tumors? it was one, but it would break out in grow again. so i was going blind. survived thyroid cancer, my brother gregg had before the blast, it is unclear what the manhattan project team knew about the health dangers of prolonged radiation exposure. but he declassified memo on the after effects, the group s chief medical officer said less than a week after trinity, the resulting death cloud, quote, was potentially a very dangerous hazard, over event almost 30 miles wide, extending over 90 miles northeast of the site. the ranch was right in that zone. for decades, doctors had found connections between radiation exposure and health problems, up to and including cancer. from the study of the atomic bomb, he rasheem nagasaki, we know there are multiple types of cancer which increases the risk of radiation exposure. other problems have shown up from increases in heart disease, and actual reduction aha long
republicans in concord, new hampshire, about two hours from now and folks are starting to enter behind me. in conversations with the folks that are here, you are hear, defenses that have been propagated by donald trump. this is for donald trump as much of a political spin effort, it is one that is going to be troubling for his defense team because over the course of the last year now, donald trump has provided a cadre of excuses or explanations for why he had possession of the documents and made the case that he was in the right to have the documents. take a listen to teddy mcneil, one of his supporters who is here this afternoon. are you concerned about the classified documents? the president has the right to do whatever he wants. he declassified everything and it is his choice. reporter: i think it is important, that anecdote is important to be paired with the data that in our new nbc news poll showed that 45% of
records act to take whatever he wants? no. absolutely not. the law is crystal clear. the presidential records act, adopted after president nixon, is very clear that when the moment the president leaves office, the things that are presidential papers, government property, are not his. these papers are no more his than air force 1 is his. especially state secrets. they are government secrets. they are not trump secrets. if he declassified something when he was in the white house, does that give him any special powers over those documents as he leaves? if he declassified them properly and it was recorded so that everybody knows it s been declassified, it would be part of his copy of the document part of his records that he could take with him. the fact is, as he claims he declassified things because he had an automatic power over that
predictable threshold attacks. his team has already said that they believe that the espionage act should not apply. that s 31 of the 37 counts. and there are arguments to be made there, including the standard of intent to harm the country. here the government seems to have stated a motivation in a rather curious way. when they talk about the audio tape, they are not just talking about a statement by trump that contradicts what he has said publicly, that he declassified everything. it also suggests a motive that he may have held on to some of these documents like a trophy. but that doesn t fit with the espionage act very well. now the problem for the trump team, even if you succeed on the espionage and presidential records attacks, it doesn t necessarily remove all the counts off the table because you are not allowed to obstruct or make false statements even if you are right on those 31
trump wants to put in in his defense, that will set up a good appellate record for trump and these issues take a very long time to litigate. john: you can imagine, andy, trump s attorneys can say we have to declassify them so that they can get a full understanding. and then you ve got the document that s purported to be attack plans on iran, would the government ever want that declassified. in terms of what was seized from mar-a-lago, and jonathan turley, the president s statements this morning on the radio show that this is all the presidential records act, we negotiate with the archives, what was found at mar-a-lago. 102 classified documents, 27 in his office, six top secret, 18 secret, three confidential, and the storage room, 75 documents, 11 top secret, 36 secret, 28 confidential. is this the sort of thing,