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Documents, the evidence that the doj says they have that documents were concealed and removed and obstruction. when you read that, that there were even three documents in the 45 office, what do you think? >> well, im just thinking, why are these documents there to begin with? i feel like the documents admits that the documents were there now, right? and thats what im thinking. so, they didnt give them back the first time. i feel like its one lie after another. while i think they pulled back the ...

Signing off and they found all of the goods at mar-a-lago. in response, they were afforded, the trump lawyers were supposed to file a reply brief last night. that means youre supposed to reply to what the government said. it didnt reply to what the government said. there was virtually no discussion of the facts whatsoever. and with respect to the law in need for a special master, they never explained what a special master would do at this point besides simply delay the investigation. so joe is r...

Based on what weve radar into justice department filing and everything that has been made public, does that look like to you where perhaps merrick garland, where justice is headed here, at least as a first step, that, yes, donald trump obstructed our ability to get these documents back. >> yes and no. so, yes, i think obstruction is simple and easy to prove now. the governments filings a couple of days ago lays out a really clear case for obstruction of grand jury proceedings. donald trump was s...

Those presidents never took anything like that with them. but the trump argument is pretty normal. >> it is absurd. you even heard it from karl rove who said these are not his documents. these were documents that belong to you and me, to all of us. right? these are public documents. and they should never have been put on a truck and sent to mar-a-lago. and one of the things that theyre doing is -- first of all, theyre airing some of the former presidents grievances saying that the fbi is biased ...

Because this was a clear-cut case of obstruction. and they believed this was a building block. this was -- this was basically an ace in their back pocket that they could have to start the building of the case. but the fact is theyre actually working on a much larger case. this is just the first step in that case. >> i guess i disagree a bit with that. im not sure what more significant or larger case means. i definitely think that the justice department has been evaluating donald trumps royal in ...

Had been declassified? >> yeah, they have net to make that assertion in court. the justice department pointed out in their filing the other night, they never actually raised that back in june when they were there, and so they pointed that out. the other thing that they have not really confronted, pamela, is the allegation from the justice department, the prosecutors, that there was -- that they have evidence of obstruction. keep in mind that there was a subpoena that was served to the former pre...

M mueller invecvestigation and i e mixed views, four of five occasions of clear obstruction of justice, the only thing that stopped him was the legal memo that said that you cant indict a sitting president. there is no question there was obstruction of justice so if you have a case where there are clear violations of the law for a united states senator to say well i dont care about that, this guy is very popular, that sounds to me like a banana republic where youre not -- you can say look, you g...

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Not being candid about answers and potentially moving evidence and not being forthright with justice department officials. the trump team filed a 19-page response to the government last night. the word obstruction or obstruct was not mentioned once in that document. today here at federal court the focus is on the special master. for those who have not followed, the special master is a neutral third party arbiter to come in, look at some of the evidence taken from mar-a-lago and potentially retur...

They would speak vaguely but they werent very good at it. sometimes they barely tipped over the line of being classified and those records were, in fact, excuse me, classified. but in my view those records, there was nothing that would expose intelligence sources, nothing that would expose collection methods. at most, there might be minor diplomatic kerfuffle created but nothing on par with what weve seen from the pictures from mar-a-lago where you have top-secret classification markings on the ...