absurd claims. since the fbi searched donald trump s private residence and members club back in august. the ex-president declassified all the documents that he could declassify them if he wanted to, quote, even by thinking about it. it is a claim that has been repeated over and over and over again by trump and his allies. the disgraced ex-president mentioned it in public and the media appearances so many times. not one single time has that claim been made in a court of law. now new reporting suggests that the question of whether there is an a proof that he declassified the documents is a major interest to prosecutors at doj. new york times is reporting that federal prosecutors and former president trump s handling of national security documents, what a question one of his confident ants about a claim that trup declassified the documents. that confidante is cash patel, one of trump s biggest defenders in the documents investigation. he is a trump loyalist who made a career o
for that assuming the government can make that case. i find it quite interesting according to the reporting bye-bye charlie and the colleagues there seems to have been a lot of dispute between the government and mr. patel s attorneys about whether mr. patel can take the fifth amendment. if i m very curious and odd. that is extremely unusual. follow up and explain that. charlie, take us through what you reported on that front and allow andrew to add context about why that is so extraordinary? so what we collectively have reported is that the prosecutors have asked the judge overseeing the grand jury to reject the idea that the fifth amendment had anything to say about the kind of questions they were asking. if they were asking if they wanted to ask him is it true what you said on television that trump declassified the things, it s not immediately obvious why that would be incriminating