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addressed the unprecedented indictment friday. we have one set of laws in this country, and they apply to everyone. if applying those laws, collecting facts, that s what determines the outcome of an investigation. nothing more and nothing less. paul: joining me now is the former attorney general of the united states, michael mukasey. judge mukasey, good to see you. so you ve read the indictment. how strong is it? well, if the facts set forth in there are provable, and a great deal of it indicates that they clearly are, it is very strong. a lot of the evidence comes from his own lawyer who was compelled to testify over a claim of attorney-client privilege based on conversations he had with donald trump that show that he knew that he had classified information. there was, there are two instances in which he met with people on the outside, one a writer, the other a fundraiser. and showed them classified information and said that he knew that he had it and knew that it ....
Contrasted with the activities of the current president when he was vice president in having documents in his possession as well as vice president pence. so it s to make it clear that donald trump s case, in that respect, is different. paul: i want to ask you about that question of a double standard, because i think that s the first thing that comes to mind for a an awful lot of people. they ve read that quitedden had documents going president biden had documents going back to his senate days, a long time ago. and then you have the famous case of hillary clinton and the way she handled classified information on her e-mail server. she was not prosecuted for that, and a lot of people think that was willful and reckless as well. address that question. that it s an excellent question from a public opinion standpoint. and from a fairness standpoint. my own view is the fact that that they should have been that certainly she, i believe, should have been prosecute ared ....