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That adding in any new technology is itself a potential vulnerability. if you start adding in bar codes and scanning and screening, you might invite more abilities for hacking. the big picture is we have a problem if -- and, frankly, this is far beyond trump and biden. every president has slipped up in some way. what this comes down to is the word intent. can prosecutors prove that someone willfully or knowingly got documents. that is not president today in the president biden investigation in a...

And thats the crime that is being investigated here. the question is, was this willful, was this something that the president or anyone else may have done on purpose? that is the pursuit here by the fbi and rob hur, the new special counsel looking into this. the white house has made clear in all of their statements that the president, president biden, was not aware that these documents were there, he says that he doesnt know what is in them. we only know from jamies reporting over the last coupl...

Which involved, you know, possible obstruction and attempts to hide them and denials that they exist, and the case where the presidents lawyers were going through spaces, looking for files, and found them and immediately reported it. but the special counsel regulations say, does the matter merit investigation, which clearly this did, which is why it was referred to the u.s. attorney in chicago. but, also, are there extraordinary circumstances. and i think it was the judgment of the attorney gene...

,but they havecr resulted ines criminal charges. >> more importantly, weve seene how there was this this rushr no for not just prosecution, for pe mere possessiocun as the the mar-a-lago scandal began, but also people who claim thatr pred the president, even if formerevi president , even if he pleaded to a misdemeanor, should b be barred from office. >> sfromffice.o all of those ar are obviously applicable here. >> there are differences.e hasn >>t there hasnt been ann allegation that they were f...

Have said was the more likely path for indictment. is that your view as well and would that -- is that fundamentally different, right, from bidens handling this? >> yes, and i think the reason theyre looking at obstruction is they really dont have to get into as much of what the classifications were and what was in the documents but just the fact that they were repeatedly requested and then not -- and then not given over, sure. i do think one issue thats still outstanding is whether or not the r...

Are all about the future, not about going back to figure out what might have happened or what should have been looked at before what will you willy -- it will be two cycles ago pretty soon. >> there are really two legal issues when it comes to trump, holding the documents, but then the obstruction of -- resisting handing them overs, and lawyers said its really the obstruction line that would most likely to create a charge if the justice department decided to go that way. had the -- has the biden...

James clayton, bbc news, santa cruz. in the united states theres been chaos for air travellers after a systems failure brought delays to hundreds of domestic flights right across the country. the federal aviation administration says there was a problem with the system are letting pilots to potential hazards on flight routes. 0ur transport correspondent katy austin is here — whats going on? earlier there was an outage of a system called notice to air admission system in the us which is importan...

Indicate the differences that led to why the fbi had to execute a search warrant and why these two cases are not like one another and neither of them are good cases, but if president trump and his legal team had acted the way, so far weve seen the biden team act, there would be no legal issues for donald trump. nobody wouldve said anything about it, because it wouldve been just looked at as oh, not a good situation, but frankly, somewhat commonplace. not to the extent it was, but the mishandling...

>> youre not wrong at all and you laid out all of these facts. and you probably have to take up your whole program to indicate the differences that led to why the fbi had to execute a search warrant and why these two cases are not like one another. neither are good cases, but if president trump and his legal team had acted the way so far weve seen the biden team act, there would be no legal issues for donald trump. nobody would have said anything about it because it would have been looked at as ...

Cases. the thing theyre spending the most amount of time on is the mar-a-lago documents case. a person close to the legal team described it 80% of our time is focused on the documents case, 20% on the january 6th case, and 10% is spread everywhere else. >> the e. jean carroll case is a civil case, barbara, but is that sort of the right way to look at it, the most jeopardy donald trump faces is on the mar-a-lago documents because of the obstruction and just for possessing the documents at all? >>...