to the effect of, you know, if i can show you this if you undermine these arguments. but making clear that he doesn t believe he can show it to them. and i think that is a key part of the story. it s very much is. the other part is that this really gives us one of the first indications of what else might be here. it is not just letters from kim jong-un, what do we know based on your reporting about the military significance of the documents that we are talking about. right, that has kind of been the dispute over was a classified, was not classified. this is a plan that we are told was essentially about potentially striking a run. obviously the u.s. is a lot of plans for the pentagon, backup pans, in case of emergency. and that is what we are told this was. that he was referencing. trying to say, essentially, but it was something that general milley had prepared for him. obviously milley is the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. we are told actually that this was not a
we are not trying our case leak by leak. let me ask you, that you signed a letter to congress saying that this was all just the result of a rush to pack job. essentially. you said when president trump left office there was little time to prepare, the white house staffers, gsa, administration employees, they quickly packed everything up in boxes and shipped them to florida. but it seems that this tape indicates that at least trump knew specifically that he had this specific document? what the letter is designed to do, as much as you want me to try to leak that in the press. the letter was designed to tell congress that we have a very politicized national archive archivist that is going after one president only that they
as i ve been around the doj for 27 years. i have never seen a leak campaign like this. were any documents that former president trump took with him to any of his properties, did they contain any of them sensitive military plans? i am not trying my case in the press. so he would have the right to possess them if they did. but i am not going to address that. he would have the right, would he have the right to possess them if they were classified documents? yes. because the presidential records act actually says that those documents belong to the federal government. the presidential records act says that once there is a determination of whether something is a presidential record, then it goes to the archivist. all the discretion in the world is with the president himself when he makes that first call. let me read let me just read the relevant statute for the audience. the united states salt reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of presidentia
eventually. that is not what happened. sure it is. i ll show you the letter. retained control over all of this. norah announced are retrained control over all those documents that you are describing including the facilities that they were kept in. that has been fact checked. norad has given an official politicized statement saying that we had legal custody. they didn t have physical custody. they controlled the physical space of the document. i would be a lot of foundation red letter i don t want to get bogged down in other presidents. i am talking about you have just misstated something i want to fix. i am talking about your client here. i am talking about dual systems of justice. when you have a president who has thousands of documents and they say don t worry, we have legal custody. no wonder the letter saying what you are describing is according to a mischaracterization of what is going on. what i am asking you is when it comes to your client