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Keep his mouth shut. >> joining us now, author and senior fellow gabriel schoenfeld. you have a piece published on bulwark plus entitled, "it's not the law's fault that trump broke it." this is a good point. you wrote in part, in defending the former president, his allies and apologists are, as usual, hurling spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. one of the spaghetti strands is an attack on the espionage statute itself. you then specifically point to an article by conservative "new york sun" writer eli lake entitled, "trump probably broke the law, but that law shouldn't exist, "referring t...

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump appeared Tuesday afternoon at the federal courthouse in Miami, pleading not guilty to 37 felony counts related to mishandling of classified documents.

Donald Trump appeared Tuesday afternoon at the federal courthouse in Miami, pleading not guilty to 37 felony counts related to mishandling of classified documents.

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump appeared Tuesday afternoon at the federal courthouse in Miami, pleading not guilty to 37 felony counts related to mishandling of...

Doesn't exist. this is not espionage. >> these are lawyers, so they know what they're saying is crap. but explain to us about the espionage act. >> okay. so there is a set of statutes under federal criminal law generally known as the espionage statutes. within those -- and those are the statutes under which individuals who actually engage in espionage, spying for foreign governments, that is the set of laws that they're charged under. it also has a set of provisions of law that individuals who are charged with mishandling classified information or in this case willfully withholding national de...