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Venue. where are you going to indict? if you're going to indict. and here there are two possible places. florida or d.c. with trump saying that he made the decision in d.c., that makes the case for d.c. look stronger. of course those d.c. judges have already had aspects of this case including the attorney-client privilege aspects of this case already. so they're familiar with it. you know, look, i don't think it's impossible to say donald trump isn't going to be indicted. but i think all the signs are indicating that he will be. and that squares with i think the experience that those of us who...

President to articulate once and for all what is your version of what occurred? we want to hear you before a final prosecutorial decision is made. that's pretty common that you give a defendant an opportunity in a white-collar case, an opportunity to make that presentation before an indictment decision is made. >> i am told that neal katyal has made his way to a camera. neal, we want your take on everything that has transpired today. news of this audio memo, a month of audio diaries from donald trump's criminal defense attorney, as well as the news that just broke in the last ten minutes that ...

Of sorts or do they issue a very cursory elements of the statute indictment which just says he violated this statute and these are the elements of that statute? >> do you have a sense of which is more likely? >> i mean, i think you could argue that there's a public interest to getting more information -- >> i mean, mueller did the second. >> exactly right. prosecutors are mindful of the magnitude of cases, that certain cases are more significant. there's a greater degree of public interest. that sort of suggests maybe a peaking indictment, a little bit more meat on the bones than you'd normall...

You assess as we sit here today the strength of both prongs, the sort of underlying crime, if you will, of the mishandling of the classified documents, perhaps violations of the espionage act, as well as the incredibly brazen obstruction of that investigation? >> yeah. so even before donald trump opened his mouth really about this investigation, even before we knew about the dress rehearsals of moving the boxes of evidence and even before we knew about the iran tape that came out last week about the classified information and the ways in which it maintained classification after trump brought i...

In this meeting, jim trusty, telegraphed something of an agenda for what he was hoping to talk about with merrick garland himself. obviously, that conversation didn't happen, but he said in a tv interview that he hoped to sort of level accusations of prosecutorial misconduct, that he wants to claim prosecutors work for jack smith's team have engaged in problematic behavior that should shape doj's charging decision in this case. of course certainly it seems like garland, lisa monaco and the other top brass at the justice department did not decide to engage with that overture that trusty made pu...