the president of ukraine that manafort was working for.er people told me that. >> why did he decide to come clean with you now? >> i'm not sure. i don't know. he does have a memoir coming out. i think he cares what people outside of trump world think sos about him. the crimes that he was convicted of he was working closely with the to former white house counsel so a lot of the things he was doing in ukraine there were dozens and dozens of people in washington eager to take that money. it's extremely unusual and concerning to have a senior member of a presidential campaign turning over internal data with someone who's in fact a russian spy. manafort even would joke that maybe he was a russian spy. why meet with him and give him this stuff? he said he was trying to build up a reputation with russia. so while he was working for trump he was trying to set up his next gig and how to cash in later. to me this is -- his version of events to put a better picture. he says in politics everything is reputation. i don't think that's true but by his ow

manafort was pardoned by then president trump for bank and tax fraud convictions in 2020. he also oversaw much of trump's 2016 campaign and manafort is now saying that the search of mar-a-lago not only likely increased trump's chances of running in 2024, but manafort warns the search poses a threat to democracy newsnation's. kelli meyer reports. >> new details today of what was inside some of the documents at former president trump's mar-a-lago home. according to a letter from the national archives, trump took more than 700 pages of some of the government's most classified documents. the message to one of trump's lawyers dated may 10th saying the initial review of materials taken from the white house after trump left office identified items marked as classified national security information up to the level of top secret, adding that there are, quote, important national security interest in the fbi and others in the intelligence community to get access to these materials. the highly classified government secrets inside 15 boxes recovered from trump's florida estate in janua

paul manafort joins us in now. had a predawn raid, guns drawn, guys with guns in your face, and your wife's face. the only thing roger stone had that you didn't have was cnn fake news camera. it was all based on a russia collusion live. none of the top fbi officials, none of the top doj officials involved in that conspiracy that went on for years have been held accountable. nobody in the media has been held accountable. tell us, you say political prisoner, you got caught up in all of this and nobody seems to care. nobody has ever protracted, apologized, admitted they got this wrong, put in place things to make sure this never happens again. your reaction all of that? >> unfortunately i think things are getting worse. deja vu all over again. what they are doing with president trump last night, it's a fishing expedition. they are afraid of him, this is a pretty good agenda changer, focus on donald trump. the president is not going to let that happen. but what biden has done, senator rubio said it a few minutes ago on

also, paul manafort will react as he releases his book, "political prisoner today." straight ahead. ♪ ♪ this isn't just freight. these aren't just shipments. they're promises. promises of all shapes and sizes. each, with a time and a place they've been promised to be. a promise is everything to old dominion, because it means everything to you. ♪ ♪ >> sean: on other day with yet another example of our two-tiered justice system. you know, we don't have equal justice or application of our laws any longer. get this, the biden doj is now claiming the heavy-handed arrest tactics used against peter navarro back in june at an airport or completely reasonable and appropriate, calling him a "on particular subject." remember, peter navarro was arrested while getting on an airplane, put in handcuffs. he was then taken, strip-searched, put in leg irons at a federal building that is only 50 yards from his own house, and thrown in a jail cell that they told him housed the guy hinckley that tried to kill president reagan. all over two misdemeanor charges. but the biden justice depar

paul manafort is going to join us next. i can't remember. the time that they put her in leg shackles or or in handcuffs. i don't remember hunter biden the laptop. bout the fbi has had it now for almost two years. i remember hunter's home being, you know, a predawnwn raid at hs home. we know he lied on a gun application. we know that gun ended up in a dumpster and we know that he mentions the big guy, his father a lot. and he's implicated all overot that laptop. and not a finger has been lifted in this case. so this certainly is a two tiered justice system and that should be the pointam that americans take away from this. they don't treat't democrats the way they treat conservatives, period. peter navarro, thank youri for telling our story. we wanted to give you a chance to respond. we appreciate it. ateall right. alsoso remember, it was back in the summer of 2017 former trump campaign manager paul manafort had an fbi raid on his virginia residence. that was part of the years long russia hoax. i got the booke iont right hern front of me. reme

