potentially classified materials and evidence of crimes. today we learned exactly which laws the justice department had reason to believe may have been violated. what specific items they were searching for and what they took from the immediate past presidents home. here s a second detachment to the warrant. it is titled quote, attachment b. property to be ceased all physical documents and records constituting evidence contraband fruits of crime or other items illegally possessed in violation of 18 u.s. code section 793, 2071 or 1519. that string of numbers i just read is actually a set of federal statutes. 793 for instance is part of what is known as the ex pianist
bret baier now, the warrant gave agency authority to seize all physical documents and records constituting evidence, contraband, fruits of crime or other items illegally possessed in the violation of u.s. code, including documents and classification markings and presidential records, created between january 20, 2017, and january 20, 2021. what can you tell us at this point having looked at it now, bret? bret: we have seen the warrant, the list, it s about seven pages long, both documents and as david was going through, it s specific but not specific of what s in those documents. there s been a lot of reporting about nuclear documents, that s not listed specifically in the paperwork that we have received. however, what s key is this. the list includes references to one set of documents as referenced, various classified, t.s. and s.c.i.
and ty cobb, he was the lawyer in the investigation. two who know more about this than anyone. professor, let me start with you on this reporting about messages wiped from key department of defense officials phones from january 6th. is it possible that this is a random coincidence? no. i mean, i suppose anything is possible. it s possible that all of the air will get sucked out of the room, but when you look at what happened with the secret service and with the department of homeland security and now with the department of defense with keogh figures alls appointed by donald trump, it looks like it s clearly a plot to destroy information that is necessary for ongoing inquiry. that is a serious federal crime under 18 u.s. code section 1519 punishable by 20 years in
intimidate or harass at the residence or at the courts, any judge or any jurists or anyone involved in the judicial proces 18 u.s. code 1507. you re not allowed to do it. for example, it s illegal to enter the country without prope authorization, yet biden is aiding and abetting in lawbreaking. where is merit garland, all he cares about is january 6, is that it? it seems that way. the legislative branch, nancy pelosi waited for weeks to pass legislation to give protection to supreme court justices famil after the assassination threats she waited several days. so this as part of the effort b the left to intimidate the courts. the chairman of the committee has introduced legislation to
distracted, merrick, by some people s claims that we don t really know his state of mind, whatever his state of mind was. keep in mind that even if you genuinely believe that the [inaudible] had stolen $5,780 from you. i use that number because it s familiar from the raffensperger dialogue. even if you still believe [inaudible] break into fort knox or lead an armed mob of the stairs of fort knox, to grab that money, that s what we seem to have seen. so, merrick, i hope you look up the u.s. code, the section on conspiracy, to defraud the u.s., the section on witness tampering, the section on corrupt attempts to impede an official proceeding, inciting or assisting an insurrection. but merrick, you are a great student, you don t need me to remind you of all that. what you need to focus on is how dangerous it would be to let this be held on