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Weaponized because of the fact that they conducted that search of mar-a-lago. so, a lot of the republicans are even admitting and i think comer did to jake tapper, that it is not so much the classified documents they're concerned about, they think that there has been some unequal treatment. but there is a very valid reason from officials, from doj officials, from the fbi, why there was different treatment. because of the fact that president biden's lawyer so far appear to be cooperating and immediately sending back documents. and that is not what trump and his team did. they withheld for more ...

In public, which is a multi-month process by which the justice department was trying to negotiate with trump to give back documents, which he refused to do, and then there was a warrant that seized them -- whether or not there's evidence in those documents of additional criminal behavior besides holding them improperly. if there is additional evidence of criminal behavior hidden in those documents and there's a sense that trump knew that and that's why he was withholding it, i expect the justice department would be hard-pressed not to charge him criminally. >> time will tell as you say. michae...

Because he simply did not make the showing that he needed to make in order to have these documents held back. it's a balancing test when you're talking about executive privilege, the right of a president to hold back documents. and you've got to show an overwhelming, compelling need for each individual document. and sometimes even a paragraph for a line on a document to be held back, and he just failed to do it. so once again, trump was brought down by lousy lawyering. >> of course we did come close to something much worse happening january 6th. let's talk about the contents of what's happenin...

It's a little more insidious and harder to see. so i'm glad to hear a prosecutor say she's going to go where evidence takes her and not be bothered by fact this man used to sit in oval office. hope she adheres to that pledge. >> talk about national archives having to go to mar-a-lago to take back documents. he routinely ripped up documents. >> donald trump was a lawless president. you know, kim was just talking about the threat from the inside to the united states. donald trump was the leader of that threat. and he did not care about the presidential records act. routinely destroyed documents....

At the ukrainian border, that's taking over a country from the outside. we understand that. when america, with donald trump and those around him, cronies in congress and others, what's happening is takedown of the country from the inside-out. it's a little more insidious and harder to see. so i'm glad to hear a prosecutor say she's going to go where evidence takes her and not be bothered by fact this man used to sit in oval office. hope she adheres to that pledge. >> talk about national archives having to go to mar-a-lago to take back documents. he routinely ripped up documents. >> donald trum...