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Correspondent ryan riley. so you have the doc. what does it tell you? >> well, we have three things going on here. there is a -- i'm going to read them off here. so there is a u.s. code 2071 which is concealment, removal or mutilation. there is a 793 which is gathering transmitting or losing national defense information and then there is 1519, destruction or alteration or falsification of documents in federal investigations. so those are the three items that we now know that the former president of the united states was under suspicion for, for violating those laws. and there is a whole list, ...

So that assumption i think is well founded. but the news accounts income accounts incomethis is not abou, but the presidential records act. the archivist can ask the attorney general to intervene when someone is not complying, including a former president by turning over material. we know that material was taken previously two months ago. now, putting all of that together we're still speculating as to what the federal judge signed off here as probable cause of a crime. there are provisions, like section 2071, which allows for three years in prison for people who knowingly conceal information t...

>> all right. norm eisen, the reporting from kaitlan here that this raid, this fbi operation is in relation to the handling of presidential documents, including possibly classified documents, why might that merit an fbi operation like this at the home of a former president? >> well, john, in america, nobody is above the law, and the federal laws are very clear that anybody who removes, mutilates, or destroys records, it's 18 usc 2071, is subject to penalties, including criminal penalties. there's even more strict rules for classified documents being removed from official premises because of th...

Usc, 2071 provides in addition to a three-year potential prison term for concealing or destroying documents, the person who is convicted cannot hold office again. so i think this is probably a moment for donald trump who teflon don who has never really seen any accountability over his entire personal and professional career and pushed every constitutional legal boundary you could conceive of, in this moment for the first time is seeing the wheels of justice push back against him and i think what this demonstrates as your other guests have explained is that merrick garland is willing to carry t...

Things like that, we don't know if that's just a guess and you can see why they would have the authority to search every space, every drawer, every safe, every closet, every desk. that might contain those documents. >> norm eisen, the reporting from kaitlan here that this fbi operation is in relation to handling the presidential documents, including possibly classified documents. why might that merit an fbi operation like this at the home of the former president? >> well, john, in america, nobody is above the law. the federal laws are very clear. that anybody who removes, mutilates, or destroy...