declassify information. so they re saying there were no classified documents to be received. listen to kash patel. president trump was a transparency president. president trump on multiple occasions in the white house declassified whole sets of documents and i ll remind you and your audience in october of 2020 he issued a statement declassifying everything from the russia scandal and the hillary clinton scandal and not to mention in january when he issued declassification orders at the white house. when the president says that, that s it. he s the sole authority on declassification. i ll remind viewers, when the president says it, it doesn t just make it so. the president went to court and said just because the president tweeted it doesn t make it. that s his own justice department that said that. look, it is going to be their
declassify information. yes. so clearly this is trying to hide information. and i think the reason that someone would do brianna, i don t want to say clearly. i don t know what his motive is. i understand you re not saying that, maggie. but this is highly unusual. and this would have the effect of obscuring the information that was on those papers. i think it s important, maggie, as you know from covering him so long, he has an information from trying to hide information, classified information. this is something he has done over and over again. this is not somebody for whom transparency was not a premium in that white house. we talked about this many times over the course of four years, the lack of transparency. whether it was try to dispeer something, make it go away, whether he was just standing
prosecuted against hillary clinton, to the extent that there was any exposure other than poor document retention policy, was that, there was classified information which she done and we should note here, as president, you can control classification, you can do which one with. that s not sure of ex presidents, correct? that s correct. as a president, you re right, you have broad latitude to declassify information. we are seeing that right now with the biden administration, they are declassifying documents about russia and ukraine and a strategic way. as a former president, you do not have that ability. but it s worth noting that these crimes and violations have a fairly high bar to prosecute, in part because they something the national archives has found out what to give to the january six committee, they realize a lot of these documents were wrapped, but you have to prove intent, and when
trump, that are not his to keep. that needed to go to the archives. that s what s started them on this process. there is also, i m gonna come to you in a second, look, there s also reporting on some of the information is classified. perhaps even top secret. we re now getting into one of the grand ironies. the thing, the case, that was prosecuted against hillary clinton, to the extent that there was any exposure other than poor document retention policy, was that, there was classified information which she done and we should note here, as president, you can control classification, you can do which one with. that s not sure of ex presidents, correct? that s correct. as a president, you re right, you have broad latitude to declassify information. we are seeing that right now with the biden administration, they are declassifying documents about russia and ukraine and a strategic way. as a former president, you do not have that ability. but it s worth noting that
assumed that presidential records belonged to the president, only after watergate that congress stepped in to make the new standard so they belong to public. and in national archives, presidential record act does not have any enforcement mechanism. it rely s on the presidential to preserve things. the january 6 committee, i think how he come across this whole thing, is looking for information connected to what the president was doing on january 6 while the riot was on going. and then the other issue is, if he had classified information at mar-a-lago and it had not been declassified. once he is a former president, he does not have the power to declassify information. that conceivably could