circles tonight that the information that was sought, and or, recovered was the information that trump had declassified. that we would have to find out whether he did that while he was president, because the former president cannot take documents and decide to declassify them. if that were true, there would be some evidence of that somewhere, right? there would be some people trail, it would be accessible to you or me, but to people who make determinations about the control of classified information. that can exist. he can't just declassify information in the past. >> the way this works in the government is the sitting president has the authority, has the ultimate authority, on classification. and can make a decision to declassify documents, national security documents, that he or she sees fit. so any declassification that trump would've made what would have to have happened while he was president, once he leaves office, he obviously loses authority of the power. offi>> there was reporting in