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Subpoena and we got a search warrant to get the documents and we they have them now, end of story. and it is timing. why would merrick garland seek to do it now and what was so pressing now and all of these things are contributing to a level of angst and curiosity in the public now that you let the lid off of this thing, it leads people to wonder what is next. and that is a very difficult place to be as a law enforcement officer, as a prosecutor because there are questions that you simply can't answer. so i'm thinking about all of these. i think on a basic level it is clear that trump could po...

Decisions here. i'm the one who signed for the warrant in order to be presented in front of a judge. so all of these things, i think he did in the interest of, number one, showing leadership and protecting his agents and his attorneys but number two being clear about the fact that the political sort of firestorm and conversation was not going to influence him in any undo way whether it comes to interest of justice and the pursuit. >> the law is the law. the justice department has said we're not going to treat anybody for favorably than somebody else. we're also going after political prosecutio...

Now whether the doj will look to prosecute him on that charge is a different story. i think it is important that people understand, during the course of any investigation or even the execution of a search warrant, those things are not released to the public in the manner that this has been released and one of the reasons why is because at this point in an investigation, you're going to have more questions than you're going to have answers. usually you'll hear law enforcement say, we don't comment on open investigations. because there are so many different things that we don't necessarily know....

Donald trump's lawyer, representing him in this right now. >> i'm on and i can't hear. >> he can't hear. we'll get that earpiece worked out. live television, folks. barbara, i'll go back to you. if you were donald trump's lawyer, how would you be defending him. >> one thing that is interesting katy, and this might be the kind of argument that you make for indefensible claims but he thinks he declassified them. he can't, as you mentioned and other guests have noted, there is a process for de classifying things. but these statutes require proving willfulness. most crimes make it necessary only t...