still wrong. that is former vice president mike pence in iowa yesterday defending himself after a woman falsely claimed he had the constitutional power to block the certification of the 2020 election results. a calm takedown of that conspiracy theory. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, july 6th. with us, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay. the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. professor at princeton university, eddie glaude jr. and legal analyst danny. mike pence, for all the criticisms we ve rightly levied upon him over the last eight years or so, seven or eight years, it was sort of a measured takedown and a point by point rebuttal of something that really is prominent, really did take hold, as you write about in your book, the big lie. mike pence had the power to, quote, send it back to the states and give the election to donald trump. yeah, mike pence ruz right was right t
the material was marked with the highest levels of classification that exists, material that is meant to be held only in secure government facilities not at a private club where basically anyone can pay for membership and wander around. arguably, the agent s most alarming finding that we were able to see in this redacted version was that the boxes contained classified information that came from human intelligence sources meaning if the documents were mishandled, leaked or transmitted they could compromise the identity of american intelligence assets and the affidavit also lays out why doj had good reason not to believe or trust trump and his lawyers knowing that back in february of this year, after the archives notified congress that there was classified material and what they got back from mar-a-lago, trump put out a statement that very fact. investigators write this, quote, there is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified national defense
president trump said he declassified the documents and did he just declassify them all. why, i declassified everything in the world. i m president, i can do it all. come on. i m not going to comment because i don t know the detail. i don t even want to know. let the justice department take care of that. that was president joe biden a little while ago essentially mocking one of donald trump s many excuses for why he had 184 classified documents, unsecured, at his mar-a-lago golf club after he left the white house. it s a rare comment from the president on an issue that the president has made a point of steering clear from. his whole team has, and letting the justice department do its work. his remarks follow a fiery rally and speech last night where president biden sought to energize all democrats, drawing a very sharp contrast between his party and his leadership and
was. i mean, this is endangering, it appears, our intelligence sources, our methods. these are highly sensitive documents, and we re not just talking about a couple pieces of paper marked classified. we re talking about scores of pieces of paper that were kept not only unsecured in the estimation of the government but in sort of a disorganized fashion, in boxes with all sorts of random things in a storage room with all sorts of items at his residence and golf club. and we should just keep in mind that we re not just talking about his home. it s not some sort of private home that five or ten people have access to. mar-a-lago is a club, an event venue, that hosts weddings and charity galas, hundreds of people go through there in the months when it s open during the year. so, clearly, this was a risk. it underscores why the fbi was so determined to go in and do this extraordinary move to search that property, and i think, you know, for a lot of people who studied the trump presidency, a