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CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell

from's, payments that remain to escorts, payments that are made to no-show employees. >> reporter: ziegler said he drafted this memo recommending justice department prosecutors charge hunter biden accordingly but said the trump-appointed u.s. attorney david weiss told him there was resistance to pursuing some of these charges by other officials at the justice department. >> it is a matter of, are we treating all taxpayers the same? >> reporter: and in this case? >> and in this case, no, i don't think so. >> repoter: today, democrats pushed backs on claims of preferential treatment. >> there is no evidence hunter biden has received any kind of official favoritism in this prosecution for being joe biden son. >> reporter: but ziegler described to cbs news a series of roadblocks that included his efforts to interview hunter biden's adult children about the legitimacy of his tax deductions. >> what did the assistant u.s. attorney tell you? >> that that is going to get us into hot water. >> reporter: ziegler also told us prosecutors would not sign off on pursuing leads that might

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Anderson Cooper 360

his ability to declassify documents were, you know, by fiat. >> right. >> and so -- >> but david, that's a factor. because i'm sure the discussion on monday by his lawyers with the justice department was something along the lines, elie will tell you this. you understand justice department prosecutors. you're going to have to prove that donald trump did not have inherent authority to declassify material, and that he was bound, not withstanding the fact that he is the commander in chief, to follow the procedure, and that he knew that. and by failing to follow that procedure, he violated the espionage act. let me tell you something. i think there is a lot of questions in just that little discussion there that raises some questions about whether or not the president is the commander in chief has inherent authority that congress cannot disturb relative to classified information. i think it's an open question. a and the justice department is now going to have to stand behind the position as an absolute that a president doesn't have that authority. >> there will be for sure, as david says, a disconnect between

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America Reports

transition of national defense information. he is an employee of the united states air national guard. fbi agents took teixeira into custody earlier this afternoon without incident. initial appearance at the district of massachusetts. thank the fbi, justice department prosecutors, and our colleagues at the department of defense for their diligent work on this case. this investigation is ongoing. we will share more information at the appropriate time. thanks, everyone. >> did he have lawful access to the document, sir? >> sandra: that's the news. jack douglas teixeira, employee of the united states air force national guard, he was taken into custody without incident. >> bill: and merrick garland saying he will make an appearance in the district of massachusetts, federal court, i did not hear a date. and what we were asking david spunt, how soon will we see the

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The Context

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Special Report With Bret Baier

>> bret: well, president biden overseas said he wasn't concerned about the leak. if you talk to officials here in washington behind the scenes, they say it's one of the worst classified leaks they have seen in decades. and the arrest was announced by the attorney general this afternoon. >> the justice department arrested jack douglas teixeira in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national defense information. he will have an initial appearance at the u.s. district court for the district of massachusetts. i want to thank the fbi, justice department prosecutors, and our colleagues at the department of defense for their dlijt work on this case. this investigation is ongoing. >> bret: 21-year-old massachusetts air national guardsman. let's bring in our panel gillian turner. josh kraushaar, and mara lia liasson. gillian, did you some reporting about his status and clearance

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The Rachel Maddow Show

investigating him. oh, you're going to investigate me, well i'm going to investigate you right back. you're the real scandal, you're the real scoundrels. that got a big round of cheers superspiro agnew, then the thing that got the republican women in that room up on their chairs standing, applauding, and screaming for him, the apex of his speech was when he said because the whole process was so corrupt, because the whole thing was such a witch hunt against him, because they were only coming after him because he was a big deal and he was-curve and all the liberals out there and the deep state were trying to -- he told that kraut he wanted to set expectations. they should understand and they should know no matter what happened to him, no matter what these justice department

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Alex Wagner Tonight

make a mistake? for the justice department prosecutors, the worry was often, we can't sit on this. we can't just wait and hope that the former president will do the right thing, and those two worries and two types of concerns really were at odds sometimes. >> devlin, i guess one of the things -- i wonder what your final opinion on this is. on one hand, it seems like fbi agents are reluctant to investigate two radar search the mar-a-lago property because they're concerned about the optics, they're concerned about what will happen in their careers, they don't want to go in and read a former presidents homes and jackets that say fbi. and then on the other hand, it seems like some legitimate belief that maybe trump and his legal team are cooperating, and that they have gotten everything that they need. how much of this reluctance to search mar-a-lago was due to political pressure, and how much of it was legitimate belief that, actually, we have everything that we need?

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Alex Wagner Tonight

hangover of cross fire hurricane, a reference to the fbi investigation of russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. the fbi, the same fbi that certain republicans have been attacking, was not champing at the bit to read donald trump speeches mention. instead, the agency was proceeding exceedingly carefully, and they were worried about the political implications of provoking the former president, and all this resulted in very heated battles between the fbi and justice department prosecutors who were advocating the more aggressive strategy of trying to retrieve those documents down at mar-a-lago. according to the washington post, it was only after a series of intense negotiations with justice department prosecutors that the fbi eventually moved forward with its search, and all along the way, in spite of all of the evidence to the contrary, the fbi continued to give trump and his legal team the benefit of the doubt. the washington post reports that some fbi field agents wanted to shutter the criminal

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Alex Wagner Tonight

investigation altogether, in early june, after trump's legal team asserted a diligent search had been conducted. but according to the washington post, the justice department prosecutors continue to push for a search of mar-a-lago. those prosecutors were ultimately vindicated when the eventual search in august recovered more than 100 classified documents. 18 of them top secret and so secret that fbi and doj investigators did not even have clearance to review them. so, how does this new behind the scenes reporting change what we know about the investigation and or it might be headed next? joining us now is devlin barrett, national security and law enforcement reporter for the washington post, one of the violence on this piece. devlin, thank you for making the time. it's been exhausted reporting, and i kind of came away with it confused and enlightened. what is your take away from having investigated all of this, in terms of the relationship

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Alex Wagner Tonight

evidence. that happens in a lot of cases. there are tension points, flare-ups, they get resolved, and they move forward. i think what is so different about the trump investigation is really two things. obviously, this is a very high profile case, you know that there will be a lot of attention paid to this. you know that there will be a lot of second-guessing, both inside the government and outside the government, and to, i think, as you've seen and the discussions, as we report them, there is a lot of tension and worry about making the wrong move. for the fbi agents, that often meant worrying about what if we go too fast, too quickly and make a mistake? for the justice department prosecutors, the worry was often, we can't sit on this. we can't just wait and hope that the former president will

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