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Audience, is it takes worth of the abstract, war still in, abstraction its maps its nato is things like that. talking to ukrainians brought it out of the obstruction, for our viewers. but i think the opposite was true, at the ukrainians learned that the world cares about them. that the world cares about democracy. in the early days they were asking for help and over and over again, it may not be with everybody in ukraine wanted, but they got it. they got europe to sanction russia on oil. they go...

Dont be surprised if they actually decide, you know what? this is tough. and maybe not worth the risk. were gonna go with the obstruction charge, which still fascinates me by the way. and, charge for obstructing the case, and try not to get even into the highly sensitive information. which would be the espionage charge. >> its always interesting to me harry, because you and frank will look from the same issue from different vantage point. so i want to hear your legal take on the question. and i ...

Beyond simply pieces of paper. trump side trying to make it out to be these real lives. my colleague julian barnes supporting the caa saying i noticed in the last year or 2 various stations expressing concern that the number of informants had met with that fates. i know they are not connected with that just shows how concerned the intelligence agencies are when theyre human informants or put at risk. we dont have enough information to judge whether that has happened in this case. a lot of the do...

Home. the affidavit states the trump team turned over nearly 200 documents with classifications markings on it to the national archives and record administration. earlier this year the fbi claimed it had probable cause to believe additional classified documents were at trumps home and that the bureaus search will likely find evidence of obstruction. all this despite president trump saying that he declassified all of the documents found in mar-a-lago. approximately 20 of the 38 pages in the affid...

Carrie cordero, melanie zanona and alex burns of the "new york times." carrie, theres a lot in the affidavit that fills in some blanks about what was going on leading up to this search of the former presidents residence. but what might actually loom over all of this is the part about obstruction. heres what the "new york times" writes about that. but some measures the crime of obstruction is -- is as or even more serious a threat to mr. trump or his close associates. to convict someone of obstru...

Significant number, to quote their papers, of civilian witnesses, meaning they have more than one, more than two people on the inside who were providing them with information. and we know doj is focused on obstruction here whether its threats and harm to potential witnesses or whether documents were misplaced or taken out of their rightful place, tampered, altered. theres quite a bit we learned from this affidavit even with all that redactioning. >> what comes next, elie, in all of this? >> well...

Justify the search that we heard about two weeks ago. jessica, to that point, a major point that was mostly redacted in the affidavit was on page 26. and it says there is probable cause to believe that documents contain classified ndi and presidential records remain at the premises. and of course they were right about it. they got a dozen more boxes on august 8th. and even though on june 3rd, the dates are in order, on june 3rd, christina bobb, trumps attorney, said all classified material had a...

>> its a good point. the overlap as you mentioned there, you can imagine circumstances where a clandestine foreign source is so sensitive that it would also be restricted from sharing with foreign allies and also require the approval of the agency, say the cia who collected it. these details matter. carrie, from a legal standpoint as we mentioned, the affidavit said that a search would likely find, quote, evidence of obstruction. obviously as with intelligence, theres a lot we dont know from the...

Unredacted parts of this affidavit really give us the glimpses of how investigators are building their case on all three of those. so we see how extensive the classified information was that they retrieved in january and how it did cover in fact national defense information, which is in this willful retention statute. you know, the affidavit, you mentioned it, laura, refers several times to obstruction, saying that these investigators believed in fact they would find evidence of obstruction at m...

And more. were going to dig into what that really means. and what does the justice department mean when it says there are, quote, a significant number of civilian witnesses? just what did they know and what does that number mean and what is the context and how did they help this investigation? the former president cant possibly be taking this well. people in his midst were talking to investigators? im going to get into that too. then after our journalists, im going to talk to our legal and inves...