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From the position short-term of republicans and trump supporters, more advantageous for trump to muddy the water but these are two separate investigations. yes, there are aspects of these two instances and cases and problems that look similar, from what we know, and again to davids point, there is still a lot to learn, but what we know, these are not identical situations. the main difference is the alleged obstruction by donald trump over and over for a very long period of time. when the archive...

That? >> well, its going to be impossible storing classified documents with your corvette. that is something that doesnt meet any standards for classified information protocols. even though its a really hot car and quite frankly i would protect it even more than the president did, but, its not going to pass muster. this is gross mishandling of classified information. and, in order to order a special counsel into the field, vice president garland had to find that this warranted a criminal investi...

Have seen them standing back, not just since the search which actually was pretty condemned but once it was clear what the volume and severity was of the documents that were in -- said to be in former president trumps possession so this allows republicans to say, hey, look, this happened with biden too. again, as we have stressed here, from what we know so far, these are not analogous situations but in this sort of tribal partisan environment republicans are going to cling to it. >> carrie, one ...

Accidentsly stuff his documents full of intelligence reports on iran, great britain and ukraine as he was walking out of the white house in 2017 right after he spent the last week of his vice presidency in ukraine? well, no one really cares on capitol hill. >> talk about the classified documents found in president bidens think tank. >> no, no, no. no evidence of deliberate intent or obstruction of justice as we see in the case of donald trump in mar-a-lago. >> do you think that poses a national ...

Which is what i laid out, and thats because the point of a criminal prosecution is not to punish sloppiness, but to punish intentional bad acts. >> criminal acts. >> and we dont have any of that here. >> what are they going to do to investigate this? we know that there is a u.s. attorney in chicago assigned to this by merrick garland. is he going to have to interview president biden? how would it determine all of this? do you have a sense? >> i think that will be way down the road. so far, theyv...

Right? tens of them and not hundreds of them. >> interesting. >> the doj doesnt prosecute the statute unless there are aggravating factors. the point of a criminal prosecution is not to punish sloppiness but to punish intentional bad acts. >> we dont have any of that here. >> what are they going to do to investigate this? we know there is a u.s. attorney in chicago who is assigned to this by merrick garland. is he going to have to interview president biden? how are they going to determine all th...

Stressed, here from what we know so, far these are not analogous situations. but in this trouble environment, republicans are going to cling to it. >> the fact that the former president is also investigated for obstruction. do you think that investigation could impact any decision-making from the doj as it relates to the former president? >> as to whether or not the existence of the investigation for president biden documents impacts the investigation of former president trump, the answer to tha...

Documents and top secret classified information on the servers of hillary clinton. nothing happened to her talk about obstruction. she deleted all these emails with bleach, but destroyed all of those devices with hammers removed all of those sim cards. that to me would be classic obstruction. one one. >> nothing happened to her. >> well, in your point is an important one , because if merrick garland were foolish enough to bring criminal charges against donald trump over the removal and storage o...

>> it is appropriate. you know, weve asked vis-à-vis the much larger cash of documents at mar-a-lago. you know, when every time classified information is somewhere totally, we want to make sure that we understand what are the risks? how was it maintained, what was the nature of the facility? in terms of the justice department, i think we are talking about barry radically different situations. one involving former president trump who refuse to turn over documents when they were asked for. or if ...

Investigated, but of course that is something that is going to have to be looked at in the future. but thats what the difference is between this investigation, bianna, and the investigation of former president trump, which from the beginning included the question of obstruction. >> and, john, i think its important and relevant that we highlight were talking about the time lapse between when the doj was notified and when the public was notified of these classified documents. to go back and think ...