manafort's close ally, mike gates, who was trump's campaign manager, plea to guilty for assisting manafortundry that ukrainian money as well as flying to the fbi. and the unregistered lobbying doesn't end there. trump's first national security adviser, michael flynn, he was also accused of acting as an unregistered agent on behalf of the turkish drones government. but he [inaudible] pled guilty to the [inaudible] before he again ultimately was pardoned by donald trump. there is a man named george papadopoulos, also on the trump campaign team back in 2016, the foreign policy team. he also pleaded guilty for lying to the fbi about contacts with russians, like flood, he was also pardoned by trump in 2020. as well as roger stone. longtime friend, associate, trump advisor, the man who takes credit for convincing trump running for president in the first place. before stones pardon, he was convicted of lying to congress and witness intimidation back in 2019, and sentenced to three years in prison. trump campaign ceo and senior adviser, steve bannon, he's an interesting case. bannon was charged wi

i would argue the same for a process i'm in a case of paul manafort or roger stone.tainly a message was sent here. but here's with the double standard comes in. this is why hunter biden is important. this is why hillary clinton's 33,000 email deletions are important. this is why the dirty dossier is important. this is why lying on fisa applications are important. if i ever lied to a judge i think i would be taken out in handcuffs and shackles too. this is why what sandy berger did is important. now america has the right to ask okay, why did you do this, because i can't conceive of what would warrant the attorney general of the united states and the fbi director to allow and approve this action. can you think of what they might have in the box? >> sean, let me let you win on a dirty secret. >> sean: okay. >> everybody keeps trying to understand these people as though they are reasonable. this is the first big government socialist machine at a national level we've ever seen. we saw tammany hall in new york, we saw mayor daley in chicago. you know, we saw he would long

the treatment of paul manafort, roger stone who we are going to work two.if you are a conservator you'll be treated one way, if you're hillary clinton, biden, you could treat in another way? >> that's precisely why the raid seems rather reckless. the attorney general has to weigh that context. this country is a tinderbox. he has an agency in the fbi that has a documented history of false statements, a documented history of misleading courts. you have to consider that before you approve a raid of this kind. one of the things that struck me with their initial comments on the sources is how they describe this. they told you that there were two things described in the warrant, one a general category of material that should have been turned over to the archives under the presidential records act and the second was a general reference to possibly classified information. if the descriptions accurate, it's very concerning. a first of all, the first category i think you have to set aside, it's not a criminal statute or ordinarily enforced using these types of heavy-

at this location a, paul manafort or roger stone? why the big show? >> only when it's a conservative. because it's donald trump and this is the weaponization for political purposes by the fbi and the department of justice. you're right. sean. re whensi you identify the presidential records act of nineteen sixty eight seventy eight , which is far fromar a model of clarityit and in fact it's one of the more opaque laws you'll ever read one of the problems with it is that iti gives discretion and authoritybe to the incumbent president tont decide what constitutes presidential papers. he may identify, excludeos and dispose of presidential papers. and you point out the classified nature allegedly of some ofre the documents identified by the national archives that are nototl compett agency to recognize classified documents because the president is the ultimate authority in declassifying documents. he may doum so with a wave of hs hand without notification to the national archives. so i think what you're reallyan seeing here is an abuse of power by the fbi a

paul manafort who was pardoned by the former president in 2020 is out with his new book political prisonercuted prosecuted but not silenced. the guardians lloyd green called mr. manafort's book primarily an exercise in score settling pointing an accusatory finger at federal prosecutors and lashing out at enemies. another new book in raising lazarus hope justice and the future of america's overdose crisis. the author follows her award-winning book dope sick with another account of america's opioid crisis. a review dubbed her newest work of profoundly this concerning book that with one look will inspire reform to aid the dope sick and published -- punish their suppliers. the author of the walking dead. how the woke virus destroys our culture. it has been described as a rollicking read targeting left-leaning influence in america. the new yorker recently reviewed a new book the last resort which looks at beachside development. they say it is a chronicle of corrosive tourism which points out the ecological dangers due to the popularity of development on the beach. the national review looked at

look at whato they did to manafort. look at what they did to roger stone. us he'll t join us tonight.ir tacti greg, this is nowc ho their tac they want to harass, intimidate and send a message to everyone else. don't mess with usasa. we're all powerful, all mighty. and the double standard, the dual system of justicee couldn't be any more clear than it is now. t iyeah, i don't question i the integrity of the doj and the fbi. i criticize the utter lack of integrity and rectitude of merrick garland and christopher wray, merrick garlandk today unwittingly, stupidly undermined his own argument when he said our standard practice is use the leastet intrusive method. that's called a subpoenaif. and the fbi did that two monthst ago t. so they were counting on donald trump challenging it so that fo forould then be poised a raid. but trump capitulated. he gave them everything they wanted. so they probably sat back at w the doj and said, now what are we going to do? i well, they should have issued another subpoena if they wanted more documents. i suspect all of that is

