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Commence an official proceeding. here, thats not in 15 19 at all. as you correctly said, it just has to be something that the administration, that agency or department of the united states. so that fix is something the department of taking advantage of. >> it could be a fix for donald trump. lets just start with the documents that we are waiting for at this hour, right? and it pertains to all these claims about cooperation, and obstruction. the doj is going to file 40 pages of paper, warsaw resp...

Adversary potentially, if you bring your phone in, can then themselves take pictures or over here things. i mean, we are talking about very wicked and ingenious adversaries. and, you know, documents strewn around on the floor just leave you, you know, incomplete cold sweat thinking about it. but to get your question, it does not matter. the crime here, the obstruction is, he took them, he knew he did not have a right to take them, he lied about havent giving them all up. thats the -- when he kne...

US prosecutors said Trump representatives obstructed justice by concealing and removing government records during a search of the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Watch this indicates is that there were boxes that were inside the storage room, in the basement of mar-a-lago, the the justice department and the agents had set eyes on. apparently were subsequently removed from that room and then did not come back. so we previously reported the they obtained footage, surveillance footage, from that area in mar-a-lago. so perhaps that is what they are referring to here. they also say they have witnesses who told them specifically that there were documents elsew...

Justice department. and i think it is not only the most damning, its the piece of information that puts him in the most legal jeopardy. i think if you had a case where a former president had taken documents either by mistake or willingly and they were found to be classified and that former president then returned them to the engovernment, it would be vy hard for the government to make a g criminal case with that setf facts. but when you have the facts as theyre laid out in this pleading, wheren ...

Is this more about delaying tactics, buying time as the doj appears to be saying? because, on the other side of this, trumps team and his allies keep saying, oh, this is political. this is rightly the november midterms. but this couldve been resolved many months ago. couldnt it? if the trump team had wanted to. >> absolutely. this case is the creation of donald trump and company. they, one, did not have to take these documents with them. and to, when requested of, them they couldve given them al...

Hard it is to prove intent. its the hardest thing to prove in these types of cases. not that someone did something, but that some someone did something intentionally. but when you cover that thing up, when you lie about that thing, when you conceal that thing from the department of justice and the fbi, it tends to prove intent. if it was a genuine mistake, you would say immediately, oh my goodness, stephanie, my bad, i realized that i had a whole bunch of classified information in my basement, h...

Documents in a certain location but now, judge, we need to search all these different locations within the premises. and your doj saying thats whats happening. they were concerned about potential instruction, documents removed, who knows what was done with them. but this is why one of the three listed crimes was obstruction. i think we have a little more detail on that. >> evan i want to go ahead, but julie, i can hear something in the back at ground. you said its a big deal. >> right. i called ...

And then the department, and asking for the 40 pages, said that they will respond to the law and the facts. the law, i think everyone has been talking about how there is not a lot of law to support what it is the trump asking for. everyone is focusing on the facts. so as you said, the issue of donald trump saying that it was continuously cooperating, it is one that i would hope to see some reputation of that. and then the other is, what exactly happened in june of this year, at that meeting in m...

Decision, typically in these cases there has to be some sort of aggravating factor. i think the aggravating factor here is the idea there was an interference with an ongoing investigation. that seems to be what theyre solely focused on. i think that getting back the documents was an important component of this investigation, but clearly from the filing last night, thats not solely what this is about. this wasnt only about getting those documents that belong to the government back. this was about...