ndi, meaning national defense information. let s get to jessica schneider. the biggest revelations from this redacted affidavit? so, a lot of intricate and quite frankly startling details about the hundreds of pages of documents that the national archives worked for months to get back from mar-a-lago. so, most of this 37-page affidavit addresses the 15 boxes of material they finally got back in january of this year. 14 of those 15 boxes contained classified information. here s how it is broken down. 184 unique documents bearing classification markings, 67 of those marked confidential, 92 marked secret. 25 marked top secret. particularly alarming to the intelligence experts we ve been hearing from is there were, in fact, hcs markings on some of these documents, meaning that s information actually greened from human sources, that if that information is revealed, it could endanger the lives of people secretly working around the world for the government. these documents were
well, number one, donald trump is no longer president. and he s a private citizen. so that would be fine, we can have that debate as to whether how to declassify documents. he s just not it anymore. and the process is not in your mind on the back of an envelope in a tweet, in a whatever. that s that s kind of frivolous. the second argument, that is that he can t be prosecuted actually, if you look at that, they make the argument that he s no longer president, he s no longer an officer, technically under that statute it s not satisfied. he s sort of arguing out of both sides of his mouth. i wrote a book on the constitution, i have 90 law students this semester, most of the time you teach lawyers, law students, there s two sides of every argument. the goal is to figure out what they are. i don t see the other side of this argument. i don t see a legitimate defense from this person, donald trump, we call him a former president,
without his testimony, it will be difficult to determine what was said in that conversation unless, of course, president trump decides to discuss it himself as he has done in other occasions, on other elements of this impeachment inquiry. my money is on kelly o. to get him to talk about it on the lawn one day this week. my money is always on kelly o., too. i ll take up the challenge. we ll stand by and come back to you when you get something from the north lawn. thank you, kelly o. let me bring in kim wailly, former u.s. attorney and also the author of how to read the constitution and why. rick stengel, former undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, msnbc political analyst. he s got a new book out called information wars, how we lost the global battle against disinformation. we ll dig into that. kim, you literally wrote a book on the constitution. let s start with this question. what can the house do if the white house just says no to all
disappointment. spewing misinformation about basic principles of law. i would encourage all listeners to educate themselves on some core concepts including the appointment process. robert mueller is not a principal officer. he does not require senate appointment and confirmation or presidential appointment and confirmation for this particular situation. i m going to study up this weekend. but how about fellow republicans? is there anything legally standing between matt whitaker accepting this appointment and others to get involved? yes, we ve seen an op-ed from george conway and other legal scholars who have said this is unconstitutional. is there anything that can truly block this appointment? sor it just opinion? well, as i mentioned, i think i do think i read that piece and i ve done a lot of research on this concept. i m writing a book on the constitution.
cooking school. i know how to budget. i know how to cost account down to 00.3 for vanilla. so you re way ahead of anybody in washington. i think i probably am. i m a very good manager. thank you so much for coming to see us. it s delightful. and he s working on a book on the constitution. 14th amendment i hear. 14th amendment. which makes publish it before they repeal it. i ll talk to my editor after i leave. all right. thank you both so much for being here. the french are on strike, eliot. it s not exactly news because the french are always on strike. this time apparently they re serious. - ha! why don t you try a home cooked meal. with yummy hamburger helper? oh! tada! fantastically tasty, huh? ummm, it s good. what would you guys like? hamburger helper. what?! one pound. one pan. one tasty meal! when i got my medicare card,