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Months, trump and his lawyer and his team refused to return all the classified documents they had, and that is why the fbi ultimately had to go search it. so its a very different set of events that happened and that is why trump is potentially facing violations of the espionage act as well as obstruction. >> lawyers you know what >> well, to lauras point, i believe, yes nuances matter at 11:00 drinking coffee talking about this stuff, energy drink but you know, when it trickles down to voters wh...

Interview the former president? does that calculation change them recommending an indictment? >> yeah, this is exactly the point elliott is making as well. they will get plenty of useful information out of the individuals around him, and its not just obstruction. number one, its obstruction and mutilation of documents, possibly, mishandling of the defense information and any other statutes compounded by the four former presidents conduct going back months before that search warrant was executed ...

Situation where the justice department believes there could be obstruction of justice that was one of the reasons that they went and did that unprecedented search at mar-a-lago last august that does make it a little bit different than the biden situation with that separate investigation, but in the trump mar-a-lago documents investigation we also know that there is a sealed court filing where the justice department has expressed that they are unsatisfied with donald trumps team making sure that ...

Some evidence the justice department would say of obstruction or at least not cooperation and what we know. >> i think thats the starkest difference, right, you katelyn is describing this months long process. it is not a cooperative process despite what the former presidents team likes to portray. in the case of biden. they are trying to portray that they have been boy scouts on this. they went to the archives as soon as they found the initial set of documents and, of course, while the u.s. atto...

Cnns senior crime and justice report caitlin polen joins us now. >> reporter: in the trump mar-a-lago documents investigation, this continues on. kaitlan collins and i confirmed the justice department wants to question two people that donald trumps legal team hired in november to go and search, his properties in new jersey, new york city and florida. they found two classified documents this november after the mar-a-lago search and after the trump team sent back many classified documents to the j...

Whether former president trump has fully complied with a subpoena issued back in may to hand over all classified documents he took with him when he left office. sources telling cnn federal investigators want to talk to two people hired to search trumps properties back in november for any additional records that have not been turned over. and now president biden faces his own special counsel investigation after his lawyers discovered obama era documents in his garage and a personal office in his ...

Evidence of obstruction of justice as in the case of donald trump and mar-a-lago. >> this is likely criminal what happened at mar-a-lago and you have to wonder why was he hiding the documents when requested and with someone who you cannot trust like donald trump what else is there? i think the president is concerned. that is obviously unintentional and outside of the requirements of our intelligence laws, classified information must remain in secured come partments. cooperation from the biden ad...

Rosenstein, the other reason they do it is because it works. none of those people are in their jobs anymore. none of those people are working to protect or advance the rule of law in the way they were before trumpcorroded and created this structure for republicans to make it their mission to dismantle the rule of law in this country. >> absolutely. andrew put it nicely that its the kind of legalized obstruction. its political intimidation in a clear and effective way. i come at it from a differe...

This area that jack smith investigating former president trump comes it garland and says, i recommend that the president be indicted on obstruction or whatever charges, given that you have another ongoing investigation, does that impact his ultimate decision because it does lie with him and here you have a scenario where there is a long-standing policy in the doj that a sitting president cannot be indicted? >> look, its very much in the attorney generals interest to ad here to the recommendation...

Here? >> thats a very good question, erica. i think paula hit the nail on the head in that this would lead me to believe that there is more that hasnt been reported because ronato was absolutely right, the threshold to even get to appoint ago special counsel is that merrick garland had to believe there was some basis to pursue a criminal investigation and based on all the reporting weve seen thus far that isnt there. historical prosecutions of this nature show that there has to be an aggravating...