it s on tape as part of this endeavor that he did not classify the material therefore saying he could have, saying he could ve is not the same as saying he didn t. he said no i can t he has to classify this material. he s not president now but when he was president. which means it s declassified, which means that that if he declassified it when he was president but he is saying point blake in this audiotape that he did not declassified. that was republican congressman and house judiciary chairman jim jordan spewing the usual gop disinfo. this morning on cnn. i m joined now by democratic congressman eric swalwell. republicans like jordan have proven time and time again that they will always fall in line with trump no matter what he
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before trump attorney one s june 2nd review so many boxes were not searched and many documents responsive to the may 11 subpoena could not be found and were in fact not found by trump attorney one. in plain english this alleges trump instructed his aide to help him remove sensitive documents in defiance of a federal subpoena. a, does that trouble you and, b, if he thought he had the right to have these documents, why was he trying so hard to hide them? no, it doesn t bother me because again you can t have obstruction of something when there was no underlying crime. the standard is set. the standard is what the constitution says. the commander-in-chief, the president of the united states, has the ability to classify and control access to information. that s what the constitution and the court have said. you can t obstruct you can t obstruct when there is no underlying crime. he is not the president of the united states. that is the fundamental flaw. when he was president he
june 2nd review so many boxes were not searched and many document res spoponsive to the 11th subpoena could not be found and were not found by trump attorney one. in plain english, trump instructed his aide to help move boxes in defiance of a federal subpoena. a, does it trouble you and b, if he thought they were the right to have the documents why was he trying so hard to hide them? it doesn t bother me because again, you can t have obstruction of something when there was no underlying crime. the standard is set. the standard is what the constitution says and the commander in chief, the president of the united states has the ability to classify and control access to information. that s what the constitution the united states you can t obstruct you can t obstruct he is not the president of the united states. that is a fundamental flaw. and you re just taking when he was president he declassified the material. he says point-blank on tape
people have talked about including you of the unequal treatment of donald trump but it does do a good job of setting up the government s case. i want to play a moment from andy mccarthy today on fox about part of trump s defense. i have personally never been blown away by his claim which his lawyers won t repeat it in court and there s no documentary evidence of that he declassified everything it wouldn t be a defense in an espionage case because the espionage app doesn t speak about classified information that speaks about national defense information. is he correct about that? is a little bit wrong. but yes that s why they charge under 793 e. so they don t have to deal with that issue. this is a very defensible case there are different defenses of different elements for sure.