court has overturned kenneth s favorite to appeal trump, and some might argue that trump confessed to having the classified documents in that bizarre interview he gave fox news yesterday and what are the next steps in the special master s examination of the classified documents? i think it s remarkable that both the 11th circuit which acted with great speed, and the special master, are taking no baloney from the trump team. they have made it very clear the facts are facts. and i think what is going to happen next is there is going to be a quick turnaround on the special master. no one is going to accept that they can t say whether he declassified anything. but even if he did, the court has made it clear, it doesn t matter. because the crimes he s accused of don t require that they be classified. they have national security
he says that this is all about documents that he declassified. listen to him again on fox news last night. if you re the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified even by thinking about it. because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or to wherever you re sending it and there doesn t have to be a process. look, he is right. as the former president he had the power to declassify. but no one seems to have heard of anything he did to actually make that happen. so that s one of the reasons why you saw the special master call him out on this very question again, wolf. they asked his legal team to say whether they declassified these things, and they have so far refused to say. if you declassify documents, you have to notify the agency and you have to write it down so people know these documents are no longer highly classified. these are top secret documents. right. it appears that this is an
hand with intelligence officials to determine any possible risk to national security from this material being kept at mar-a-lago unsecured for such a long time. so that was the first thing. and then the judges also blasted trump s really unfounded claims that he declassified everything. so they wrote in their opinion this. they said, plaintiff suggests that he may have declassified these documents when he was president, but the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified. and before the special master plaintiff resisted providing any evidence that he had declassified any of these documents. so really blasting the president and his repeated claims, unfounded, that he declassified everything. and also, victor, the ruling also talks about the special master s involvement in all this. it makes clear that he is now restricted along with trump s attorneys from gaining access to any of this classified material. that was a sharp turn from what the lower court judg
legal filings, trump s lawyers are assiduously saying just that. now the i coujudge dearie has b trial judge in brooklyn for 36 years. now they got to make a decision. are they going to realistically argue and remember, lawyers have an ethical duty you cannot lie to a court. are they going to argue that donald trump declassified or not? i just, look, who are we kidding? there s no evidence that he declassified, so i think they have to try to drop that issue. i think it s the only move they re left with. is it a problematic thing that the judiciary branch is saying they will then, if they have to, determine what is and what is not classified documents. yeah but i think also team trump wants to tie this up in sort of legalese, lets it go and go and go. they want that question addressed later, that s why
who is donald trump s lawyers who suggested raymond dearie as the special master, the special master who said today that he might not even look at the classified documents before a ruling in favor of the of the prosecution. and it is donald trump s lawyers who ve told a special master and the appeals court that the way to find out if donald trump is going to claim he s going to claim that he declassified charge him with a crime. they are inviting federal prosecutors to charge him with a crime. the highest price lawyer noon today when donald trump is paying $3 million of his contributors money didn t say a word, not one word. and he s considered the most competent lawyer on the trump side. at what point does donald trump begin to wonder which side are his lawyers really on? leading off our discussion tonight is andrew weizmann, former fbi general counsel,