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Another country or defense department documents about our capabilities are in no universe donald j. trump's personal documents. if even half of it is true, then he's toast. i mean, it's a pretty -- it's a very detailed indictment, and it's very, very damning. and this idea of presenting trump as a victim here, a victim of a witch hunt, is ridiculous. >> so i think we can dipence with the idea it's a witch hunt. let's talk about the espionage act itself. let's put it on the screen. this is usc 793. whoever having authorized possession of documents, willfully transmits or attends to transmit or ...

Used to go after traitors and spies. it has nothing to do with a former president, legally keeping his own documents, which just about every other president has done. >> what's the truth here, dishonesty there, jake, in a few words. these were not his own documents under the presidential records act. they legally belong to the federal government the moment he left office. it is not true that just about every other president has done this, he's the only president in the presidential records act era to take sensitive documents to his home and club and refuse to give them back when asked. and thi...

Whole host of provisions. one of which is spying for a foreign power like alger james or robert hanson who recently passed away. ironically we see this both on the left extremism side in support of julian assange and ed snowden where that side decries, oh, they've been prosecuted or charged under the espionage act, this isn't espionage. yet now we see it on the right. it has nothing to do espionage in the formal james bond sense other than the statute is called the espionage act. this is, as is made clear in 793e, the charge he has been assessed with, it has to do with unlawful retention of na...

President, was still authorized to have t so that key law the 793, the espionage act which is the biggest charge here, what prosecutors determined they had to do was bring the case here, which is where mar-a-lago is located, and of course that brings some challenges for prosecutors. this is a -- probably a friendlier venue for the former president, certainly more friendly than the venue of washington, d.c. where most of the grand jury testimony was being taken. so we'll see in the coming days and weeks how this shakes out for prosecutors. it's definitely a change from what they initially thoug...

The lady doth protest too much methinks why is it the first thing on jack smith's mind is tried to claim this is the equal application of the law because he knows it doesn't it's going to be open to that kind of protest right away the indictment itself is a speaking indictment for public consumption it's a clever but very sick attempt at putting forward their position. i said last night that almost facetiously that they would charge under 18 usc 793 would not have to confront the classified document or declassified issue and in the indictment they allege classified classified classified but th...