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Search warrant, they wouldn't have found anything. so i think certainly they did ask for it and they didn't get what they needed. now, as to this declassification thing, i mean, we heard all sorts of fairly fanciful ideas earlier, every time he took something up to the bedroom, it was automatically declassified. it sounds like something you made up. i think it's something a jury would have trouble swallowing as a potential defense, but it's better than some of the other defenses we heard because it's slightly more plausible than the fact it was all done to plant evidence or some of the other s...

Highly sensitive, closely held defense information, and so, i expected the first two statutes that had been cited, i was surprised at the time the obstruction statute was included, it wasn't clear to me why that was but that very well may relate to the false statement we heard a moment ago, statute 1519, i charge that when i was a federal prosecutor, that relates to any work concealing or altering or mutilating a record in order to obstruct either a federal proceeding, usually in investigation, or potentially, obstructing the operations of the federal government program. >> all right, gentleme...

Something at the core of the issues here today. >> what was most alarming to you or most surprising to you as it pertains to the information in the unsealed warrant? >> well, there was a statute that the government cited that was 18 usc 1519, that is usually an obstruction statute. so if one of my clients came to me and said, my home got searched and they included that statute, i would tell them that he was under investigation for obstruction of justice. it is possible that they used it here to just show that trump was obstructing a government agency, perhaps the national archives or the depar...

0 hi alex. >> hi to you. yeah i'm cranking up about what you are just saying, because i was watching you with the amenable and wonderful role in martin and charles -- coming up. going like, she's never gonna end on time. roland is never gonna letter and on time. and if he is the listening there, he knows exactly what i'm talking about. but we love him, and his energy. and it was awesome. so hey, props to you for anchoring that. where you got him off on. time >> thank you, thank you very much. have a great show. >> thank you, see it next week. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world head...

Suggest this is a valid search? >> oh, ari, there is know request that everything here was by the book. it is tightly written in terms of where they wanted to look for materials and what they wanted to look for. and they cited three really serious federal statutes. now, i should say that it is not required and not really the practice to cite every statute that you're thinking about. so there is probably even more where that came from. but those three are serious crimes. these are not sort of technical violations. and at least one of them was very surprising to me. the citation to the obstructi...