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Received them as the president, classified or not but thats not with the presidential record access, is it? >> not at all. keep in mind when you talk about the presidential records act you are talking about a series of laws defining what a presidential records to how it has to be maintained and under what circumstances information can be excluded. we are talking about these broad statutes its best to understand them through analogy. when a doctor is treating a patient in a hospital, a doctor act...

Doesnt exist. this is not espionage. >> these are lawyers, so they know what theyre saying is crap. but explain to us about the espionage act. >> okay. so there is a set of statutes under federal criminal law generally known as the espionage statutes. within those -- and those are the statutes under which individuals who actually engage in espionage, spying for foreign governments, that is the set of laws that theyre charged under. it also has a set of provisions of law that individuals who are ...

Documents under the presidential records act because those are his presidential records and he received them as the president, classified or not but thats not with the presidential record access, is it? >> not at all. keep in mind when you talk about the presidential records act you are talking about a series of laws defining what a presidential records to how it has to be maintained and under what circumstances information can be excluded. we are talking about these broad statutes its best to u...

Fundamental importance of the espionage act and other national security statutes. it looks as if donald trump could be facing an extremely serious prosecution on those rounds. and yet, they are defending him without even looking confidence or waiting for the trial to happen. that is a remarkable thing to me. if they think this statute shouldnt exist, it should come out and say that. >> congressman, good to see. thank, you sir, for your dallas is as always. congressman jamie raskin of maryland. m...

Bore a consciousness of his own guilt and taking these documents and trying to hide these documents, moving them around, ordering that their existence and his possession of them be clouded in different ways. all of that is laid out in meticulous, painstaking detail in the indictment. all of it is about the protection of national security of the united states. i dont know whether or not at this point donald trump and the gop wants to make a sweeping, broadside attack on the national security stat...

Have problems on this. case ive already had issues with the chief judge and other members of the 11th circuit. i want to get off this case. >> katie phang its alicica menendez. -- it takes all the lawyers on this network not to specifically name statutes when there are talking about the law. not that theyve been talking to other lawyers. the other thing i heard about the possibility of moving doj, doj moving to recuse cannon, it would just take time. they know that time is of the essence here. i...

Case for taking a very aggressive position on a statute. you know, the interplay between the presidential records act which says all documents are covered by that act and the espionage act which preceded it and was passed in 1917, about four months into world war i, i think, is going to be the most important issue that the courts are going to have to decide. and as ive read both those statutes, ive thought about the interplay, ive thought about all the other cases that have been brought with urn...

There is classified information, protection act requirements that have statutes in place. that allowed donald trumps lawyers to be able to see national security, or theoretically we exposed to not security information. there is ways to get around that so that it is not disseminated to council on the case. >> i unfortunately amount of time. but i do want you to come back very soon because i do want to get into the substance of this indictments and post the arraignment on tuesday which im really g...

A bathroom, ballroom is that very bad judgement? >> no doubt about it. >> you have issues. >> if those allegations are true. by the way, the reason we have a court of law and i am deeply skeptical of everything in that indictment and i will not believe it until we see it aired in a court of law and the reason i dont believe it, dana is a selective omission of a bunch of other facts that should have been in that indictment and statutes that were mentioned nowhere they personally have no faith wha...

Which again trump allegedly stored in a bathroom, ballroom, bedroom. is that more than just bad judgment? >> it is very bad judgment no doubt about it. >> so you do have issues with that. >> i do, if those allegations are true. by the way the reason we have a court of law and i am personally deeply skeptical of everything in that indictment so i will not believe it until we actually see it aired in a court of law. the reason i dont believe it, dana, is the selective omission of a bunch of other ...