russia, if you re listening, i hope you re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. people have nothing to hide don t smash phones with hammers, they don t. people who have nothing to hide don t bleach. nobody ever heard of it. don t bleach their emails, or destroy evidence to keep it from being publicly archived as required under federal law. and i think that you should be apologizing for, are the 33,000 emails that you deleted, and that you washed, and then the two boxes of emails and other things last week, that were taken from an office and are now missing. where are these servers? they re missing, where are they? what happened to hillary clinton s emails? 33,000 emails, gone. she just gone. and that was largely false. there were personal events that clinton did say, that were
remember this? after her private server was revealed last march, her staff deleted all the emails and wiped it clean. people who have nothing to hide don t bleach. nobody s ever heard of it. don t bleach their emails or destroy evidence to keep it from being publicly archived as required under federal law. now, that s interesting, and it begs the question of what could this mean for the former president now. i want to bring in mary mccord, who was the acting head of the justice department s national security division during the obama administration. it s great to see you, mary mccord, especially on a night like that. let me begin by asking this. part of what trump said was the idea of one bleaching or trying to shield evidence of wrongdoing in some respects. one could argue and certainly he will argue that he wasn t trying to shield wrongdoing or
people who have nothing to hide don t bleach. nobody s ever heard of it. don t bleach their emails or destroy evidence to keep it from being publicly archived as required under federal law. we want to begin, though, with that breaking news in canada. protesters challenging vaccine mandates continue to gather near ontario s ambassador bridge that serves as a major connecter between the u.s. and canada, crippling trade on both sides, by the way, of the border. with me now more to talk about this, we have nbc s cal perry in windsor, canada, for us. also, carl evers. cal, you and i spoke at the top of the hour, just around 3:00 p.m. and you talked about how, essentially, these protesters are standing their ground, despite the fact that they were asked to leave, not only were they standing their ground. the crowd was actually growing. where are we this hour?
people who have nothing to hide don t smash phones with hammers. they don t. people who have nothing to hide don t bleach. nobody has ever heard of it. don t bleach their e-mails or destroy evidence to keep it from being publicly archived as required under the federal law. she also, and her staff, destroyed some of her 13 different phones but this time with a hammer. it s got to be galling for you to listen to that. you ve brought so many fond memories back for me, don. thank you. to ron s point, one of the reasons why that e-mail matter became such a dark cloud over hillary clinton s head through 2016, unfairly i believe, is because federal law enforcement officials at that time saw fit to launch a true, deep federal
once chewing the pieces of paper. maggie haberman writes in her new book, the staff kept finding evidence trump was trying to flush papers down the toilet, all of which is completely normal. look, no president has been charged with theft of official records from his administration, even though trump s grab bag makes the nixon tapes look targeted. and i understand the key question here is intent. but when are we going to stop treating the ex-president like a malevolent child? ignorance can t be an excuse because there is no excuse for being persistently ignorant when you re president, especially because at least two chiefs of staff and a white house counsel reportedly told trump he was required to protect his documents. if that s not enough for you, trump certainly seemed to understand the need to archive documents when he was running against hillary clinton. people who have nothing to hide don t smash phones with hammers. they don t. people who have nothing to hide don t bleach, nobo