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House oversight chairman, said this is a further concern there is a two-tiered justice system. we dont know that. the question is what this leads to, what the documents were, how it is handled, but there are legitimate questions that the biden administration needs to answer on this. and it also comes at a time when the situation for merrick garland, the attorney general, just got a lot more complicated. even though there is a special counsel handling the trump mar-a-lago documents, doesnt this o...

The documents were readily turned over and certainly there hasnt been any claims he owns them or has any right over them. there seems to be cooperation there. in terms of the obstruction which for president trumps purposes is the much more significant legal issue, that does not seem to be an issue in this case. still, the handling of the documents is at issue. >> no surprise that supporters of the former president jumped on this and the former president on his social media site say when is the f...

Cooperation. the biden team is fully cooperating and we know the former president and his team have not been very cooperative. they stonewalled and ignored and produced some documents and many werent produced until a subpoena was obtain and things have been uncovered, it is been very complicated and messy which led to possible obstruction and so baseond what we know now, these are two very different investigations. but weve only known about the biden matter for about 24 hours and we continue to ...

Cases. i think classified material ought to be taken care of. and i think people who have been all over donald trump about this ought to have the wherewithal to be all over joe biden about it too. >> one thing to keep in mind though is the former president is in trouble for claiming that he turned in documents, that he did not, ignoring subpoenas. some of his lawyers are accused of saying that they signed off on certifying that they had documents, that they didnt, or had documents and it turned ...

And thats where i go back to the potential pitfall for joe biden if youre explaining youre losing. however, it really doesnt -- and well see where this goes, and well see where the mar-a-lago investigation goes. now, both are before the department of justice. it is very, very different. and if joe biden is able to explain it in a cogent way, if he gets to that point, if theyre on a debate stage, then it should be a no brainer for people to understand the difference because of what audi said, whi...

Former high level officials i know, a former president of the united states, a former director of the cia, who ive known for years, have told me they have found something in their homes afterwards. it can be an honest mistake. so, you know, to elliotts point, what was the intent? to -- you know, there does not seem to be obstruction here. they couldnt have been more cooperative. i am told that if there was not the mar-a-lago documents situation that the national archives might very well not have...

Probably, you know, speaks for itself in terms of analysis. >> im so interested you said it helps trump. i was talking to people close to his legal team yesterday, and they were saying this is a huge gift to them because they believe, you know, politically speaking, of course, the obstruction is the big part of the trump story, he resisted for so long turning them over. they believe it helps make the argument it is pretty easy actually to innocently and mistakenly perhaps take classified documen...

Well. >> jackie kucinich, there is the legal questions here, particularly with the obstruction and then the political questions and the attorney general has to make decisions about a number of cases involving trump and politics are part of that judgment. as a practical matter, does this change or influence or cause pause, right, in the mind of the attorney general as he considered various cases, including the classified documents case against trump. >> i think this is why he referred it to anoth...

Likely obstructive conduct at the end of a case. >> its a great comparison. part of the case against trump is obstruction, is legally the handling, but you know that this decision -- we know that this decision form merrick garland hs politics involved. hes got to make a case and realize he would be charging a former president here. so in that sense if you are the ag now, im going to put you in those shoes, does this make you more wary of charging him? >> it doesnt make me more wary. the attorney...

Search. trump personally directs an employee to move boxes. there are documents that are found in his home, his personal quarters. does the differences here or the differences that we understand at this point to exist, do they matter? >> they matter very significantly. as andy can discuss as well, among the factors the department of justice takes into account with respect to whether to pursue criminal prosecution is the extent to which there are so-called aggravating factors present. and no aggr...