This isn't venting like to you or something like that, and the criminal intent there could very well be met because it doesn't require completion, it just requires an attempt to try and do something that is illegal.
Katyal explains that the president's conversation with Whitaker could indicate criminal intent, regardless of whether any action was taken.
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The party seems so, unfortunately, in the pocket of Donald Trump, that is a possibility.
Delay is the name of this game, and they know the prospects before the Court of Appeals are quite weak.
If I had seven folders in my Justice Department office, that -- or seven classified documents, top secret ones in my office, I`d be in jail just for having those documents in my office.
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