Good news for Joe Biden and at the same time, pretty bad news for Donald Trump, or at least enraging news. The special counsel's investigation into the Joe Biden section of the classified documents brouhaha of the past year is apparently winding down, and the report is expected to come out sometime in the next few months. [00:00:18] But long before that, we already know, apparently, according to leaks from CNN, where this thing is going, and it is, that it's gonna be sharply critical of Biden and his allies handling of classified documents, but it isn't gonnaresult in a criminal case. [00:00:34] So the expectation is that they're gonna be criticized for having some of these documents and then willingly giving them back, but he is not going to be facing any charges for that. I had not thought about the Biden section of this quite a, I don't, I don't really know how surprised I should be. [00:00:50] We've known for a long time that what they did is very different. Biden has maintained that nothing he did was illegal. It might have been accidental or whatever. But his lawyers notified the Justice Department once they found the documents, [00:01:05] and there's every indication that they cooperated all along in the attempt to recover those documents. We have a couple of bits of the communication between the Biden team and the National Archives Justice Department, and so look at the tone that they strik. [00:01:20] In terms of taking custody to any papers, yes, we are prepared to facilitate whatever access you need to accomplish NARA, taking custody of whatever materials it seems appropriate. Other correspondence includes things like at your convenience, and I can be reached anytime on my cell. [00:01:36] So, look, if they were talking like that and then not giving the documents back, then that would be worth nothing. But there is no indication that they did anything other than try to be as accessible and helpful as possible, obviously, on the Trump side, and that's sort of looming the background of this, [00:01:52] the stance is very different, up to and including right now, actually. And so it is possible that the report will go in a different direction, but there are a couple of sources implying that he will not be facing charges. Brett, what do you make of that? >> Speaker 1: I think this is just hilarious. [00:02:08] It's basically reinforces this idea that the reason Trump is getting in so much trouble for it is that when he realized he was wrong, he didn't just say that. Now that posture that Trump takes, which is like, [00:02:23] I've never done anything wrong in my entire life, really does benefit him when he does something kind of like morally bad but not illegal, and just denies that it's bad, says I won't apologize. And then to his benefit, he just appears defiant in the face of naysayers. [00:02:42] But in a legal scenario, this backfires so wildly. And he's trying to play the same card that he would play if it was just like an access Hollywood moment, right? This is him trying to say that, I am perfect, everything I do is legally great, even though it's very obvious it's not. [00:03:01] And when Biden himself was like, documents, take them, I don't care. Biden actually did the right thing in that scenario. Trump did not, and Trump's gonna face the legal consequences and Biden should not face the same legal consequences that Trump should. >> Speaker 1: Yeah, look, no matter what they did, no matter how big the differences are, and [00:03:18] we'll go through the differences between the Biden team and the Trump team. Trump allies, Trump loyalists are going to say that this is the deep state, and we'll get some of that from Trump, but we're not coming swooping in at the end and trying to justify it. [00:03:35] From the very beginning, we have been tracking the way that both of these groups have dealt with what they're being accused of. And it's been very different from the very beginning. I know a lot of you watching this have been watching from the beginning, so don't find this to be, like, super surprising. [00:03:50] [MUSIC]