providing that the united states reserves and retains complete ownership, possession and control of presidential records. for more than a year, and despite multiple opportunities to remedied situation and return materials that rightly belong to the federal government, donald trump refused to cooperate time and time again. as we know now from the indictment unsealed by the department of justice yesterday, the former president and his personal valet, and now codefendants, walt nauta have both been indicted. trump along faces 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information, and one count of false statements. both men are also charged with one count each of his conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document, corruptly concealing a document, concealing and documents in a federal investigation, and a scheme to conceal. not to has also in charge for making false statements. the government alleges in his indictment that it s not only a passive bystander that go
one has to understand the background here. foreign intelligence services are constantly trying to target and penetrate a president or former president and his or her family. and so, mar-a-lago existed with a giant bull s-eye on the property, and numerous foreign nationals have been exposed publicly as being able to penetrate. what concerns me most, ali, is what we don t know about the counter intelligence challenges at mar-a-lago, and who got their. there s a glimpse of it in the indictment, which refers to the hundreds of thousands of people who trapped through mar-a-lago during the period of interest in this investigation. and mary, there are people, mark zain will tell you, at least a phone will tell you, the u.s., possibly, classifies too much stuff and doesn t declassify things in a timely manner. that wouldn t apply to any of the stuff that s referred to in this indictment. the stuff in this indictment, as frank was saying, refers to