Core straightforward. the former president allegedly took government documents from the white house, which is one sort of crime, and were flagrantly failed to comply with a subpoena for those documents, lied about them, and otherwise impeded federal authorities which is another. smith has long since assembled a formidable case that trump did so despite misconduct was against the law. jack smith, the special counsel, and had already come to knowing his conduct was against the law, in a moment. let s be clear, if you know or former governor employers who were accused of doing even 10% of what trump is accused of doing in the documents case, we would ve been indicted and prosecuted long ago. it would ve been an 02 year wait, no prevaricating from merrick garland in the justice department, no appointment of a special counsel. if you or i had taken home three under document covers of classification markings, including some marked top secret. if you or i had then denied having those documents, and dragged out cooperating with norah and the doj overturning those documents. if you or i were accused of moving boxes of those documents after seeing a subpoena, if you or i was giving public speech saying those documents were hours to keep, and also demanded they be returned to us. if you or i had accused the fbi of planting documents at our house. if you or i had a lawyer who had put in writing that all the documents had been given back when they haven t. if you or i had a lawyer who had been waved off from searching our personal office where documents were found. if you or i had claimed an empty folder with a confined marking found in our bedroom was being used to cover up a blue light from the bedside landline telephone those keeping us up at night, we would have been indicted and prosecuted long ago. hence, beyond no illusion he on that.
It doesn t mean anything. and here s an important piece not only did he know it was there but the fbi knew it was there. when the fbi conducted the raid of mar-a-lago, that folder was there. they saw it. they recognized it s not classified, not something subject to any of these. and the fbi left it there. mm-hmm. so, you know, there were no classified documents in his bedroom. that s it s one of those things where, you know, things get kind of missed in the weeds. let me ask you, the former president did that town hall and he was asked about it, he again talked about, hey, we were negotiating with the archive. yeah. what do you negotiate? i mean, there is no i don t understand what the negotiation was. sure. was it financial? no, no, no. the negotiation is over the next two years, after any president leaves office, they re supposed to go through all of the records and they re supposed to separate out what is personal, what is presidential. right. personal, they get to keep. all presidential records end up at the national archives headquarters in d.c. this ordinarily happens where they get a facility in the town where the president has moved to, so in chicago for obama, down in texas for the bushes, and all of them are held in that facility. here, what nara did is chose not to get a facility like that, had gsa move everything to his house
He was not given a much longer period of time. you know, later, doj came back to us and, you know, through a whole series of events, we went back to expand the search. right. but the fact that maybe it was not something that was oh missed in place at the time, the fact that maybe it s an omission, one judge apparently in a sealed document let me read this from what the judge said here. notably, no excuse is provided as to how the former president could miss the marked classified documents found in his own bedroom in mar-a-lago. it seems there is a sure. he seemed to know he had documents he wasn t supposed to have. actually, that s an interesting quote you pulled out, because there were no classified documents in his bedroom. what she s talk about there was this folder that there s been discussion about a folder, classified evening summary, which is in and of itself not even a classification level.
This is from the marine corps, that s the chair for the apprentice that are used. tom brady s super bowl helmet. this is mike tyson spell. this is vince mcmahon, from the world wrestling federation, this is shaquille o neal s shoe. is that a real issue? he took enough of a game and handed it to me. okay, so, i don t think that s a bit. that s not a bit this is a guy who really likes knick-knacks and memorabilia. and he likes to show them off to people. do you remember he even stuck in empty classified folder that he had clearly taken from the presidency in a display case at the bar at trump tower. so keeping the dozens of classified documents that went to those could just be his presidential version of mike tyson memorabilia.
If they were taken against their will. but there s no evidence to show that, and there s no amber alerts for anything like that. but it is an alarming trend for the sum of the year for sure. tell me a little bit about the importance of parents having a new photo, a recent photo, so they can get it to you, because you set the public attention is the most important thing in order to get the children back. absolutely, the public is a business asset and this, when you look at the cleveland website and shows a number of children and there is no folder available what s happening, and it s a little bit alarming because it is very difficult to track down a name, but it s very easy to check on her face. so, if we get the person s face out there, we can use the public as i accept the bring these kids home safely. how concerned are you about young people being online, thinking that they might be meeting up with somebody, and i think you wrote to a producer that sometimes often the people they meet online, is that they