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providing that the united states reserves and retains complete ownership, possession and control of presidential records. for more than a year, and despite multiple opportunities to remedied situation and return materials that rightly belong to the federal government, donald trump refused to cooperate time and time again. as we know now from the indictment unsealed by the department of justice yesterday, the former president and his personal valet, and now codefendants, walt nauta have both been indicted. trump along faces 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information, and one count of false statements. both men are also charged with one count each of his conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document, corruptly concealing a document, concealing and documents in a federal investigation, and a scheme to conceal. not to has also in charge for making false statements. the government alleges in his indictment that it s not only a passive bystander t ....
states nuclear programs, potential vulnerabilities of the united states and its allies to plan military attacks, to military attack, and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack, end quote. according to the indictment, this is what donald trump did with those state secrets. for the first few months, some boxes to on the stage of an event space known as the white and gold ballroom before they were moved to the business center. then, some boxes were stored in a bathroom, stacked high above the marble floors, surrounding the toilet and blocking access to the bum, shower, not blocking access to the toilet. they were finally moved to a storage room in 2021, piled high along the walls of the room, but this case isn t just about mishandling the highly sensitive documents. the government also alleges the former presidents quote, endeavored to obstruct the fbi and grand darien vista geishas end quote. for a period of time, trump repeatedly ignored the fbi s ....
Make her move towards use the second opportunity in the spotlight to, you know, repair some of that damaged by acting in a more truthful manner. mark that assignment was not a good thing. what do you make of that, mark? you can t use your judge, and you might not like the fact judge has been appointed by a different president, the one you don t like. ironic that this judge was appointed by donald trump himself. what do you make of the selection of the judge? as charlie said, this is how it works in all the federal systems, with respect to assignments. random or if it s determined to be related. it s unclear right now whether judge cannon will retain the case passed the initial phase of it. she is not necessarily going to be the trial judge. but she might be. i will say, the southern district of florida and the 11th circuit, which oversees, ....
Charlie, great reporting from you. charlie savage is a washington correspondent at the u.s. times. he s the author of power wars, the relentless rise of presidential authority and secrecy. mark zain is the executive director and founder of the james madison project. we appreciate your time. joining me now is laurence tribe, professor emeritus at the harvard law school in coauthor of the book, to end a presidency the power of impeachment. larry, good to see you again, it s been a long time. it takes big offense for us to get together and have these conversations. in a piece you wrote with dennis after for the bulwark this week, he wrote quote, in charges resulting from the special counsel s investigation, we finally see a constitutional system asserting itself full force over a defiant scoff law. history tells us that strong institutions prevail over strong personalities in such battles. at least one institutional values are backed by the beliefs and actions of dedicated citizens, and q ....
One has to understand the background here. foreign intelligence services are constantly trying to target and penetrate a president or former president and his or her family. and so, mar-a-lago existed with a giant bull s-eye on the property, and numerous foreign nationals have been exposed publicly as being able to penetrate. what concerns me most, ali, is what we don t know about the counter intelligence challenges at mar-a-lago, and who got their. there s a glimpse of it in the indictment, which refers to the hundreds of thousands of people who trapped through mar-a-lago during the period of interest in this investigation. and mary, there are people, mark zain will tell you, at least a phone will tell you, the u.s., possibly, classifies too much stuff and doesn t declassify things in a timely manner. that wouldn t apply to any of the stuff that s referred to in this indictment. the stuff in this indictment, as frank was saying, refers to ....