lawyer. i want to double down on the significance of this new information because it s not just willful retention of documents. it seems like a willful attempt to obstruct justice. at his explicit orders, the boss wants these deleted. when they know the request is coming. it shows underlying contempt for the law, whether the law doesn t apply to him or attempt to evade it, it is serious stuff for a party that traditionally has believed in law and order. one issue as a pr matter, when this first came out, the pushback, it s just newspaper clippings. we were showing newspaper clippings. no, no, it was a map of the thing top secret battle plans. for trump, who sent his people out to make that argument, oh, it s just newspaper clippings. they don t have anything here. that s been defeated as an argument. back to the newspaper clippings and how this is evidence, right, so with respect to the document that he s
comprehensively, previously searched. but they also found stuff in donald trump s personal office. giving the justice department reasons to argue that, not only was it untrue that they did a comprehensive search, but true, they move stuff from that storage locker to another location to obstruct the investigation. very telling stuff, very damaging legally, and from a pr matter, it s hard to defend the resident. right, the doj also says the office search of mar-a-lago cast serious doubt on the statement made by trump lawyers that classified material had already been turned. in fact, the top justice department official says that a federal investigator were limited in what they could look there when visiting the resort in june contrary to the trump team s narrative of total cooperation. so, what are the possible legal consequences of that? well, there are two statutes that are in play here. one, is obstruction of justice. and the other one is criminal concealment of documents.
and they found not only the stuff in the storage facility that they said was comprehensively, previously searched, but they also found stuff in donald trump s personal office, giving the justice department reason to argue that not only was it untrue that they did a conference of search, but true that they moved stuff from the storage locker to another location to obstruct the investigation. very telling, very damaging legally from a pr matter it is hard to defend. the doj also says the august search of mar-a-lago casts serious doubt on the statement made by trump lawyers, as classified material had already been returned for the top justice department official contends the federal investigators were limited in what they could look through, when visiting the resort, in june, contrary to the trump team s narrative of total cooperation. what are the possible legal copper consequences of that?
necessarily going to happen. do you need a bigger name officials, former officials or even officials that might still work in the administration to come out and condemn the president or explain to the american public why this syria stuff is such a big deal? is it enough for senator mcconnell or lindsey graham to say this is a bad decision? as a pr matter maybe it would help the trump anti-syria attitude to have john bolton come out forthrightly or one of these officials coming out forthrightly. it will matter more if republican officials separate themselves from trump. that s actually meaningful. i think we re already seeing the movement. honestly, wooer seeing the movement. the statement from mcconnell is evidence from that. i believe it bleeds into the impeachment to have that kind of a front. nick confessore, zerlina maxwell, john podhoretz,
donald trump. think of those two narrators. donald trump and vladamir putin trying to explain exactly what happened and no account what happened in that room. imagine you were president trump, a person under investigation for working with russia. your campaign worked with russia. what would you do as a pr matter? wouldn t you have as many people in a room as you could? wouldn t you have translators and advisors? somebody from your country. of course i don t have a strange relationship with vladamir putin, it s all out in the open. he s doing the exact opposite. not only that, the story sourced by a russian official. this wasn t coming from u.s. sources. this is russia saying, we are going to interfere even more with this president by doing this. john heilemann, what this shows us is, again, the russians, at every one of these meetings, have all the read-outs. they know what goes on in these meetings so they can prepare in the future. i love what jim vandehei says,