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state department is rejecting steve bannon's sudden willingness to testify before the january 6th committee days before his criminal contempt trial is set to begin. bannon produced a letter from donald trump, trump saying he is waiving executive privilege so bannon can testify. here's the thing, the committee and most legal analysts say no privilege existed in this case to begin with. what's more, federal prosecutors argue, trump never invoked executive privilege here. so, this doj court filing also reveals that former president trump's attorney justin clark was interviewed by fbi in...

astonishing. it's unprecedented. but don't take my word for it. listen to the former attorney general, bill barr, who was on fox news today. that's right, fox. >> let me just say, i think the driver on this from the beginning was loads of classified information sitting in mar-a-lago. people say this was unprecedented. well, it's also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put it in a country club, okay? and how long is the government going to try to get that back? you know, they jawbone for a year. they were deceived on the voluntary actions taken. ...

mixed in with a mess of whole other stuff. >> i find that odd. some kind affjunk drawer happening because, look, some of the nation's most important secrets potentially -- and again we don't know what is in these documents. we still don't know. we know the type of document, the classification. bullet the fact a document of this potential could be mixed in with clothes and gifts and press clippings, do you see possibly an innocent explanation interest this? let's think about a benefit of the doubt. can one be extended? >> not at all. i mean there is absolutely no good reason for donal...

waste of time and a red herring. he also said loud and clear that his old boss brought this on himself by taking what did not belong to him, refusing to give it back and he seemed to suggest perhaps obstructing justice with his legal team deceiving investigators. >> i think the driver on this from the beginning was, you know, loads of classified information sitting in mar-a-lago. people say this was unprecedented. it's also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, okay? and how long is the government going to try to get tha...

in a storage room. this december despite one of his lawyers telling the government they've given everything back before that search. now agents found government documents mixed in with personal items like gifts and clothing. there are also dozens of empty folders that were marked as classified. i want to bring in cnn's sara murray, political analyst laura barone lopez, and nick akerman, and also we have national security attorney bradley moss. a great panel to talk about this very important issue. i want to begin with you here, sara. you've been going through the inventory documents ...