this espionage act violation, the 2071 wrongfully retaining government documents, and obstruction of justice. how do they think that donald trump obstructed justice, for example? so those kinds of details, the theory of the case, it is kind of a summary of what the prosecutor would present to the jury. you can provide that legal information, even if there are redactions and you can get a fair amount of factual information. for example, we know that there was a back and forth. we might find out some more details. we might find out who signed. we know there was a document, apparently false, all classified information has been turned over. who signed that document? so even a little bit, amara. look at how much press coverage there has been of those one, two, three, four, five, six, words, willful retention of
joining us with reaction, the hill s joe concha, fox news contributor, former arkansas governor, mike huckabee. you ve watched this now for two years. we know thereu was nothing. the same media that ignored hillary s espionage act violation, 18 usc 793, any intent, what she did with the subpoenaed emails, 33,000, notice, they never look at that, just like they care about kavanaugh and high school but they don t carry about the lieutenant governor of the commonwealth of virginia and they don t care about russia, especially with hillary s phony botton paid for dossier. let s be real clear. the democrats and the media, which is in the same thing, they are like little kids who are still hunting easter eggs in the fourth of july. this thing is over and they just can t quit running around with their basket looking for the eggs that aren t there.
did mention the espionage act and said that the violation of this other statute, the computer fraud and abuse act, was in furtherance of an espionage act violation. and so it already sort of raised the specter that something like this was coming. but this is really what free speech and free press advocates have been worrying about. this is the first time in a hundred years that the espionage act has been used. i mean since the act became law, the first time it s been used against a publisher for publishing information of public concern. and it really does cross a new frontier. you had the bush administration begin prosecuting leakers as spies. you had the obama administration prosecute more espionage act cases than all previous administrations combined. but none of those prosecutions involved a publisher. now we have a publisher. i just want to be clear on that distinction. the people that were prosecuted were people that had done the leaking. that s right. and were i think in al
now you ve got these. what do you make of that? well, the first indictment did mention the espionage act and said that the violation of this other statute, the computer fraud and abuse act, was in furtherance of an espionage act violation. and so it already sort of raised the specter that something like this was coming. but this is really what free speech and free press advocates have been worrying about. this is the first time in a hundred years that the espionage act has been used. i mean since the act became law, the first time it s been used against a publisher for publishing information of public concern. and it really does cross a new frontier. you had the bush administration begin prosecuting leakers as spies. you had the obama administration prosecute more espionage act cases than all previous administrations combined. but none of those prosecutions involved a publisher. now we have a publisher. i just want to be clear on that distinction.
that we are rounding up russian spies and getting them out of this country, i don t know whether this is a question of logan act violation or the espionage act violation. it certainly needs to be looked into. all right. malcolm, man, this issue isn t going away as much as i really want it to. no. next, it s an emotional time at the white house. malcolm is talking about one president at a time. one vp. there is no one more emotional right now than vice president joe biden. we have more on that surprise he got just yesterday. plus this, an open letter from the bush sisters to the obama girls. you ll be writing the story of your own lives beyond the shadows of your famous parents.