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More importantly, we have seen how there was this rush for not just prosecution for mere possession, as the mara largo scan began. also, people who claimed that the president, former president, even if he pleaded to a misdemeanor, should be barred from office. all of those argues are obviously applicable here. there are differences. there hasnt been an allegation there were false statements made or obstruction. we dont know a lot of the facts. we dont know if this is the full extent of these doc...

Attorney appointed by trump, by the way, to investigate the facts and get to the bottom of everything. thats important. but based on the facts we know so far, to compare these two things is to compare an accidental fender bender with deliberately driving your car into a crowd. these are apples and oranges. in the case of donald trump, we have seen resistance at every step to turning these documents over. when prosecutors make a decision about charging of the mishandling of classified documents, ...

Matter. president biden earlier this evening said that he was surprised to learn that there were any government records found there and that he and his office are cooperating fully. contrast that with former president trump where the national archives asked him multiple times for documents. trump strung them along for months. and in august the fbi took the extraordinary step of executing a search warrant on trumps florida home leading to investigations of possible obstruction, possible violation...

Obstruction preventing them from being returned to the national archives. theyre mad at the fbi for going to mar-a-lago to get those classified documents among other things and now saying we are going to pick this new congress, this new power we have and make it about donald trump. by the way, members of the house democratic leadership say they will not prevent their members from being seated on that committee. so -- could have some, at least, slight bipartisanship there. bring in congressional ...

Factor. in terms of material, there may be ten document some special access programs but -- clues but not sources and methods. when you compare that against what president trump held, 60 odd top secret documents, a lot more clues there. in terms of control, these were locked in an office that perhaps only biden and his team had access to wear with mar-a-lago this is a county storage space with boxes that common workers could have access to in. terms of a tenth as u.s. explained, president trump ...

The mishandling of classified documents happened all the time, we are only criminal, almost always administrative in nature, and it was only because of the specific facts in donald trumps case that you laid out, with respect to obstruction in particular, involving himself personally, which we have no knowledge of with respect to biden so far, that is what makes the difference. >> merrick garland has assigned an independent investigator, a u.s. attorney in chicago, to look into this. what is he e...

Are important distinctions between this and the swirl of controversy around donald trump in the documents at mar-a-lago. bidens lawyer said immediately turn over documents and cooperated as soon as they found them. it took several asks, subpoenas to get the search warrant. in that case, there was also an investigation of possible obstruction. the documents found in bidens office, fewer than a dozen. the ones found in mar-a-lago are in the hundreds. there was also a legal side and of course the p...

Youre speaker, of course. mccarthy and the republican chairman of the oversight committee james comer are drawing comparisons to mar-a-lago. and, of course, trump admitted that he knew about it. he said that he had declassified documents just by thinking about it, and the archives didnt receive them all. we know that there was an effort not to hand over documents. obviously the word obstruction comes with legal connotations and they are still deciding whether to pursue an indictment there. but, ...

So, im pleased to see that the justice department is putting u.s. in turning on that case. in, fact one appointed by donald trump. , but there are the similarities and, and i think that one, it is upon finding these documents, lawyers for president biden immediately called the national archives and said the documents back. thats one big distinction from donald trump since he is refused from 18 months to return the documents. we also have concerns about whether there was obstruction of justice in...

Were found under washington think tank, tied to president biden. walk us through how the headlines might be, similar but how the trump mar-a-lago documents, and the five documents are not at all the same? >> first, id say that anytime you have the potential of leaked classified information, that is leaked into the public domain, its important investigate that case, so im pleased to see that the justice department is putting the u.s. attorney on the case. in, fact one appointed by donald trump. b...