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House in the early 70s, but that rule wasnt really tested at that time. that rule wasnt really tested until almost 50 years down the road, till our time in the history books. hooray for us. it was three years ago, 2019, when special counsel robert mueller completed the report of his investigation into russia interfering in our presidential election in 2016 to help the trump campaign. that was what volume one of muellers report was about. and then volume two of muellers report was about obstructi...

Attorney general bill barr. a d.c. circuit court now telling us that there was more to the story of the department of justice manual memo in which barr concluded there was not enough evidence to charge trump with obstruction. heres a bar said back in 2019. >> the special counsels report states that, quote this investigation did not establish that members of the trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the russian government and its election interference activities. >> he couldnt decide about...

Jeopardy itself because she apparently signed the document sent to the doj saying that there are no more classified documents in the possession of donald trump at mar-a-lago. that could put her in the crosshairs of doj under section 1519 obstruction. and so things are not going well for their legal team and i think because of the delay, they have lost this argument. they could have made the argument at the beginning, but by waiting this long, the horse is already out of the barn. >> but isnt thi...

Were trying to escape the building essentially when one member of the security detail says he actually made eye contact with joshua pruett, the member of the proud boys and, in fact, he could hear joshua pruett as he got closer and he said he felt like they were being chased. now, another member of that security detail identified in the paper only by his initials ml said that he was the one who believed pruett was only four to five seconds away. he also wrote a letter to the court, ill read a li...

Obstruction charge? probably not. but i think that was the intent behind the message. >> page, how about the request for a special master. we had elie honig, sift through the documents and see what can be returned to the trump team, but how much would this delay the process, how much would it gum up the works. >> thats a great question, and now its not highly unusual to ask for a special master in a situation where the fbis seized a bunch of documents and the person who they were seized from is ...

The search warrant. as we know magistrate judge bruce reinhart approved that search warrant on the basis of reviewing an affidavit that the rest of us have not yet seen. however, you ask why would he want them back? i think the answer, at least to me as a person who studies the justice department, is fairly obvious. he wants them back because of the one set of hands he does not want them in is that of the fbi. if he cant have them maybe nara should but the fbi and the department of justice shoul...

Here, and if so, for whom? >> absolutely. we saw three statute cited in the warrant that gave rise to the mar-a-lago search. that is espionage, unlawful taking of these documents, as well as obstruction. under the presidential records act, the day a president leaves office, all of that stuff belongs to the american people. now this is getting ratcheted up well beyond that. that is there a criminal laws that kick in if this kind of material is taken by anyone, and were not talking one document. i...

Its about concealment of document records, and espionage and that can include the willful retention of national defense information. importantly here, one of the statutes they were justifying under was obstruction of justice. this is concealment of evidence pertinent to an investigation. and that tells you going back to harrys point about what they saw likely saw on the tape and what they understood to be happening behind the scenes. the obstruction piece is really the most problematic here. bec...

0 >> that was mitch mcconnell last year and now mitch mcconnell is publicly pessimistic about republicans winning the senate because too many republican candidates support donald trumps attack on our democracy. that is tonights last word 11th hour stephanie ruhle starts now. more than 300 classified documents at mar-a-lago. that is the breaking news from the new york times tonight. and the former president sues the department of justice for the mar-a-lago search. some of the presidents legal arg...

On january 6 fears another attack fueled by the violent rhetoric. the sergeant initialledly ct in the court document had a victim pact state in the case of josh eya pruitt. he pleaded gilley there june to a felony counts to obstruction of a official proceeding. he smashed a sign inside of the capitol, tossed a chair in the direction of officers and came into close contact with then senate minority leader chuck schumer as his security detail rushed him to safety while rioters were ransacking offi...