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Retentions, and no one's being dismissive. when i hear that phrase, document retention, that you heard on the other panel, about this being something relegated to a minor thing. these are current laws on the books involving the presidential records act, involving congressional legislation to say, we as a society do not want documents that are classified or of national security interest or otherwise or defense information to be out and about, retained, released, disclosed, in some way. so, when you're talking about the document retention aspect of it, do you think that people see it as minimize...

Means this entire thing is not in a criminal setting. it's a statutory scheme about document retention that was no criminal penalty. the idea you can be doing armed raids and even criminal grand jury subpoenas is ludicrous. >> this indictment comes as president trump separately faced state charges in new york. that's for his role in hush money payments or a hush money payment to stormy daniels on the eve of the 2016 election. the former president is facing investigations regarding january 6th and his efforts to overturn the election in georgia. now back out here live, bill, the former presiden...

Government property that was sensitive in a place it shouldn't have been. and potentially an investigation got tampered with. >> what are your thoughts on the florida grand jury that continues to hear testimony in the federal investigation? can you learn anything from the fact that the focus seems to have moved to that location? >> the very important caveat we don't know, you really bring a grand jury in another state because thing about bringing charges there, different crimes -- the justice department charges crimes based on where they happen. a document retention or possession crime may tak...

Fact, a target of a classified documents investigation. in other words, he believes he has evidence indicating trump committed a crime. and another new detail not about when, but where, charges would likely be brought. "the washington post" now reporting that a, quote, significant portion of any charges against trump will be brought in south florida close to mar-a-lago. trump's former defense attorney tim parlatore was on "the last word" last night, and he talked about the shift in place. >> if you look at the allegations, nothing happened in d.c. if it was document retention, it happened in f...

Prosecutors have a lot of discretion -- >> why would they do that? >> so the role of a prosecutor is that you get to choose what federal district you could to bring your case in. but asked to be a federal district for some portion of the crime occurred. here, you can see how the crime occurred in florida. the document retention and mishandling crime and the obstruction crime. the other argument is d. c.. well, he took the documents from d. c.. that would be the scene at the crime. but the counter argument to that is if the facts are, and kaitlan will probably know this, if he took the document...