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Dose honest, which is he. for the first time in a long time there is blood in the water. mike davis is the president of the article iii project and a former senate judiciary committee chief counsel. so the doj scope memo that garland writes to her, this new special counsel, it gives this hur guy powers to do what any -- whatever he wants, investigate biden, handling the documents, blah blah, but he also could investigate anything that may arise from this investigation, like perjury, obstruction,...

Sure there are no other classified documents, accidentally being stored. theyre on donald trumps and, the federal government repeatedly asked trumps team to turn over classified documents they believe were being improperly how at mar-a-lago. donald trump resisted turning over those documents. to get them back, the justice department passer than with a search warrant. to secure that warrant, the fbi told the judge, that they expected to find evidence of obstruction. by the former president at mar...

Regarding china and ukraine and other touch stone pieces of national security issues. monog but to your point and your monologue, theres just a lot of unknown questions thatilling the white house doesnt seem t to be willing to answer right now. >> i want your take on thi they dont want to get your take on this because msnbcs mika brzezinskmsnbi hass interesting theory about what this weeks developments mean. >> take a listen. the key issue of willful intent. to obstruct, thats what its thing to ...

Are very serious consequences. >> danny, you and i, as trial lawyers, focus on what the government has to prove, and that is intent, especially when it comes to obstruction. it also speaks of this idea of inadvertence that you just mentioned a minute ago. i know there is a political uptick that happens with the cooperation thats coming from the biden administration right now, but i want you to look at it from the legal perspective. does that then military it, for somebody like robert her, or jac...

Rob her as the special counsel in the biden situation, is about to commence, its also much more complicated one, and he of course has two investigations under his mandate. but part of the problem for him also is the volume and the willful-ness of president trumps conduct in that situation, and trying to understand a host of questions, including the former presidents involvement in packing up his materials, when he asked people to say, one of the first 15 boxes return over the national archives, ...

Documents? what was his intent. you investigate other people around joe biden. you have to make an effort if youre doj to speak with joe biden. now, that could go the easy way. he could agree to it. that could go the really difficult way. there could be a subpoena and perhaps a fight in the courts. or we could see some sort of middle ground -- bill clinton, for example, when ken starr wanted to talk to him after a difficult negotiation, they reached a middle compromise where bill clinton testifi...

Federal government began making its case today against members of the right wing extremist group the proud boys for their role in the january 6th attack on the capitol. former leader enrico tarrio is charged with seditious conspiracy and obstruction of a official proceeding. with four other defendants, ethan nordean, joseph biggs, and dominic pet sola. they played this infamous moment from the 2020 presidential debate. >> what do you want to call them? give me a name. >> white supremacists. >> w...

Obstruction. they are ignoring a lot of the questions we just about. >> that is the new narrative. the reality is different, the archivist wouldnt let them hav as if at mara lago, its still 1,000 times more secure than being in the garage next to the fancy car where this is a situation where doj said please lock the storage room and instead of working with the attorneys after the 15 boxes theyve received, they do a arrayed with a big boat like they put on the door. this myth about obstruction ne...

Classified documents, the archives were then alerted, the washington post reported that. in may of 2021, the archives told trump, hey, you have a lot of documents that you need to return. and for eight months, his team and he did not turn them over. then they turned over 15 boxes. then, the archive said, no, there are still more. so for more than a year, about a year and 3 to 4 months, trump and his lawyers and his team refused to return all of the classified documents that they had, and that is...

Special counsel need to interview the president? >> i thought they have to, eventually. >> is that what the president says his attorneys have said to him dont inquire about what the documents are because the less you know, the better? >> that could be. it standard operating procedure when you are the subject of an investigation like this, you dont want to give your client any more information then he already had. you want to put him away and for services but its. ultimately, this will come down ...