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And so how else can you avoid jail time? you can plea in exchange for leniency. we ve seen lots of people including reality winner, a very how prime file case, plead for leniency and still get jail time. what can he offer prosecutors other than his confession, his cooperation? this is a crime he can only commit because he was in high public office. spiro agnew use that is a get out of jail free card. it s not just that he was vice president, it was the prosecutors assumed that nixon was about to become president. in order to keep agnew out, they traded him jail nine for his resignation. i m not saying what that that s what the doj should agree to or what the defense would offer, i m not saying it would be good or bad for the country, one other time we ve dealt with this is a country, that s how we did it. what s fascinating about this theory is that donald trump s face an extreme miasma problems from georgia to new ....
Record, that did not meet the definition of presidential records, well, then they would send it back to mr. trump as personal information. but he does not get to just call his own anything that he wishes. that s not in the law at all. and i do think sometimes the reason he keeps making these admissions, besides the fact that he can t control himself and he can t ever admit he did anything wrong is i think he s trying to sort of convince the population that he had no intent to break the law. he was just complying with the law. the problem is that s based on a legal fiction. you know, claire, first of all, saying it was in with my socks and my clothes is not the own donald trump thinks it is. republicans are trying to argue that our top secret and nuclear information was safer in his gold bathroom than it was in joe biden s garage. but if you re saying that your care for national security is limited to you throwing national ....
Documents a president decides to take with him, he has the right to do so. it s an absolute right. this is the law. mary, please fact check that. well, it s not the law. it s not whatever documents the president decides to take with him when he leaves the oval office are his documents. the presidential records act explicitly made clear in law that presidential records, records of official business that are not just purely personal records are not the president s property. they re not the former president s property. they are the public s property. they are the government s property. and so that s why the national archives reached out the donald trump after he left the white house from mar-a-lago and said we need all of these records back. you know, when they first reached out, they weren t necessarily suspecting that there was classified information in those boxes. they just knew they were presidential records, and it was their duty as the archivists to go through the boxes. and if ....
Have this dance that they re not going to be able to do on a high-wire without a safety net where you re defending the indefensible, while at the same time trying to keep the cult in place and in order. and they re not doing a very good job of it, joy. you see it in the clips that you played at the outset. you can see the tension. you can see the wheels turning behind kevin mccarthy and these others because they know the frankenstein monster that is now out there and about is the determiner of their fate. and they also know that if they pull back their support, trump will go on a jihad against the republican party and/or run as an independent and absolutely doom their chances, not foernl the presidency, but to old on to the house and maybe even recapture the senate. yeah, it s like a gordian knot, jason, that they can t get out of. you look at the polling numbers, and only 35% of republicans think that donald trump illegally stole classified documents. okay. 91% were democrats. ....