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Great to see you. those two names. what does it tell you about this case? >> it tells me, harris, the congress is taking a very close look at this. i don't know, however, that the department of justice will base any charging decisions off what they may hear this week. listen, this is a long investigation. this gun application thing goes back to 2018. there is a general five-year statute of limitations on federal charges. so this recent meeting between biden's lawyers, hunter biden's lawyers and the department of justice, that tells me that there is probably some type of negotiated plea deal in...
Retired u.s. army brigadier general peter sa wak, also with us, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, paul butler so ron, what else did we learn from these charging documents? walk us through what happened in court today. >> reporter: it's very interesting that he was aware, worried that the government was after him, and that's based on something that happened april 6th, the first day there were press reports about these classified documents, according to the charging document, he did a search using his government computer using the word leak trying to essentially figure out what ...
Per page, and there were hundreds of documents. the charging document tells us he had been worried he might get caught what it doesn't answer are key questions of how and why he leaked the classified documents in the first place but a member of the chat group where he first shared the top secret papers told "the washington post" he's no edward snowden. >> i would not call him a whistle-blower in the slightest. i don't think there was a goal nor some sort of accomplishment that he was looking for in sharing these documents. >> well, capitol hill wants answers. members of congress on both sides ...
Given the nature of the case and who the defendant is, are you expecting a long detailed charging document, or are you expecting more of something like a speaking document, like a bare bones document >> normally you can see an indictment, a narrative, a story provided by the prosecutor to explain the facts, how did we get here there are media reports that there are 34 felonies in the indictment, and we don't know what they are and will have to wait until the afternoon we have seen the players, and in this instance, once this indictment is unsealed we will be able to see the specific statutes i...