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I do think, speaking not as a january 6th member but as a lawyer and judiciary committee member, that the decision is not in the mainstream. and the question is, should they appeal it, that's a question about timing, as well as prec precedent, but the classification of documents is thoroughly invested in the executive branch, not the judicial branch. this is kind of out there, but they've got to make strategic decisions that i'm not going to second guess. >> earlier this week, i interviewed jeff berman who said that this is a very serious case. an obstruction of justice, the attempt of the jus...

The prosecutor prosecutorial power as one of the ultimate powers that state wields, and it's used to go after people who don't like politically, then you're not really living in a free society anymore. so to say to go after greg craig puts you on the edge of something that is pretty dark? >> that is the fundamental truth here and the main point looks like jeff berman tough and other people talking about how this is an unwritten rule at the department of justice, because the department of justice is part of the executive branch. so the president has the power to dictate what they can and cannot...

Wrong, but the reason is also always the same. it's always, republicans carving him out from the laws of legal and political gravity that apply to everyone else. literally, the same republicans who chanted "lock her up" with cameras on their faces in the light of day don't think that having another country's nuclear secrets in their house is anything that anyone should make a big whoop about. i mean, the one reason why two impeachments, the mueller probe, the cohen investigation we're learning from jeff berman was badly meddled with, i mean, the reason is the same but the result is also the sa...

The government has enormous powers to come into someone's life and to not only find out, you know, what's under their bed but put them in prison. and it was the use of that in this book which is -- which makes it different. we've seen donald trump try and obstruct a lot of different things, a lot of different investigations into him. but the proactive use is what's different and distinct here. >> frank, i'll give you the last word. is that -- those proactive targeting and you know, he succeeded. just because jeff berman refused to prosecute greg craig, he still gets prosecuted. a jury found hi...

During the trump years and mueller wasn't political. what was political was attorney general barr's decision to smear it and make sure it never saw the light of day. >> jeff berman at fdny seemed to not be influenced by politics and what was political was the man at the top and he's gone. does this feel like an overcorrection and learning the right lessons or was this what what he should have done in. >> i also dispute the notion that the mueller investigation originated as an investigation with trump. it didn't. it ultimately rose to whether trump and the campaign were involved and it started...