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In its application for a search warrant for mark mar-a-lago, obstruction of a federal investigation so, there is an active question about well whether or not the stuff andersen and enron did 20 years ago, is akin to what donald trump has been doing with his new criminal investigation. is it the same kind of obstruction? you know, the illegal kind? >> what is clear is that donald trump certainly have some explaining to do. for starters, we learned from the unsealed search warrant documents that t...

Dont belong to him anyway and the sensitivity of these documents are so high. were even learning that some of these documents we can tell just by the classifications of these that they could out very sensitive information, including human intelligence sources for u.s. intelligence placed around the world in dangerous situations. and if those names got out, those placements got out, that could not only put their lives in danger, it could also seriously harm american national security interests. t...

Obviously we dont know. but its not true that everything was turned over, not even close. thats whats important about this filing last night, which emphasizes something we also saw in the last filing last week. this is not just a question about whether laws were violated. its an investigation into possible criminal obstruction. not, oh gosh, we just took some documents we shouldnt have had or we had documents we disagreed on whether hes allowed to have it or its declassified. what the justice de...

Now go to a really clear picture of an 18 usc 2001 violation. we heard about them in the mueller investigation and they have to do with lying to federal investigators or obstructing an investigation and this affidavit or excuse me this filing really makes it clear that not only are we discussing obstruction in the first instance with respect to the underlying crime that the affidavit put forth to get the search warrant, which was the initial mishandling, seizing, absconding with classified infor...

Had any sort of an ownership interest in these documents. laying out a very clear legal picture explaining why these documents belonged to the american people, even documents that arent classified that all of these records need to be returned to the government. but as you say, alex, going a step further and laying out a very clear case for obstruction, doj stopped short of laying it in the lap of the former president. its a little bit of an open question. is it the responsibility of the lawyer w...

Obstruction of justice emerges as key focus of ongoing federal probe into former presidents handling of classified records.

The concealment of government records and other obstructive measures are factors that "usually lead to criminal prosecution," a DOJ veteran said.

Club, but they lied and the national archives tried for more than a year to get the documents back. they had to put pressure on it. were going to call congress. were going to escalate this. and finally, they got some of them back. what we saw from the filing overnight. theres even more obstruction from the trump lawyers saying were not giving them back. all of the people defending donald trump its worth pointing out theyre the same ones literally chanting for hillary clinton to be put in prison ...

Documents. and the attorney christina bobb have been so uncooperative to lead agents to expect that the trump team might be obstructing the investigation. what stood out to you as you read this last night? >> thats right, willie. this is the most significant rebuttal weve seen from the justice department to the trump team. i think were learning more from this than we ever did from the warrant or the affidavit that we were waiting for last week. now, were learning this is not just a matter of the...

Former conservative media host Christina Bobb is part of former President Donald Trumps team of legal representatives who may have sought to conceal and remove classified government documents stored in a hidden room at Trumps Florida estate, according to court filings from the Justice Department.