of these documents, these are his, and why that investigation is more of an obstruction of justice investigation compared to this one. now, right now we only know of an investigation into whether documents were mish...

About around 20 to 30 documents where former president it is over 300 documents and the main thing alicia is that there is a case of obstruction around the former presidents handling of his classified documents, doesnt appear to be the case with president biden as weve said theyve come forward weve been talking about how it was handled, how it might not be where it should be but with the former president trump we knew that he actually had his lawyers tell the national archives that they had turn...

President bidens case and the documents that donald trump stored at mar-a-lago? >> lets start with the numbers. first of all, we are talking about -- we just found out about five more pages today. we are still talking about -- the first batch was fewer than a dozen. so, we are still talking about fewer than, probably, 20 to 30 documents. whereas, for president trump it is over 300 documents. and then the main thing, alicia, is that there is a case for obstruction around the former presidents han...

Front end, after dhs has been investigating for a while, which is the case with trump? >> in the trump case, they came in after they investigated for a while, and after months of them trying to get documents, and so the big difference is having a special counsel after all that, very strong predicate for probable criminal activity. the special counsel regulations say that you only appoint one if you think its warranted if you think theres a possibility of criminal investigations being necessary. ...

Other touchtone pieces of national security issue. but your point inner monologue which is a lot of unknown questions that the white house doesnt seem to be willing to answer right now. >> i want your take on this because msnbc has an interesting theory about what this deponents mean. >> the key issue of willful intent to obstruct thats whats cannot come down to. this waste of elements actually make it more likely that the drg moves on from. because the political space that has been given. by th...

-- hey does the government have overreach? did they pick out journalists and critics and opposition leaders and whistleblowers and go after them? >> yeah, its the big tell on this, the little freeze in the authorization that says theyre empowered to look into ongoing criminal investigations. this is such a blatant violation of the separation of powers. and the inappropriate stance, and activity for congress. that is really the kind of tell that is sort of the obstruction of the justice committee...

Office immediately alerted the government, -- the national archives, and they turned over the governments. and also surged all of bidens offices, and, properties to make sure there were no other classified documents,. accidentally being stored there his team as been adamant that they are cooperating, fully, with investigators. although i second. because in the case of this other guy. the federal government repeatedly as a former presidents team to turn over the classified arguments that they bel...

Documents back, refused to give them back. he was, you know, he received a grand jury subpoena, refused to comply with that. there was a personal visit from the justice department. they still didnt get the documents back. it wasnt until there was alleged evidence of obstruction of justice that the justice department uexecuted a search warrant at his residence to retrieve the documents without his permission. thats very different, obviously, than the case of president biden, which really to me a ...

Too. look, there are some differences that we initially thought were there, that arent anymore, at least to the same degree. for example, the locations where these documents or found. but, harry, its 100% right. thats where the criminal laws concerned, the things that the law sees as important our, is the conduct willful and intentional? and was there evidence of obstruction? and in both of those cases, im 100% agreeing with harry. lets go to bob bauers statement today about a transparency again...

Kingdom. this newest special counsel, robert hur, he is specifically tasked to look into the potential unauthorized removal or retention of those classified documents and potential criminal probe. but of course current doj guidance is that sitting president cannot be charged with a crime. so the attorney general explained the spkecial counsel appointment was warrant because of the extra circumstances because another special counsel is investigating president trump for possible obstruction of any...