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Contained national security vital information and why even after they got a subpoena from a grand jury, they hid it from the government. there's no response to that from trump. >> devlin, you have laid out that timeline in "the washington post" along the way and pointing out just how often and how vigorously the government tried to get this stuff back, quietly, though, giving him special procedures because he is a former president. so not going after him the way they would anyone else, the subpoena, the requests, again, going back to them, the visit june 3rd and then, of course, going to the w...

To me like the dynamic here is, the federal government, and national archives, the fbi, doj, did not wanted to get to this point. but now that it's at this point, what do you do, right? it just feels like everyone has kind of walked to the point where you kind of got a jump. >> yeah, it is a great question, chris. first of all, you don't have to prove a mauve motive as a federal prosecutor, it's not necessarily. whatever the motive is, if you committed a crime, you committed a crime. let's put that aside. so what do you do now? there is a couple of possibilities. one possibility is that they j...

Declassify things, which is a complication in and of itself. i think by getting the warrant and getting the stuff, you can argue whether this was, you know, an extreme measure, too drastic of a measure, but what they wanted get the stuff back, allow the fbi and the intelligence community to do a damage assessment, get the records back that the national archives wanted, and call it a day. and i think that's what they have accomplished here. neil: but it might not be that simple, right? it sounds to me like them getting documents that the president said he'd already given and so they're going to...

Never quite do the right thing. so after months and months and months, to your point, claire, of trying to get the stuff back by asking, and that didn't work, and then through a grand jury subpoena, and that apparently didn't work, they finally executed the search warrant. i think that explains a good bit of the delay. i don't blame the department of justice for trying to do it more gently. i certainly don't blame them for ultimately getting a search warrant and executing it on the home. the stuff, as jackie explained, that was in the house was among the most damaging, potentially, if released...

That was a little speed bump in the news, a little rattle when we rolled over that. hey, what was that? tonight, we've got a new filing from that same former president, filed a federal court in florida, former president is asking for a special master to be appointed by the court to review the materials the fbi recently seized from president trump's home in florida. trump is also demanding the fbi get back to him the materials they seized from his home. it's really something. i mean, you will recall, among the statutes under which the former president is now being investigated, are portions of ...