paul manafort's home in virginia.aided for 10 hours to seize documents. >> -- manafort and his wife were asleep when the fbi came at 5:00 a.m. brian: also before dawn, early risers, they had to make sure they wouldn't be overpowered by a 70-year-old. >> at 6:00 a.m., s.w.a.t. clad fbi agents arriving in 17 armored vehicles with a helicopter overhead. and dropping off progressmen in the backyard, brandishing assault weapons to arrest me. brian: rudy giuliani. the prosecutor, mayor. peter navarro strip searched and put in handcuffs during his arrest. >> they went through shock and awe. let me go to the airport then take me with five agents like i'm an al~qaeda terrorist. strip searched, leg irons, handcuffs. brian: in a clear attempt to intimidate republicans. but the left isn't being met with the same show of force or any force. we remember hillary clinton smashing iphones with hammers, destroys hundreds of emails. no raid, no fbi. >> though there is evidence of potential violation of the statutes regarding the handlin

andrew knows that from the manafort case. >> and andrew, between donald trump and christina here, andthe other lawyer, he is the lawyer who writes the document, he writes it, but for some reason, he does not want to sign it himself. he lets christina sign. >> that is a smart move. and it is highly suspicious as to why she signed it and he did not. he isn't just as much trouble under aiding and abetting if he knew it was false. and she was going to find it. it is going to be a situation where it is either the lawyers or donald trump is going down, based on that statement. and the lawyers presumably are going to say, hey, i thought it was true because that is what my client told me. the client being donald trump. that is exactly what happened in the paul manafort case, where he told his lawyers to say something and made representations about what they should convey to the department of justice. and we got a court order from the chief judge in d.c. saying about that lawyer, there is no attorney client privilege there. the lawyer can reveal exactly who they learn the information from. and

grack spent nearly three years investigating and prosecuting trump allies michael flynn and paul manafort. interestingly he resigned from the flynn case after a william barr appointee took over in the u.s. attorney's office in dc and moved to withdraw the government's case against flynn. even though flynn by then had already pled guilty twice. he resigned from the flynn investigate and continued the justice department unit that prosecutors unregistered foreign agents. in that role the first official to oversee all foreign influence operations across the u.s. justice department. brandon van grack has since left the justice department but boy there is nobody i would rather talk to tonight about what is going on in our country with these remarkable and unprecedented charges and investigations involving the former president. brandon van grack joins us live here in the studio next. when hurting feet make you want to stop, it's dr. scholl's time. our custom fit orthotics use foot mapping technology to give you personalized support, for all-day pain relief. find your relief in store or online. i

you look at paul manafort, who was the campaign manager for donald trump.s brought out against paul manafort, despite there being rampant by elation 62% used against michael flynn. this is a 1799 statue that is never in history of this country been used to successfully prosecute anyone. but it's used as a pretext to go in and look at michael flynn. why are never before used statutes, or rarely used statutes being used in this manner? it raises questions as the fbi doesn't go out after larry nassar the way they should've initially. especially as one-third of portland writer cases are dropped. you know especially when you look at the abortion facilities that you seem like you to drink the doj to look into some of these inquiries. why weren't there raids in these contacts but as a rate here? >> when you talk about not just grades but also the hunger for the truth, the assassination attempt on a sitting u.s. supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. there were think questions for things -- of course we could put hunter biden on that list but there is a current inv

if you're paul manafort and you commit a fair a violation or tax violation, again hardly crimes dangerous to society, another massive predawn raid, guns pointed at your face, your wife's face, followed by months of solitary confinement to break you. by the way, his new book out, you should read it, it's called political prisoner, it's out by the way tomorrow, paul manafort will be on the show tomorrow, you need to read that book. if you're peter navarro you get charged with a misdemeanor and get shackled at the airport for a misdemeanor handcuffed thrown in jail the same cell john hinkley was thrown in the guy who tried to assassinate ronald reagan. now the 45th president of the united states has been targeted by an early i didn't have morning raid and not only did agents show up in force, guns drawn, to the former president's home but also demanded that the security cameras be turned off and they even blocked the president's attorneys from observing the search. now why would they do that? how many years have we fought for bodycams on police to keep everybody honest? why wouldn't you want

