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completely emasculated by a predominant government interest in law enforcement with an ongoing criminal investigation. so even if he has any privilege it s qualified and it s overcome by the government s interest. just listening to you talk, david, we re back to a failure of imagination. it was last used in the intelligence community to describe the audacity of the september 11th attack. now you re using it to describe the limits of our laws and the rule of law in america to deal wan unbound president who refuses to accept the results of a free and fair election. what do we do about that? i mean, you know, that s a question really for the strength and durability of our civil society and political leadership, not a question for the department of justice. the job of the department of justice is to determine through investigation the application of law, judicial precedent, long-standing enforcement policy, whether laws may have been broken and how do i
point with you, david. this is about the sort of convergence of these conversations and fights about executive privilege between the january 6th and mar-a-lago investigations. as the justice department investigates both trump s attempts to overturn the 2020 election and his retention of sensitive documents at his florida residence, his legal team has repeatedly claimed that he has retained power to keep information secret, allowing him to block prosecutors from obtaining evidence about his confidential oval office communications. president joe biden is not backing trump s attempt to use that power, and many legal scholars in the justice department have argued that he is stretching the narrow executive privilege rights the supreme court has said former presidents may invoke. that there are few definitive legal guide posts in this area and the fight could have significant ramifications. there s so much that is interconnected. the national security effort is tied into the criminal investi
shocking but not surprising. it s where we start the hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends. jackie alemany is here, washington post investigations reporter and an msnbc distributor. our friend glenn thrush is back, new york times justice department these days. and david laughlin is here. at the national jackie, i ll start with you. i think we first learned about this from your reporting and we have the actual documents from nara to trump lawyers. they re in line with what you d first reported. they say this. there are also now certain paper textual records that we cannot account for. we therefore need your immediate assistance to ensure that nara receives all presidential records as required by the presidential records act. for example, the original correspondence between president trump and north korean leader kim jong un were not transferred to us. it is our understanding that in january 2021 just prior to the end of the administration the originals were put in a
we should point out republicans are still standing by trump. they are still vowing to pursue oversight and investigations into the department of justice if they win back the majority, but it is clear they are starting to calibrate their response after the washington post report donald trump might be in possession of highly sensitive documents. david laughlin led the u.s. justice department s counterintelligence section until 2018. he oversaw investigations into both hillary clinton s and former cia director david petraeus handling of classified records. here s what he had to say about the seizure of top secret documents from trump s residence. in some respects it s not that surprising given this president s consistent flagrant disregard for the protection of classified information and disregard for the intelligence community throughout his presidency, his careless,