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Ukrainian civilians. and other words, this is not just information that the u.s. is interested in, a lot of people are interested in, which brings me back to a few essential questions, why would trump remove these from the white house, and keep them, and deny having them repeatedly? and second, does the sensitivity of these documents, combined with the president well-documented obstruction, does that all increase the chances that the doj will seek to prosecute the former president? joining us no...

Important point that even sitting presidents, including abraham lincoln, gerald ford, famously, testifying before congress. further, both former, and sitting presidents including nixon, tyler, and quincy adams have provided evidence response to congressional subpoenas. theres a long history that they are drawing on. >> that is right. they referred to nixon. nixon had to produce the tapes, and he was president at the time, and these were tapes of conversations that had taken place in the oval off...

Legal assistance lawyers paula jones, and her sexual harassment suit against, and sitting president, donald -- bill clinton in the 1990s. can i get your reaction to this document, in terms of laying out the case, and establishing the motive, or to have reason to subpoena, and speak on the documents that they are seeking? >> >> my reaction was guilty, guilty, guilty, on all counts. this is a draft indictment. in time, they still have to contain the evidence, it lays out the different ways, in whi...

Classified documents, or other classified information, they have to group up in court, and that this is actual, national defense information and it was damaging u.s. national security, including causing exceptionally grand damage. sometimes, the intelligence committee says no, we wont let you go to court to say that. so, it remains to be seen. it was before it became any at all, and where they became they were mishandling toward this classified information. >> let me follow up on that with the l...

We will never know, will we? were not talking about trump taking home some innocent memorabilia here. we are talking about documents relating to irans missile program, which the u.s. keeps a very close eye on. we are not the only country keeping a very close eye on irans missile program. there are a lot of people who might be potentially interested in irans nuclear program, and its missile program, including its enemies, like the saudis, who are sworn enemies of the iranians, also the emiratis. ...

We really would not be necessarily at a criminal investigative stage right now. so, i think it is hard to look inside some of it necessarily know exactly what they want, what they think but its a major question, and its a very important one for investigators to solve. >> presumably, they might be able to look into more than trumps heart, perhaps, there is some kind of communication that exist somewhere, that explains what exactly he was doing, squirreling away chinese and iranian intelligence at...

I think that technically amounts to, in terms of prosecutable, indomitable, convicted of a crime. but, the obstruction of the official proceeding does seem, quite clear, what they have so far? >> the obstruction statute is by the government with defending, corruptly, is to interfere or block in an official proceeding. you can do that by lying under oath, and before a congressional investigation and it is an ultimate serious act, and it was an ultimate attempt to obstruct the ultimate for proceed...

Actually can be part of it or is a conduit for the clients to engage in crime. and when that happens, and the judge finds that by a preponderance of the evidence that is more likely than not, then the attorney client privilege and the work product privilege go away. and that is what judge carter found again, today, he had previously found that with respect to certain documents, with respect to mr. eastman, and mr. trump, communicating with each other. related to the obstruction of the congressio...

In georgia, this really unveils even more evidence for prosecutors, particularly at the justice department who have been probing over all of these efforts to overturn the 2020 election on multiple fronts, but the real question now is, will prosecutors, will the attorney general, merrick garland, ultimately think it is enough to charge the former president or any of his allies with obstruction or conspiracy to defraud? interestingly, it is not just these emails are being handed over, in the order...

Very strong evidence of donald trumps criminal intent. which is always so difficult to prove in any kind of case that involves fraud. its what was in the mind of the person since we cant see the minds of other people. and as you say, because donald trump himself is so careful, not to use email or text messaging, sometimes its hard to catch him in that act. but here, we have the next best thing. which is his lawyer saying, i talked him about ex, he knows x is wrong, and he still signed an ad -- a...