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In the context of a broader investigation into the former president surrounding the attempt to overlook the election and finally, the classified information issue, of course, classified information mishandling is a crime. doj takes that very seriously. if there is classified information involved, i would expect doj to take a look at that but there are some problems with that as well. >> yeah, definitely. so the other bizarre aspect of it, in an upcoming book coming up by maggie haberman reportin...

Believed that these voting machines needed to be seized to be protected so they could prove fraud. these people are true believers and i have to give credit to my colleagues emma brown and john swain who did the heavy lifting on this pretty bonkers story. >> giuliani did go to law school, right? he did actually -- >> he was a lawyer at one point, a functioning mayor. willie geist, jump in. >> peter baker, we are just getting in the last few minutes as this conversation goes on an excerpt from ma...

Such highly classified information, the two people familiar with the matter said, end quote, and because of this there may be two new investigations on the horizon to look further into donald trumps conduct. the national archives has asked the justice department to investigate how the trump white house handle would its record it is. in addition to that, the house oversight committee said it would launch probe to how those boxes ended up in mar-a-lago without anyones knowledge for more than a yea...

This is coming from an upcoming book by "new york times" reporter maggie haberman. lets listen to what she told cnn this morning. >> i learned that staff in the white house residence would periodically find the toilet clogged, the engineer would have to come and fix it and what the engineer would find would be wads of clumped up printed paper, you know, meaning it was not toilet paper. this was either notes or some other piece of paper that, you know, they believe that he had thrown down the toi...

Axios is reporting that "new york times" reporter maggie haberman writes in a forth coming book that the white house staff periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet. and believed trump was to blame. while nbc news hasnt independently verified this, it sure seems to shed some light on moments like these. >> i wont use the example of toilets because it is sort of gross, right? but lets use it anyway. so no water comes out. so people are flushing it seven, eight, ten, 12 times...

Residence were clearly marked as classified, including documents at the top secret level, according to two people familiar with the matter. the existence of clearly marked classified documents in the trove which has not been previously reported is going to intensify the legal pressure that trump or his staffers could face and raises new questions as to why the materials were taken out of the white house. the first reports of donald trump ripping up documents appeared in 2018 in politico. this we...

Office, staff in the white house residence periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet and believed the president had flushed pieces of paper. believed the president had flushed pieces of paper. >> thats vivid. >> it is just stunning the idea that, you know, not keeping records according to norms in the presidential records act and at least the suggestion there, that the former president of the united states was -- knew what he was doing. trying to destroy records. >> right. ...

Mar-a-lago last month, leaving the national archives to ask the department of justice to investigate trumps handling of his records. as nbc news reported yesterday. nbc news has not independently verified "the new york times" reporting, and the doj has declined to comment. but questions about how the former president handled his records have come under more scrutiny today. axios was provided with an exclusive look at the hotly anticipated book about trump by "new york times" white house correspo...

>> people are flushing ten times, 15 times, as opposed to once. >> yes, its all starting to add up. consider the latest revelation from maggie haberman. he writes that trump would repeatedly tear up sensitive white house documents and attempt to flush them down the toilet. white house engineers reportedly found wads of paper clogging the system. i know what youre thinking. the jokes write themselves. did they find the constitution or the long awaited healthcare plan jamming up the pipes? its as ...

That mean legally? one of the things that made the justice department an extremely interesting place to cover during the trump administration was not just all the weird factual circumstances that seemed to unfold all day every day, but also all the unprecedented legal messes that lawyers at doj had to sift through. and this is one in a long chain of those messes. i think that we can say with total confidence though that it is something that attorneys at the justice department will have to look a...