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he joins me ahead with his personal story of living under china s covid lockdown. but we want to get right to cnn s john avlon, charlie dent. alice stewart is here as well. i m happy to have all of you on. good evening to you. john, let s start with the new stuff, the stuff that s breaking. hi, everyone. the fbi issuing investigators issuing, i should say, a subpoena to the national archives to access classified documents that trump took to mar-a-lago. are we going to find out what he took to mar-a-lago, and what does this mean for the former president, you think? well, we will find out what he took to mar-a-lago. we may find out the context in which he took it. was it trump cluelessness, or was there classified information that hadn t been declassified? there s also a statute having to do with these documents which might end up being material. there is a law on the books that says if you steal, spindle, mutilate official documents, that there are punishments th ....
It was always for documents. i don t think we actually ever issued the subpoenas, but we authorized them. senator bob packwood, he was subpoenaed for documents. he went to court and packwood lost. what s unusual is members are being asked to provide testimony under a subpoena, and so i suspect these members will not comply and then if the house flips, i suspect they ll return the favor and they will issue subpoenas to their favorite targets, maybe adam schiff or someone like that. but this is i think it s bad for congress at the end of the day because, you know, if these subpoenas are defied by the members, you know, it just weakens congress. so i think that s really what s happening here. he didn t say it, but i could hear it, john. look, i think this is not a process story. yes, they may try to run out the clock. yes, it s bad for the institution. they ll probably refuse it. but that s not the real deal. ....