michael flynn, steve bannon, roger stone, paul manafort, this is about a crime syndicate and that we've fully to terms with. >> yeah. sarah and peter, thank you to both of you. here we are on a friday night. we're covering this story, this special edition of "the beat." we're going to broaden out and take a breath and take this word we keep hearing, unprecedented, unprecedented and there is reason why we've been working that this week. well michael beschloss will walk us through it when we take as breath when we come back. finding the perfect developer isn't easy. but, at upwork, we found her. she's in prague, between the perfect cup of coffee and her museum of personal computers. and you can find her, and millions of other talented pros, right now on upwork.com for people living with h-i-v, keep being you. and ask your doctor about biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v in certain adults. it's not a cure, but with one small pill, biktarvy fights h-i-v to help you get to and stay undetectable. that's when the amount of virus is so low it cannot b

grack spent nearly three years investigating and prosecuting trump allies, michael flynn and paul manafortly, mr. van grack ultimately resigned from the flynn case, after a william barr appointee took over the u. s. attorney's office in d. c., and moved to withdraw the government's case against flynn. even though, flynn by then had already pled guilty twice. he resigned from the flynn investigation but the state of the justice department. it continued to leave the justice department fairer unit, the office that prosecute on which is third foreign agents. and that role, he became the first official to oversee all foreign influence operations across the u.s. justice department. brandon van grack has since left the justice department, but boy, there is nobody who i would rather talk to tonight about what's going on in our country with these remarkable and unprecedented charges and investigations involving the former president. brandon van grack joins us here live in studio, next. new astepro allergy. now available without a prescription. astepro is the first and only 24-hour steroid free spra

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to heavy-handed raids against trump associates without any clear necessity so let's review paul manafortome in virginia rated by one dozen agents for ten whole hours to see some documents. >> they were on fbi agents entering the condo without warning at 6:00 a.m. >> they tried to break him putting him into solitary confinement he was the campaign manager. roger stone had to be sure by the 70 -year-old. >> certainly would have turned myself in bed at 6:00 o'clock a.m. swat clad fbi agents with 17 armored vehicles with the helicopter overhead to amphibious units all of them brandishinge fully automatic assault weapons stormed my home to arrest me. another 6:00 a.m. raid. bad knee bad back fat heart. but with that congressional subpoena. >> we went to the shock and awe. let me go to the airport and then five agents like al qaeda terrorist and the next thing we know leg iron in man cuffs and strip-searched. >> the fbi is acting like a bunch of thugs. and a clear attempt to intimidate republicans but the problem is the left is not met with the same show of force or cany force. remember hillar

paul manafort has a biographer that is coming out with a book, and he is the first campaign manager,nd he was involved in russia, and ukraine, and, paul manafort admitted that he gave pulling information to russia. i think everyone out here should wait until everything comes out. sometimes it does not come out. but the truth will come out. thank you. host: david, new york, democrat. morning. caller:? how are you? my stories this. everything we see going on today is about population. a few years, caucasians will no longer be the majority, which means in a democracy, the majority rules, but what we're seeing right now is ways to prevent that, which means changing the voting laws or abortion laws, and making things such that that doesn't happen. people need to pay attention. it is coming soon. for them to lose the power and control of the nation they started, to people who they consider to be beneath them, scripture says the first will be last in the last will be first. host: cnn is reporting this. a document unsealed yesterday offers specifics about the crimes that have been investigat

to talk about this is paul manafort, who made the mistake with no pay whatsoever of managing donald trumphim to prison for years. he spoke publicly for the first time on joe biden's role and influence in ukraine. it's all part of the longer "tucker carlson today." here is part of it. ♪ ♪ >> biden was the link -- every couple of months, and did something that -- he arrested and convicted them for cutting a deal with russia and the room was supposed to. there was evidence there that she was paid by the russians. it was about $100 million for giving them the be. >biden stays needed -- "you don't come in democracies, go after your political opponents." it was all over the news back then, so now, i find it interesting. all things are about ukraine, even if they don't have to do with ukraine these days. he was there, and aidan hunter by -- what i didn't know was all of the lobbying he was doing in washington. it was a company. it was a political business. there was an idea that he would get -- somehow. hunter biden, all over ukraine. something that hadn't even been reported. >> so this was a gu

