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Situation? >> when you learn people who have been working for you have been talking to the fbi and theres security footage, that has to be very disconcerting for the president. its a very troubling situation if the president where his own staff basically is seen as witnesses against him potentially. so of course, i think its a big deal. we dont know the full extent of it. we dont know exactly what has been said. but the reports that have come out so far you know certainly indicate you know, expo...

Would tv lawyers, rudy giuliani, may be, you better not. joining me now, ryan goodman, co-editor and chief of justice and security and law professor at nyu -- rachel maddow show and alex wagner tonight. were lucky to have both of their legal expertise here. ryan, i will start with you. we were just talking about this before the show, what a crazy chaotic week it is, but this revelation that donald trump may still have documents that the u.s. government wants, has to be one of the most bizarre de...

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Belong to him. the justice department is focused on not just the color of the documents, that obviously a minority. the idea is obstruction. -- john in particular danger, especially if he hasnt turned over all documents even after the fbi search. he told them in the summertime, in a statement signed by his lawyers and he had returned all documents. we know thats not the case as they obviously found boxes and boxes when they went in later in the summer. we know already that he is on holding true ...

Caught red-handed. in so many of these other cases proof of a crime requires knowledge and intent. i think donald trump is savvy enough not to use email and it could be very difficult to prove that level of knowledge. with regard to these documents having them get few about 90% of the way theyre. the other piece of it is showing that he knew they were there. i think his own admissions have demonstrated that he didnt know they were there and there are statements about the declassification of them...

Including, by his own lawyers. and, he still refuses to give it back. i think this opens two important questions for the justice department. how did they get them back, from our reporting, and no ones maiden in decisions about whether this is something to negotiate, whether they should get another search warrant, et cetera. so, that is the near term question. the far term question is, what does the department, ultimately, do about its handling of the situation vis-à-vis, any sort of criminal ch...

He has a store room full of classified documents. and he has two other residents. j.a. brad, justice department, communicates the trump lawyers, we think he still has some more stuff. the trump lawyers decide, after a little fight amongst themselves, should go with the combative response to that. what is the justice department, which should be the justice departments response to the combative response? >> they are going to be as combative as they can to be under the law. i want to be clear about...

I had it before on august 8th, because they had someone who was saying that the day before, this is their, i think they dont have it yet, its not that they are being skittish or squeamish, they dont have the legal tools at their disposal to force him to cough it up. they are giving him stern warnings that this is compounding the pace of obstruction against them. >> a quick follow-up, i know everyone in the audience out there, millions of people say wait a minute, you found a bunch of classified ...

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Intelligence. so this is very serious. and when i take these recent revelations to mean is that shortly after the midterm elections, indictments are likely to start flying. >> you believe that the department of justice might actually indict the former president? >> i believe is that it might well indict the former president for obstruction, for espionage. this is all quite apart from the possible indictment for seditious conspiracy and insurrection. i mean, its as though he is building a moat ar...