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Including national security interests. i am very interested in your take on this, could a special master actually be harmful to the investigation, and the governments interests? >> it depends how broad the mandate that special master had, and whether the judge stop the government from doing what it is doing wally special master did his or her work. if they stop the government from doing what they are doing, i think the justice department would immediately appeal. the government is not just looki...

To him. it belong to the united states government. should have been deposited with the national archives when he left office, and the national archives was trying to get it back starting may of 2001. and then at one point was told you could come pick up the stuff in january, and they took out 15 boxes. but now, we learn 11,000 more documents were not given. and i think that underscores part of the predicate for saying that there was evidence of obstruction at the -- at mar-a-lago, which we saw i...

Steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. to the states now. donald trump has reacted angrily to accusations by the usjustice department that his advisers "likely concealed" classified documents, found in an fbi search of his home in florida this month. the former president suggested that agents had staged a photo of papers strewn across the floor. thejustice departments court filing offers the clearest picture so far of what drove the fbi to carry out the search of his property. it also says that whil...

>> what do you think? >> espionage and the espionage act, it is not mundane. it is a highly unusual charge, an extraordinary charge and absolutely stunning charge to be leveled potentially a president of the united states. it just does not happen every day. it squarely falls within subsection 3793 of the espionage act, which basically says that if you have national defence information and the government ask for it back, youve got to give it back or you are committing a crime. as for the other cr...

That, it accused the team trump of obstruction by lying to investigators about the documents at mar-a-lago. but the response last night has nothing to do with that. what does that suggest? >> he really didnt address any of the very damning evidence that was in the department of justice reply. here we have not only did they say that there was obstruction of justice, but they said that these documents had been concealed and removed. and then they find these documents not only in the storage room w...

Steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. donald trump has reacted angrily to accusations by the usjustice department that his advisers "likely concealed" classified documents, found in an fbi search of his home in florida this month. the former president suggested that agents had staged a photo of papers strewn across the floor. thejustice departments court filing offers the clearest picture so far of what drove the fbi to carry out the search of his property. it also says that while mr trumps lawyers...

Lawyers and this custodian that everything was turned over turned out to be false. that can be viewed as obstruction of a governmental investigation. very serious crime under federal law. >> david, the consistent argument by trump has been, i declassified these in a sweeping manner before i left office. but his lawyers didnt argue that in this filing. i wonder how significant that is. >> the lawyers didnt argue that, and they said in the most recent motion that will be discussed today, that we w...

The obstruction to justice? that was the big question when the affidavit in support of the search warrant was unsealed last week and it was heavily redacted, of course. there were clear violations of the two previous acts but we didnt know what the basis for the obstruction ofjustice probable obstruction of justice probable cause obstruction ofjustice probable cause was. there was some speculation that may be it was related to the congressional january six committee because they had subpoenaed t...

Investigated under, including obstruction and espionage act as mundane. take a listen. >> those are the biggest secrets in the road, why would he -- apparently, the former president went through them in january, why wouldnt he say, you know what, i really need to turned up back? -- >> sorry, that was the fox & friends this morning. that was kristi noem being asked by steve doocy, why would you do this? here is the presidents lawyer earlier today. take a listen. >> they say themselves in these pa...

Espionage act and lawful concealment or removal of government records. criminal investigation of who? and you would think the former presidents defenders might, just might take all of this somewhat seriously? well, then you would think wrong. one of his attorneys calling espionage and obstruction quote mundane statutes. >> what they did was to try and criminalize donald trump as they always do and found three mundane statutes espionage and two others, obstruction and trying to claim there was so...