where they are over ra reacting, deliberately humiliating people, i listened to a podcast with paul manafortn prison, kept in solitary confinement for 8 months, you are watching a corrupt department out of control, 98% of its money to hillary clinton in 2016 of the people who were donating who worked that the department, senior justice -- z the senior fbi is clearly corrupt and dishonest, there is some theory, they went in aggressive hly because trump moved to declassify and release fbi documents relating back to the russian hoax and degree that fbi had senior levels, had knowingly been flyinbly -- been lying about the russian hockhoax and zuckerberg claims he was asked by the fbi to block distribution of hunter biden happen top over the investigation, you have stuff done by the fbi that makes no sense, if it is a law up enforcement agency. mark: you make a good point. part fbi could be trying to cover its back side, based on what may or may not be at mar-a-lago. this is we know president trump was very upset about what was done to him, correctly so, any citizen would be with this phony russ

paul manafort, the russian lawyer at trumper tower. and the e-mails that were hacked many believe our intelligence community was hacked actually mine were caught up in that and it was no fun. so i don't know how it was wrong to say there something going on between russia's desire and those e-mails fed into the ecosystem and popping up in the press. 2 >> that's a fair question and as a said repeatedly live on the airir and attack on one party is an attack on all parties i regularly denounced russia did i don't think as much to elect donald trump into herhe hillary clinton they did not like her as secretary of state and then to weaken the democracy. that's what motivated russia but then the press went into overdrive to put numerous stories especially cnn thated they later had to retract all said donald trumpck has colluded withnc the dnc and that campaign. russia is a guilty party sanctioning the officials but that had nothing to do with donald trump to be involved in this was a feeding frenzy i objected to but i tried to call balls and

paul manafort, who went through a predawn raid, guns drawn

and you know, to take paul manafort, for instance. many years i think the crimes were committed, we did a search of his, home and we found tons of documents that were incriminating, that he had not gotten rid of. so, defendants don't always act in a way that is in their best interest, in terms of cleaning up the crime scene. >> mark, tonight, following this fbi search, former president trump's fundraising off of it. conservative media are pushing the fund the fbi, defund these government agencies. does the maga crowd, does that conservative audience even know, as we hear them attacked the fbi, the fbi director, christopher wray, was nominated by donald trump himself! >> i can't say what's the maga crowd fully believes are what they don't believe. but, to the earlier point here, to the ability for folks to say oh, donald trump can get disqualified. he plans to run for president, he's all but confirmed he will, the question is when he'll make the announcement. and there's been more than 200 off the seekers, republicans, who have sought

likewise do not believe that the president's public statements exhorting witnesses, like flynn, manafort, stone or cohen, not to flip should be viewed as obstruction of justice. that means that the two authors of this bill are the only federal prosecutors in history who do not know what flip means. it is, of course, the term traditionally used by gangsters and donald trump to mean a witness engaged in criminal conduct who flips and decides to tell the truth in court about that criminal conduct. joining us now is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and former chief of the criminal division in the eastern district of new york. he is professor of practice and i-20 at nyu law school and an msnbc legal analyst. andrew, i want to first get your view of what you expect tomorrow at noon when the judge gets the justice department's proposed redactions of that affidavit. >> so, lawrence, i love that you are really optimistic about what we might expect tomorrow. [laughs] but i think that what we should expect tomorrow is nothing. that submission is going to be given to the court under seal

for news anytime, foxnews.com, hannity.com, don't forget paul manafort's new book, "political listener." i couldn't stop reading it. i read it cover to cover, it was phenomenal. you can get it in bookstores everywhere, amazon.com and hannity.com. i think you learn a lot. in the meantime, let not your heart be troubled. laura is next, she's got a killer show tonight. >> laura: you bet, and they want a lot of political prisoners, don't they? they don't want just a few, they want the whole prison full of political prisoners. >> sean: in case you don't know, you're on the list, you are way ahead of me. >> laura: you know what i say to the people who don't like me? get in line. get in line. doesn't bother me one bit. we've been in his business to long. >> sean: we get as much hate and threats as anybody else, we just don't talk about it. do you want to give you the list? >> laura: those are just from me, hannity. >> sean: [laughs] >> laura: thanks, hannity. i've got to go. with got some big news, apparently. i'm laura ingraham, this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. my angle

