That you read. Moat notably given the chance to avoid prosecution, mr. Trump allegedly did the opposite. According to the indictment, he not only refused to return the documents for many months but he also obstructed justice by enlisting others to destroy evidence and to lie about it. You may stop there. Thank you, you mentioned the indictment against mr. Trump for mishandling classified sensitive security information. That indictment says tend of his presidency, mr. Trump im looking for my indictment here i have it here. Mr. Trump himself ordered that boxes containing classified materials go to maralago. Where he hosted Tens Of Thousands of guests. Then he kept the sensitive materials carelessly about the property as you can see here. Classified documents ended up in a bathroom. A ball room, on a floor strewn about. And when a grand jury subpoenaed the documents, what did donald trump do . The indictment again shows against him what he responded by. Suggesting that his attorney falsel
left office. now, you think about investigation, i m gonna bet your mind goes straight to the events of august 8th last year. you would likely think of the fbi s court authorized search of mar-a-lago. and of the 100 plus classified documents that the fbi found on the premises that. but that is not tonight s news. no, tonight s news centers on a period of time, about two months before that. june 2nd, the events of that day may be key to jack smith s case. tonight, the washington post described the events that took place that day as being of particular importance to investigators in the classified documents case. we had previously known that on may 11th of last year, trump s attorneys received a grand jury subpoena seeking all documents bearing classification marking still in trump s possession. then, we knew that almost a month later, june 3rd, an attorney from the department of justice, and three fbi agents met with trump s lawyers at mar-a-lago to collect those documents fro
hundreds of classified government documents after he left office. now, you think about investigation, i m gonna bet your mind goes straight to the events of august 8th last year. you would likely think of the fbi s court authorized search of mar-a-lago. and of the 100 plus classified documents that the fbi found on the premises that. but that is not tonight s news. no, tonight s news centers on a period of time, about two months before that. june 2nd, the events of that day may be key to jack smith s case. tonight, the washington post described the events that took place that day as being of particular importance to investigators in the classified documents case. we had previously known that on may 11th of last year, trump s attorneys received a grand jury subpoena seeking all documents bearing classification marking still in trump s possession. then, we knew that almost a month later, june 3rd, an attorney from the department of justice, and three fbi agents met with trump s
it s easy to overlook, but donald trump is trying to run out the clock, the slow walk, the many cases against him, enough to win the republican primary before he can be convicted or maybe even tried of a crime. given a recent spate of legal losses for the twice impeached ex president, we re now entering a crucial time in this high stakes test of wills. last week, in appeals court, reinstated the gag order against him in new york. judges in d.c. also rejected his broad claims of presidenti immunity, which prompted tanya chutkan, the jue and jack smith s federal write, quote, defendants for your service as commander-in-chief did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens, and quote. those legal losses haven t curbed his legal team s efforts to escape or at least postpone his prosecutions. at a hearing on friday, his lawyers went as far as to argue a trial in the fulton county, georgia case this year, would const
against the united states? certainly, it s not that sexy. obstruction is still a federal crime and it sticks. it s part and parcel of having a complete disregard for democracy. i m struck by this idea of the retention of documents. the obstruction piece of this. also, this idea that he potentially had the documents out, was sharing them with other people, how does that factor in, legally? it s a separate violation. the espionage act, under 18 usc seven 83, for those following at home, e of that statute, basically prohibits sharing documents that you have, in unauthorized and all of unlawfully. and then handing them or disclosing their contents to someone else. we have known for sometime, donald trump unlawfully retained them. that s another violation of the espionage act. but here, when we re talking about sharing its contents, that something different in kind and degree. if you re showing them with a, it s visitors, possible political donors, or even the foreign countries that we