at the inception each of these investigations in the same way. by bringing in a special counsel to review the biden side of this document saga, i think the attorney general has done exactly that. he needs to now resource it in the same way that he has the other special counsel, he needs to step away from it. not subjected to the sort of day-to-day oversight that you have given maybe two u.s. attorney. that seems to be the way he s treating jack smith. i have no doubt he ll do those things. but from this point forward, laura, these cases will go, i suspect, in very different directions. they will follow the facts in the law, and so far, from what we ve seen, the facts of these two situations are very different. john, i m really interested, based on your prior role in particular, about the idea of why it is biden was tightlipped about the investigations. obviously, from the doj perspective, there is a level of gravitas that must be assigned, and you don t really want transpar
two 2024 potential candidates investigated by a special council, we ll bring in former fbi director andrew mccabe and former white house council john dean, you got two presidents under investigation, and now by special counsel, both about mishandling of classified documents, there s a fork in the road where each of their behavior seems to go in different directions but very significant, nonetheless to have these investigation absolutely. significant and i think you know, that s what this moment calls for, it calls for the justice department to handle at least at the inception each of these investigations in the same way, and by bringing into especially council to review the biden side of this document is a ago, i think the attorney general has done exactly that, he needs to now resource it in the same way that he has the other special council, he needs to step away from it, not subject it to the sort of day-to-day oversight that you would have given maybe to a u.s. attorney
classified documents, the archives were then alerted, the washington post reported that. in may of 2021, the archives told trump, hey, you have a lot of documents that you need to return. and for eight months, his team and he did not turn them over. then they turned over 15 boxes. then, the archive said, no, there are still more. so for more than a year, about a year and 3 to 4 months, trump and his lawyers and his team refused to return all of the classified documents that they had, and that is why the fbi ultimately had to go search it. it s a very different set of events that happened. and that s why trump is potentially facing violations of espionage act, as well as obstruction. i m looking at your lawyer s notebook, what are you writing. well, to laura s point, i think, yes. the nuances, the minutiae matter to us at 11:00 talking about the stuff. you know, energy drink. when it trickles down to
months, trump and his lawyer and his team refused to return all the classified documents they had, and that is why the fbi ultimately had to go search it. so it s a very different set of events that happened and that is why trump is potentially facing violations of the espionage act as well as obstruction. lawyers you know what well, to laura s point, i believe, yes nuances matter at 11:00 drinking coffee talking about this stuff, energy drink but you know, when it trickles down to voters who don t have you know, the same requisite amount of time. energy, what if they just have other stuff, you know, what are the what are the facts although remember a month from now? what are the things, and i think one of the perils, he talked about is just trump and biden did basically the same they don t know, and that, you know, i m always looking at how is