he wasn't arrested, people in the obama administration deal with the same guy manafort did?u targeted manafort because he worked for trump. i think the bar snappedded. i have never seen in my 10 years doing commentary reaction like this. people on my facebook page, i had one guy, state trooper, listen, i was really thinking about desantis to consider him many 2024, this guy's not political, this trump hinge, 100% now. now i know why they're so afraid of this guy. will: i think you're exactly right on the motivation. how do you see playing out? what will this result in? >> i think it's going to result in a potential trump win in 2024, i think it's going to galvanize voters in 2022, and i think donald trump understands -- i met with him -- will: do you think it'll end up in an indictment? >> yeah, i do. matter of fact, if you lay anton's piece, he lays out plan a through plan f, one of this is to try to the indict him. he'll get annihilated in court -- [inaudible conversations] yeah, i think you're right, they're going to lose, they're clearly going to lose. and also, you know

> sean: in light of the rate of mar-a-lago and what they did to roger stone and in light of paul manafortave done to peter navarro, how many years have they had this laptop and based on miranda devine's book, the laptop from, don't you know that there are evidence of crimes on that laptop, and he took them on and a pretty hard way and whatever happened to that? >> going on three years the fbi has had possession of this laptop, and it is not the personal behavior that is most interesting, it is a chinese business deals and the expectation that jill biden himself will personally profit off of the work that hunter biden is doing at the expense of our fellow americans meeting the chinese embassy, licenses from the communist party that hunter could not get without the help of his father and the access that the vice president provided. sean, this is a crime spree we are witnessing in progress and i think the very reason why the department of homeland security wants to ratchet down on our discourse and our dissent is because they know how vulnerable and compromised the first family is and we are

the direct analogy is, that is exactly what happened with paul manafort.false representation to the department of justice. we charged paul manafort with lying to the department of justice. he pled guilty to that. the lawyer was simply a conduit for the principal's lie. if that's what happened here, then donald trump is the one who will bear the brunt of the department of justice's wrath. >> andrew, good morning. it is jonathan. one of the numerous excuses we heard over recent days from the former president is the idea that all these documents were declassified, whether there was a standing order he always had at the white house, which john bolton said it was not true, or he'd never heard of it, or he had declassified them upon his departure from office. presidents have broad declassification powers. walk us through, though, there is a process, right? it is not just waving a magic wand. is there any evidence that that process was enacted, and then does it even matter? shouldn't he have not had the documents, whether they were classified or not? >> great que

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maybe be witnesses in the special counsel investigation there is an analogous situation where paul manafort and rick gates, the campaign manager deputy campaign manager had make recommendations to the justice department through an attorney. that attorney was totally unwitting, and clearly did not know that she was making a false representation. but chief judge hallow letters put iran on as a witness, and to ask her questions about where she got the information from. and i could definitely see the department following that. they have clear precedent from the chief judge of the city district court, and i think for those two lawyers one of the things that, if they are witnesses, they can also be council. that's one reason to bring on additional people. >> i was impressed that anybody wanted to sign on to this, case given how complicated it has been for president trump >> i think there are other reasons as well, that you might not sign on to it. i think as a friend of mine, professor mary has said, maga could be making attorneys get attorneys. and so that's the trend -- >> right, that's an insi

which i think highlights that, yasmin, is they actually say that when donald trump was urging flynn, manafort and stone and cohen not to flip, that wasn't obstruction of justice, that was donald trump believing that if they cooperated, the prosecutors would make them lie about donald trump. this memo reads throughout like the author is saying, look, donald trump has the best intentions in everything he said and did and i'll tell you, it makes experienced prosecutors heads hurt when they read that kind of so-called legal analysis any new insight, glenn, into former bill barr? >> a little bit. and would you say because this memo was published on the very day bill barr stepped to the camera and, i'm going to use the words of judge reggie walton, when he ruled that bill barr mischaracterized the mueller report, and spun the mueller report and, quote, bill barr lacks candor. the fact that they issued this memo as cover for him to do precisely what he did on the same day he did it, sort of tells you the whole thing feels like more public relation an less legal analysis. >> we're going to be watchin

