and saying that he was able to declassify whatever he wants. joyce, put that make sense of that for us? explain that to us. well, i d love to make sense of it, katy, but it doesn t make much in the way of sense. it is a shocker that the former president would try to distract from his own problems but invoking barack obama who by all accounts including this official one complied fully with the presidential records act. when it comes to these new suggestions that trump could have declassified these documents on his way out the door, this rings a little bit too good to be true. and certainly the president has declassification authority, he can do it with far less need to dot the i s and cross the t s than someone else could. but if for instance i had walked out of my office with tss, ci information which we re being told what was recovered in the execution of this search warrant, it is clear that if i had refused to turn it over or tried to keep it hidden saver a request was
and the campaign. have you ever heard of a president accidentally even taking top secret information, compartmented information, with them outside of the white house to anywhere? no, i can t think of any parallel to this. obviously, the question isn t just like did he accidently take some documents that he shouldn t have taken. i mean, clearly the fbi and the authorities have been trying to get those back now for months. so he had every understanding that there was an issue with these papers an he didn t give them back. and the fbi and the department of justice decided that they had executed to a search warrant to recover them. as you say, it may be just for the purpose of doing that. we don t know exactly whether there will lead to any kind of criminal charges. but the very fact that they felt that these documents were so sensitive, that they couldn t remain out in the public, any longer without being guarded in effect, indicates that they obviously think they go beyond simply, you