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Trump was not fully forthcoming the federal investigators. you should note that nbc news has not seen this document. and a spokesperson for the former president indicated that the times report was based on quote, anonymous searches, and no hard facts. there is so much to break down. and i can get anyone better to explain it on the former director of the cia, john brennan. thank you, mister director for joining us. okay, we just explained all the different types of classified documents that agents took from mar-a-lago. can you make it clear for folks what sensitive, compartmentalized in formati...

That is causing this. i think that that is incorrect. i think the reality is everyone has a responsibility here, am i right? >> yeah, absolutely. politicians words do matter especially when it comes to people. whether it is marjorie taylor greene referring to fbi agents as brownshirts, and normalizing this kind of violence in these kinds of threats. i think that it is coming downstream. this is all sort of connected to all of the attacks on institutions that we have seen normalized, starting with the january six riots. >> yeah, this is, and as you've been talking about before january 6th, i'm ...

Part of the republican base and i think because rowe was the law of the land, they were sort of the insurgents trying to deconstruct the status quo, others trying to defend the taughtis kwo even though it was chipped away in whole women's health and through a variety of means. but that seems like flip now. it seems to me that every democratic lawmaker should be talking about this law whenever they can. like, it's a disgusting, despicable, bad-faith piece of garbage that everyone in america should know about. >> i couldn't agree more with your technical description of the law. it's terrible. it...

Voting rights act in the preclearance notions. states can't do a lot of the shenanigans either on a state regulatory level, on a state legislative level, without preclearance from the department of justice. that means any substantive procedural change to voting procedures on the state local county municipal level would have to be cleared by the department of justice. my mentor and good friend deval patrick of the civil rights former director of the civil rights division of the department of justice firmly let the preclearance process. no kristen clark leads it. if it were restart under section...

Senator blocks democrats from getting anything passed? obama suggested the democrats need to get together, all of them, to fight against what he sees as a uniquely toxic opposition. listen. >> i think we have to worry when one of our major political parties is willing to embrace a way of thinking about our democracy that would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago. when you look at some of the laws that are being passed at the state legislative level. and when that's all done against the backdrop of large numbers of republicans having been convinced wrongly tha...