with guns drawn, 30 people at a time, fake news cnn cameras at roger stone's raid then the paul manafort raid then other trump associates. the same organization that let hillary clinton off the hook for mishandling a ton of top secret and classified materials on an unsecured private server, multiple servers actually. because, according to comey, no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case. the same people that would let her get away with obstruction of justice deleting 30,000 e-mails acid washing her hard drive with bleach bit and destroying any devices that might have those e-mails with hammers and removing sum cards take a look. >> we did not findest secretary clinton or her colleagues intended to, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive highly classified information. although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. >> sean: oh. law's been broken but no prosecutor would charge her. the organization tha

he therefore had no corrupt intent when he tried to obstruct, when he dangled pardons before paul manafort, when he told white house counsel don mcgahn to retract his testimony. >> what about, harry, why did the doj argue to keep this redacted? why did they not want to release this memo in full? >> you know, it's a pretty embarrassing document, although it's a good point, because it's obviously written for eventual public consumption. but it's a -- as ken said, it's a very tendencious document and at certain stress points, it gives an unsupportable view of the facts and the law, and then finally, besides playing in that respect, it actually gives the -- the real problem here on the number one thing that screams out, they determined that there should have been a bottom-line determination, mueller had determined not. why, then, not give it to mueller and it's clear from one line in the memo, it's because they really didn't trust his bottom line conclusion if he were asked to give one. so, it was taken from him and given to steve engel and the two political officials. that's controversial. >>

the paul manafort case, for example. he was found to be guilty of lying to the justice department, through his lawyers. and his lawyers were put on the stand to say, well, who told you that this was the case? in this instance it would be, who told you there was no longer any classified information at mar-a-lago? my client did. and it's kind of end of story if that is what happened. >> so, david, trump was given multiple opportunities to comply before 30s searched his house. did he -- why did he choose to hold on to this classified information? they still boggles my mind. i don't understand it. what value would it be for him to hold on to this when he knew that the archives and investigators were looking to get it back? >> so, john kelly, it's a great piece in the washington post put out earlier today, said it is arrogance. that trump was dismissive of intelligence officials. he thought their presentations were sort of unimpressive. he would routinely take classified documents during the briefings and keep him for himself

that's, in fact, what we did with paul manafort, and he pled guilty to it. on the other hand, the lawyer just did on his own, and it was false. that also is gonna lead to potential charges. and you can be sure that the department of justice is gonna be all over that representation. >> andrew weissmann and bradley moss, thank you very much for starting us off tonight. really appreciated. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> almost certainly a lie, those are the exact words of what donald trump's national security adviser said about one of the possible defenses donald trump has offered for having classified material, illegally stored at his home in florida. glenn gerstell, former counsel for the national security agency, will join us next. so, you're 45. that's the perfect age to see some old friends, explore new worlds, and to start screening for colon cancer. yep. with colon cancer rising in adults under 50, the american cancer society recommends starting to screen earlier, at age 45. i'm cologuard, a noninvasive way to screen at home, on your schedule. and i find

rod blagojevich, and he came out attacking and andrew cuomo, former governor of new york, and paul manafort the former president. >> andrew cuomo, disgraced governor of new york and democrat taking a step back on the political stage this way. eyebrows up for that. alayna treene, thank you for being up this morning. and thanks for you for getting up "way too early" on this wednesday. "morning joe" starts right now. >>> trump supporters think biden knew about the raid beforehand but the white house said he didn't. biden one day he's completely senile, the next, he knows

he took steps that most people believe were obstructing, including dangling a pardon before paul manafortstructing his white house counsel to change his testimony, firing the fbi director. and so many, many federal prosecutors who ultimately read the evidence laid out in the mueller report said that any normal person who wasn't president would have been prosecuted for obstruction of justice. but that was not the conclusion of these lawyers nor attorney general bill barr. andrea. >> ken dilanian on top of it all. thank you so very much. and barbara, of course. and josh dawsey, thanks to you. and at a time when threats against law enforcement are at an all-time high we are getting a rare look behind the scenes of that tense standoff between law enforcement and the man who tried to shoot his way into a cincinnati be fbi field office. authorities have not confirmed a motive yet, but the suspect did post a social media post about his desire to kill fbi agents after the mar-a-lago search. the new video shows the dramatic chase to a corn field and critical decision-making in real time before the

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