we will look for that defense as
well.
thank you for your time.
>> thank you.
>> former attorney general bill
barr who served in the trump
association.
mr. attorney general, welcome
back.
>> thank you.
>> what about this argument that
comes up for the president's
allies and legal team but
should've been handled under the
presidential act not the
espionage act charging other
federal statutes here.
>> it started under the
presidential records act and the
archives trying to retrieve
documents that trump had no
right to have speared it quickly
became clear that what the
president was really --
government was really worried
about was these classified and
sensitive documents.
i was shocked by the degree of
these documents and how many
there were, quite frankly.
the government's agenda was to
get those, protect those
documents and get them out.
i think that it was perfectly
appropriate to do that.
it was the right thing to do.
that counts under the espionage
act that he willfully...