recall trump declassifying the materials the fbi seized at mar-a-lago citing sources familiar. nbc news has not independently verified that. here s how former vice president mike pence responded when asked about the report. in my case i was never made aware of any broad-based effort to declassify documents. i don t have any knowledge of any broad-based directive from the president, but that doesn t mean it didn t occur. i just it s not something that i ever heard about. in response to the abc report, the trump campaign accused the doj of leaking information and slammed the investigation once again as a witch hunt. meanwhile, a friday deadline looms for the former president and his 18 co-defendants in the case centered around efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. law enforcement sources tell nbc news trump has no plans to surrender earlier than thursday. joinings now with more is nbc s ali vitali in fulton county, georgia, and lisa rubin msnbc
believe it was possible for trump to have the actual document. meadows said he knew it would be problematic if trump had war plan documents in his possession, the sources said. in a statement to abc news, a trump spokesperson accusing the justice department without evidence of selectively leaking incomplete information to impact the 2024 election. there is a process that the white house goes through to declassify materials. i don t have any knowledge of any broad-based directive from the president but that doesn t mean it didn t occur. reporter: and linsey, former u.s. attorney preet bharara told abc news the information mark meadows has is, quote, pretty damaging but it s unlikely he s flipped on trump. that s because meadows was indicted last week alongside trump and that separate investigation into election interference in georgia. both have only until this friday to turn themselves in. thank you. linsey: president biden is hours from landing in maui nearly two weeks after t
citizens members of the community, there to decide based only on the evidence not on press releases, tweets, or potus. what donald trump did or didn t do. it s not gonna be that difficult to hold donald trump accountable. and to win convictions. let me ask you, for mark meadows for a moment, abc news they ve obtained an early copy of mark meadows s forthcoming book about his time at the white house. and that s what i wanted to ask about. it included a description of trump having a classified war plan on the couch at his office in bedminster, new jersey. at a meeting attended by meadows s ghostwriter and publicist. although meadows himself was not there i believe. it s interesting, in reference to the document being in trump s possession was removed before the book was published. imperious to your thoughts on that and what that tells us? what, we re gonna find out
potus. what donald trump did or didn t do. it s not gonna be that difficult to hold donald trump accountable. and to win convictions. let me ask you, for mark meadows for a moment, abc news they ve obtained an early copy of mark meadows s forthcoming book about his time at the white house. and that s what i wanted to ask about. it included a description of trump having a classified war plan on the couch at his office in bedminster, new jersey. at a meeting attended by meadows s ghostwriter and publicist. although meadows himself was not there i believe. it s interesting, in reference to the document being in trump s possession was removed before the book was published. imperious to your thoughts on that and what that tells us? what, we re gonna find out is whatever mark meadows is to write in his book, or take out of his book, once he s under oath he s gonna testify to what
as this report dropped, guess who else made the same claim, mike pence. in my case i wasn t remain aware of any broad based effort to declassify documents. there s a process that the white house goes through to declassify materials. i m aware of that occurring on several occasions over the course of our four years. but i don t have any broad directive from the president. but that doesn t mean it didn t occur. it s just not something i ever heard about. trump faces 40 separate criminal charges related to his possession of those documents. in total he staring down a staggering 91 criminal counts in four different jurisdictions and indictments. it s now increasingly clear that he s cracking under the pressure of these legal cases. within the last few days we witnessed two