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records that were taken by the twice-impeached ex-president when he left office in january 2021. the new reporting also details team trump s months of resistance led by the ex-president himself to handing over records containing some of the country s most important and guarded national security secrets. it reveals that the search of trump s private resident was actually many months in the making and really just the latest chapter in a long, simmering investigation. here s what happened when the national archives got their hands on the first batch of documents from mar-a-lago back in january according to this new reporting in the washington post, quote, when archives employees began opening up and sifting the material they noticed an immediate problem. the boxes arrived without logs and inventories to describe their content according to a person familiar with the recovery. instead they contained a hodgepodge of documents including some that didn t come from trump s tim ....
Not ask robert mueller to simply come to a conclusion because as it said here, the report could be read to find that indeed, he did commit obstruction. as you said, nicole, robert mueller s way of saying that, but not saying it was to say, okay, in volume one, dealing with the underlying conspiracy we conclude that there s not proof beyond a reasonable doubt, and we won t take that in saying in any way we are absolving the president of obstruction. this is just bill barr clearly taking advantage of and playing robert muler and just to put a fine point on it as i ve said in the past and was public manage and bill barr was a personal friend of robert mueller and it ....
Ed o callahan and steve engel decided not to answer. they write this in the second page of the memo to bill barr. although the special counsel has declined to reach a conclusion, we think the department should reach a judgement on this matter. on traditional principles of prosecution the department either brings charges or it does not. because the department brings charges against an individual only the charges beyond a reasonable doubt, any uncertainty concerning the facts and law underlying a proposed prosecution ultimately must be resolved in favor of that individual. the principle does not change simply because the subject of the investigation is the president. that s not what the special counsel found at all and they found all of the evidence and the six acts for the criminal destruction of justice. what robert mueller said if i could say laws had been broken i would. why did they distort the basic ....
do you this calls for you to speculate, andrew weissmann and you have a firm approach from which to do so. do you believe these two men, knowing what they knew of the evidence ed, i think, met weekly or every other week with one of robert mueller s deputies, right? he knew everything that was happening. he knew the evidence being developed. i think he knew the witnesses that were end component the on and the incidents reported out and the tampering with witnesses and the threats to fire robert mueller. what do you think do you think he wrote this memo with steve engel out of his own volition or do you think bill barr asked for it? i don t know the answer to that, nicole. there s ney question that the ....
Stephen engel and callahan. bill barr held this memo held secret until moments ago to justify his decision to not charge donald trump with the crimes of obstruction of justice outlined in the 23 month-long investigation led by robert mueller and his team from the mueller probe. this memo was written by two senior doj officials for attorney general barr both political appointees. they argue that the mueller report had not established a case to charge trump with obstruction. the justice department had fought to keep this memo hidden, but last week an appeals court ordered its release agreeing with an earlier decision by a judge that doj had been, quote, disingenuous in withholding the memo. let s bring in andrew weissmann, former doj prosecutor and senior member of the special counsel investigation and he is now an msnbc legal analyst. with us still is pete strzok, former fbi counterintelligence agent who also worked on the mueller investigation and my ....