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Indictment. of course i think others will argue these things are not apples or apples at all. what i suspect is where you ll see some of the comments from trump world as part of that damage control. chuck, forget team trump figuring out how they do protect him and figure out their next communication tonight, don t an awful lot of him, especially their lawyers need to worry about their own hides tonight. i m pretty sure months ago some of his lawyers signed off on what they were sending back to the government saying we re clean. we have nothing here. aren t they worried they could be on the hook. ldpotentially, yes. this goes back to matt miller s really important point about obstruction. so if a lawyer told the united states department of justice that there s nothing else here, there are no classified documents, there s nothing pursuant to the presidential records act, you have everything. we turned it over and that s not true, the next question is why ....
Members of congress can t but there was really sort of this shroud around a president and their powers and so many things they couldn t be prosecuted for. the fact that all of this is happening now that he is simply a private citizen, one that doesn t have security clearance anymore, could that mean things are different as far as what he could be prosecuted for? you know, things are different. we always talk about how nobody is above the law, but when somebody is president, they have authorities and powers that you and i simply don t have, stephanie. i can t pardon anyone. nor can you. there s a department of justice policy, policy only not statute but policy, that says you can t charge, indictment a sitting president. they could charge you or me. so there are factors and facts about being president that just don t pertain to anyone else. but he s not the president now. and i think andrew makes a very strong case for why he should be treated just like anyone else and why the obstruct ....
Department of justice, a grand jury subpoena, and it mainly makes clear why a search warrant was needed because all of this material would not have come to light. the department had been given a certification that was demonstrably false that everything had been produced and the photo that everyone can see right now which i thought was just brilliant for the department to include so people could see exactly what was found, completely shows that obstruction of justice, not just the taking of highly sensitive information, but also lying about it. let s bring chuck rosenberg back into this conversation. chuck, i m thinking back to when trump was in office and people would be tearing their hair out saying, why is he allowed to do this? common people aren t. other people in the administration aren t. ....
Years after the end of the administration. so this is really a three-part story now at this point. it s after a year of the national archives trying to get these documents. they got those they got that initial set of 15 documents that included 14 documents that had classified information in them in january and then in june, more classified documents and then finally when they searched the place they found a boat load more classified documents that donald trump wasn t supposed to have. again, setting aside the fact that he wasn t supposed to have any of these government records under the presidential records act, stephanie. matt, we keep talking about, oh, classified documents. but we don t actually know what those documents are. talk to us about the national without knowing the specific content, help us understand the type of documents they would be, what kind of national risks does it pose for us, national security risks, i mean. well, it could be a number of things. look at w ....
Archives, and they say, look, if the presidents and former presidents had an issue, the issue would be can the archives give the documents to the executive branch, lawyers at the department of justice and the fbi but it s not that any of these documents would go back to donald trump and the department says, that s another reason why you don t need special master to review them because they re not yours. normally you have a special master to try and sift through documents that are yours. these are documents that belong to the executive branch. i want to bring ryan riley back in. ryan, as i m sitting here thinking they had over 100 documents seized, stuff was out of folders, time magazine cover, pictures, that s just at ....