declassified all these documents. could he have just declassified them all? well, he classified everything in the world. i am president, i can do anything. come on! i m not gonna comment. i don t know the details. i only want to know. that s the justice department taking care of that. this president joe biden s response to the questions about the classified documents stashed away at mar-a-lago, retrieved by the fbi earlier this month, after an affidavit from the justice department. former president also responded and released parts of that affidavit today, claiming quote, the affidavit is heavily rejected. nothing mentioned on nuclear. pure reference at the washington post reporting, classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items fbi agents were looking for in trump s florida home. the problem of course is that we do not know if there is nothing been mentioned on nuclear, because the affidavit heavily we d acted, xxx exclamation point. there s still a lot we
here he is. peter navarro on this very network with our amazing colleague, ari melber. we ll see ari in a moment. on yesterday. the very same die the indictment unsealed today was handed out by a federal grand jury. waging this legal battle not to talk to the committee. not to talk to potentially doj, although you said, tbd. risking going potentially to jail, not to talk to them, but you re out here talking in public. you do realize these investigators can hear you when you talk on tv? we re talking about now, ari, the case law itself, and the constitutionality of executive privilege, testimony and immunity. second key issue in the case is the separation of powers. this committee, this kangaroo committee, is clearly violated the separation of powers. they re not supposed to act as judge, jury and executioner.
you make the important point that the grand jury process is always secret. this justice department has had a very tight-lipped approach from the top. so we have no reason to believe anyone would have known about this outside of the people involved at doj. unsealed today and filed yesterday, the indictment of mr. navarro. there are four people who have been held in contempt for defying congress here. now two of them or half of them are indicted. that definitely is going to weigh on the minds of anyone else looking at the congressional committee. 1,000 people have cooperated. many trump allies, many people who say that they have testimony to defend donald trump s actions that day have cooperated. now today s news of mr. navarro being indicted shows it s a tougher road in this justice department for people who want to play their odds or their
texas. that s his mug shot. another oath keeper guy was arrested in phoenix around the same time. and they along with nine other oath keepers who had already been arrested and charged in the capitol attack in various capacities, the 11 of them today were all indicted on the very serious charge of seditious conspiracy. now, seditious conspiracy is a charge derisive from the concept of sedition. a charge at a prosecutors have been openly mulling since the beginning of the investigation. you might remember when the justice department used to do briefings for the public and press and in the immediate aftermath of the attack they talked not infrequently at the briefings about seditious conspiracy as a potential charge. they did that right away. but now it s of course more than a year after the ache. this is the first time they used it in the indictment unsealed today. and seditious conspiracy basically means a conspiracy to commit sedition, a conspiracy
we are tracking this breaking news, intensifying the open criminal probe into the insurrection. the highest-level indictment today, unsealed today, sedition conspiracy charges against the far-right extremists who plotted to stop biden s win using force. we went through the law and implications. now we turn to the defendants themselves, these people who the justice department says conspired to violently try to stop the election outcome the top defendant is oath keepers stewart rhodes, elected in texas today, facing up to 20 years in prison on the conspiracy count allow. he was planning more action after the insurrection, according to the feds.