process, and there can be a process and there doesn t have to be, but when you send it, it is declassified, and so i declassified everything. all of this after another stunning legal blow to former president, and another $250 million lawsuit brought against him and his three adult children by the new york attorney general to prevent them to work in new york state. and joining me is vaughan hillyard and barbara mcclain and so vaughan, curious interview with hannity last night. yes, on hannity last night on fox, and he pushed back against the letitia james investigation last night, but as it comes to the declassified documents as
of his scandals. there s so much to unpack. i have the experts, let s bring in our legal panel. sadie is a justice department, and barbara mcclain is here she s an msnbc legal analyst, a law professor at the university of law school barbara, let me start with you. there were some markings of the documents when they may be unfamiliar from the people at home. this one in particular. this acs as an sam. what does that mean, and what could the consequences be if documents with those markings and up in the wrong hands? simon, that indicates that there is human confidential sources. that is the designation used for sources of information around the world. we may have assets that are handled by the cia, and russia and other kinds of countries. there are people that are gathering secrets from their own government and sharing it
it shows a consciousness of guilt when you re lying about something you have because it suggests that you know it s illegal to have it. and that the truth. i think it matters that these documents were declassified. regardless of the classification, he should not have had these documents. these were some of the most sensitive secrets as we discuss. trump and his allies are arguing that he had the authority to declassify anything he wanted. in my experience i know that s not true. i know you all know that s not true. but let s just say for arguments sake, if the president wanted to declassify a document, specifically one marked each cs, for example, what might that process look like, barbara? it would require going to the agencies and saying to the agencies i would like to declassify this because they
i think you re seeing a lot of nervousness now in washington and capitals around the world. peter baker, barbara mcclain, rhea, thank you so much. we covered a lot on this friday evening. coming up next, the world s richest man says he s backing out of his deal to buy twitter. but it s not that easy, it s not like canceling a dinner reservation. and later, what the end of roe means. for our already strained foster system. we ll talk to someone who knows the problems foster parents already face and what might be next. the 11th hour just getting underway on this friday night. underway on this friday night.
as history shows, assassinations and political violence to have a contagious kind of quality to it. i think you re seeing a lot of nervous is now in washington and capitals around the world. peter baker, barbara mcclain, rhea, thank you so much. we covered a lot on this friday evening. coming up next, the world s richest man says he s backing out of his deal to buy twitter. but it s not that easy, it s not like canceling a dinner reservation. and later, what the end of roe means. we ll talk to someone who knows the problems foster parents already face and what might be next. the 11th hour just getting underway on this friday night. and what might be next