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Thats complete baloney. we know that attorneys and agents of the former president, going back into last year, were trying to recover the boxes of documents that he stole from the white house, saying these are records, you are not allowed to have them, we need them back. and after months and months and months of not producing that material, he finally produces some. his attorney signs an attestation to the department of justice, weve given you back every piece of classified information. and then ...

And i think we are seeing from all we have talked about today, why we need to cancel the show as opposed to the reality. meaning, if this was, reality they wouldve been in that courtroom asking. instead of doing what william barr did about the mueller report. take the narrative. so there was no collusion. when in fact the. rays say there was no obstruction. when the case proves that there is. >> well, we appreciate you both. charles coleman in jill wine-banks, thank you both very very much. up n...

The provide more information. i think just this week, one lie, willful retention of national defense information was released in a set of documents that led to days of coverage. this affidavit will have hundreds, maybe thousands have lines that will be parsed, even with redactions. >> and it is not your concern that youre saying the theory of the case might be exposed and it would compromise what is an ongoing investigation. thats what the doj has been arguing. >> i am concerned anyone who has d...

That is the fourth amendment. >> usually this is a thing that we are not so privy to. in this case, we are privy to everything. brian, let me ask you, when you hear potential obstruction with respect to these classified documents, what does that tell you from a national security perspective? >> again, im going to go back towards this. it is hard to figure this out right now. the instruction charge can go in different directions. previous guests were seeing that as well. i look at it, i want to a...

I dont think it is a wish that is going to come to fruition. >> you are hearing in your article about the hearing, you quoted the counter intelligence official who said, another factor is the threat of possible obstruction and interference in the investigation. in many cases, thats purely theoretical. in this case, the court has found probable cause that there was a abaya lay shun of one of the obstruction statutes and that evidence of the obstruction can be found in the redacted version of the ...

Play that mark was talking about. i think something happened between june and when the search warrant was executed that tipped off the fbi to realize that things were being purposely, i think thats the key here, the intent. purposely keeping these documents from the national archives and from requests to turn them in. i think that is really the issue. the issue boils down to really be intent in the situation. if they were actively being moved, then that is absolutely obstruction. >> quickly mark...

Of rhetoric and violence that we see in reaction to the search warrant against the fbi. that is unprecedented. -- they carry over into real world action. nashville we saw on the fbi in cincinnati. a startling outcome from this turn of events. >> yes. absolutely. thursdays hearing on releasing the affidavit, the doj lawyer argued that it should stay under wraps. he said, quote, another factor is the threat of possible obstruction interference in the investigation. he added that in this case, the ...

That the government had gotten anything you want it in june. obviously, the government didnt and came back with a search warrant. just what happened in a period of time we dont know. what he did say in open court was that this affidavit is fairly extensive. it draws on lots of grand jury testimony and witnesses. there is, apparently, lots of information there that can be clean. also, it warned that if this information was blocked out in an insufficient way, someone could find out who these witne...

What specific incident prompted this search? what raised alarms for the doj? who got too close to the declassified info at this point? >> i think that trump and his attorneys are saying that they dont know what prompted this search, they need more information. that is one of the central questions here. it is gonna be at the heart of the trump team defense. what exactly prompted this? who was involved? more dangerously, if the names of witnesses come out in an affidavit, if they come out in other...

Retention. here is what i make of it. they did the espionage act. some people were thinking about that. they did 15 19 obstruction. that took a lot of people by surprise. what happened? i think it is clear now. they were asked, and this is a small part of the many factors of the espionage act and what it could cover, they were asked to give it all back. they refused. in this case, i think they lied. that is the language. somebody willfully retains a document that could hurt national security and...