Greg Jarrett. All right, Greg, let's start with the fact that they're trying to, the Trump team is trying to dismiss the Florida documents case. Where's that going to go? Well, as I said on the day of the FBI raid, the retention of documents, Steve, by a former president is not a criminal case. It's a civil matter. It's governed exclusively by the Presidential Records Act. So if the government wants records returned, the proper remedy is a civil court action, not a criminal indictment. That's in fact how it was handled in the Bill Clinton case at the time. The DOJ argued an ex-president can keep whatever he wants and a federal judge agreed with that. But here because it's Trump, Biden's attorney general and the special counsel reversed course. They renounced their longstanding position and they went after Trump criminally, even though he had declassification authority while president, which by the way, Joe Biden didn't have when he removed documents.
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Greg Jarrett. All right, Greg, let's start with the fact that they're trying to, the Trump team is trying to dismiss the Florida documents case. Where's that going to go? Well, as I said on the day of the FBI raid, the retention of documents, Steve, by a former president is not a criminal case. It's a civil matter. It's governed exclusively by the Presidential Records Act. So if the government wants records returned, the proper remedy is a civil court action, not a criminal indictment. That's in fact how it was handled in the Bill Clinton case at the time. The DOJ argued an ex-president can keep whatever he wants and a federal judge agreed with that. But here because it's Trump, Biden's attorney general and the special counsel reversed course. They renounced their longstanding position and they went after Trump criminally, even though he had declassification authority while president, which by the way, Joe Biden didn't have when he removed documents.
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