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Document is mine, this document is not. >> it's tough to try to figure out why he had these specific documents. mark, i know that he also had some papers that are unusual. >> roger stone, for instance, whose sentence he commuted, he had the original commutation of the sentence there. guess who is puzzled by that? roger stone. when you ask him, why did he have the commutation original document, stone has no idea. there's a lot of weird behavior and mysteries as to exactly why did donald trump do it this way, why did he keep so many different types of documents stored in the storage room at mar-...

Could be uncovered, but also nervous about the impact it may have on this fall's midterms, particularly if this, if trump decides that in order to counteract this, he needs to declare his candidacy for president, a lot of gop members that i speak to say that would be the worst thing that it could be for the party, trump would be a distraction and shift the focus from what they want to talk about, things like inflation, president biden's record, et cetera. >> so how we got here, mark, your reporting shows that from the beginning, trump's handling of official documents was, quote, slap dash and ...

And i think that's what merrick garland and his team is going over and looking at now. that's what you saw members of the senate judiciary looking at in terms of wanting to see the documents to understand just how grave of an issue was this? on its face, there's no question, he's broken the law. the issue is, merrick garland has to decide, again, balancing the equities in terms of the prejudice that it creates, what do i want to do about this? and that is more of a political question than it is a legal one. >> let's talk also, mark, about what we know about this president, and specifically, ab...

Federal offenses that are listed in the search warrant, and as said why is trump keeping these materials? what has he already done wand trump it's always the question of criminal intent? this looks evidence. trump knew the fed wanted these materials and he knowingly and willfully refused to give the government back some of its most sensitive information. we know that he got this polite request from the national archives. when that didn't work they ratcheted up the pressure with the grand jury subpoena, and when that didn't work, that's what brought trump the fbi raid. >> which is -- you know, ...

Litigated and discussed more and more. >> what's supposed to happen with presidential documents, and then there's a separate issue of top secret and secret documents. but let's talk about that. once a president leaves office, he has a lot of documents that have been produced during his administration, but there's a difference there. >> mark is exactly right. there are two issues here. there is the issue of whether something is top secret or classified in some way and what you're supposed to do with it, then documents in general. let's say he did declassify him and the government considers it a...