appointed to investigate classified documents that were discovered at former vice president and likely presidential candidate mike pence s house, right? documents returned according to an adviser for the former vice president mike pence. aides to former vice president mike pence found a, quote, small number of documents bearing classified markings during a search of pence s indiana home. according to the archives and the fbi collected the classified documents from the home on january 19th. the discovery comes as a shock, sort of. given that pence stated over and over again since his former boss s home was searched by federal officials after he failed to turn over classified documents to the national archives that he, mike pence, did not take any classified documents with him. this is what mike pence said when asked about it to cbs s robert costa just over ten days ago. he was asked a specific question, did you take any classified documents with you? watch. our staff reviewe
so andrew, obviously i m posing a theoretical. but wasn t this the slippery slope, the standard created by lumping together the one that isn t like any of the others, the trump criminal investigation by having the same person called the same thing investigate both? you just can t have a special counsel every single time a issue comes up. you have to remember, it is not a crime to have classified documents in your possession if you don t know it. it can be a mistake. it can be something that raises the national security issues. but it s not always worthy of a criminal investigation. so there is one thing that merrick garland could do here. and that is he could go the
voters or in some cases, rare cases the governor, but that s just not going to happen, right? he s not running for re-election. his term ends december 31st. so there is going to be a new da on january 1st. that gives us every indication that he wants to make this decision in advance and six months from now when this grand jury expires, he will still be the da. so i do think that he is pushing for that decision. i will say that new york grand juries are more cumbersome than federal grand juries. neal and andrew are right they re very powerful. but they also generally can t can t receive hearsay evidence. they have to hear things, you know, directly from the mouths of witnesses, which in federal courts it was a huge advantage when i was a federal prosecutor to be able to put an agent on the stand and present a case that s pretty complex in two or three hours based on the investigation they did. in state court, we have to present the actual witness, so it is kind of a big deal. and they
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sees some of his family members may also be exposed to criminal charges. that could be the lever that convinces him to cooperate. barbara, your views of what it means to have this grand jury of new yorkers, of donald trump s peers. he famously relocated to florida, but he s been in new york a long time. he s been the president. he s well known and polarizing. what does it mean under the requirements of justice to get that grand jury to look only at the evidence, although it is a very different structure than a traditional jury, but to get it to look at the evidence and not be swayed one way or the other by any potential political views? i think it s a very significant step in the investigation. we have known for a long time that cy vance has been gathering documents to try to see whether he believed there were any criminal offenses that were committed. but to take this step of convening the grand jury means he believes there is some factual predication to believe