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>> jill, i wonder what you are watching in the next of the documents that trump stored at mar-a-lago. >> i think that that is the low hanging fruit. there is every reason to believe, barring the department of justice having some evidence that has not been made public, which is exculpatory. there is always some chance of someone testified in a way to protect donald trump. and that could be something that could counter. everything weve seen has been that he is guilty of both the theft, does the wo...

Presidential candidate does not immunize him from indictment but told by people close to him that he still sees it as politically advantageous. sorry. legally advantageous to be a live political candidate in this context. >> following the same playbook as mueller saying this is a witch hunt. left wing prosecutor. he was a career prosecutor at the justice department. but the difference is he was a president then and mueller didnt come to a conclusion saying he would be prosecuted on obstruction b...

You think there is a case somewhere there that might be made. i think they probably -- i think whats driving this as much as anything is the fact they have a very, very strong case in mar-a-lago documents investigation, one that is i have to say i mean from the public evidence -- we dont know all the evidence but the public evidence looks like he doesnt have the defense to an espionage charge or obstruction charges or even a potential perjury charge for at least supporting it. so hes in substant...

Debra for cnn hero of the year or any of your favorite top ten heroes. thank you for watching. our coverage continues. three days after the president said he would run again, there are two separate on going federal probes that could complicate his path back to the white house to say the least. one into the former presidents role surrounding january 6th the other investigation into the documents marked classified taken to mar-a-lago in a possible obstruction of that investigation to boot. im jo...

That up to a local authority and jurisdiction, that mightve occurred. >> and paul butler, theres also that standard line in the appointment document that the justice released today saying go ahead and pursue anything else that you might find as your conducting this investigation. and if you want to -- have necessary, you can from that up to a local authority and jurisdiction, that mightve occurred. >> and that happens quite frequently. i think in addition to perusing the hundreds of pages of gra...

Documents as well as obstruction, false information, and contempt. and under mishandling of government documents, the person you think about, or talk about, its attention, national defense information, followed by concealing government records, the third is converging government property. talk about these six federal crimes that they point do, specifically, and which crime you think that trump team should be most worried about. >> so, like always, the crimes that defendants are the most worried ...

Expeditiously and thoroughly to whatever outcome the facts and the law dictate." this is a consummate prosecutor. thats the type of statement you would expect soun with a lot of prosecutorial experience. i want to emphasize that question of pace. thats going to be something that theres going to be a lot of attention paid to, how fast does an investigation move forward. we know both the january 6th investigation around the political circles of donald trump, the possible obstruction of congress, a...

Insists were not just untrue but knowingly untrue. so, what you are most concerned about in investigation like this is that the fbi often starts with low lying fruit. so all of those obstruction claims involved other people, lawyers, staff, et cetera. thats probably where the special counsel is going to start. >> jesse: they are going to try to flip the lawyers. >> thats right. on the january 6th references, i dont get it crime by president trump. we havent seen any evidence to be compelling tha...

Because of course politically speaking a lot of people on the sort of democrat side are screaming like oh, my goodness how long is this going to take? and then you have republicans sort of weigh in on this decision. so whats the answer? >> so i dont think itll delay things substantially. as weve been saying the investigation already has been going on. the people who have been working on it are going to continue to work on it. certainly the special prosecutor needs to get up to speed. pete was ju...

Obstruction into the investigation, obstruction. jessica, we do know that there are things happening in these investigations with people surrounding the former president. what is the appoint of the special counsel? how might that affect them? >> as carrie mentioned, this has been ongoing, wide ranging. this shouldnt change too much of the dynamic. these investigations have been ongoing for months. what it could change is that things could really ramp back up because were past the election now. t...