so there is a lot of questions there. at the end of the day, the same underlying crime exists even if there are differences in aspects of the case. laura: the argument is often made that the president, himself, has the legal authority, jonathan, to declassify documents but the vice-president does not. is that correct? right. in terms of the declassification process, you are with the same position in many respects. donald trump said that he declassified everything. we haven t seen a record of how that was done. there has been no allegation or no suggestion that these documents were declassified. also, these documents were classified at a very high level at the tssci level. that is very sensitive material. so you have to treat this as serious. the other question that you have
it s another show of total hypocrisy where the democrats have treated president trump with entirely different set of standards than they treat their own people. and i m just a little surprised we have seen at least some of the mainstream media giving some attention to this, which is surprising in itself. they didn t just bury this story. how can they bury this story? and it wouldn t be maybe so stark of a contrast if it weren t for the way that they handled this story when donald trump was accused of taking records that he kept locked up and that he still had in his possession and that he had claimed that he declassified so the double standard is alive and well. let s see what happens. i think a lot of us are watching with great interest. ainsley: absolutely. today is a big day for your daughter. sarah huckabee sanders is going to be sworn in as the 47th governor of the great state of arkansas. how are you feeling? pretty excited a little
if donald trump asked an employee to move boxes of documents after receiving a subpoena that included said documents, what legal questions does that raise? it raises a number of questions legal and factual. what were the documents being moved? what is just moving the documents mean? where were they being moved from and to? i know we can t take the piece ands say there is new video and testimony. i don t think we can take this and really draw legal conclusions from them. if you take the position that the trump team has taken parentally, that he declassified documents in the first place, then there is a dispute about whether the documents being moved were declassified, classified, we just don t know about it to draw any fair conclusion that s are meaningful. it may than they were under subpoena. whether or not they were classified, ultimately the search warrant in august didn t
special master here in new york does? it is not change with the special master does. the special master would then have access to the documents. but i believe so with the justice department at that point. i mean, i think it s not an unfair view though that the supreme court just may not take it. look, this is a dispute between two other branches of government. and it s not really a massive huge question that they would be resolving here. yes, it s donald trump. but you, know, to the point i was just made a moment ago, this is a very highly technical question about how appeals are operated. so, number one, they may not take it. number two, if they do, it may be, you know, the kind of decision that the court just resolved pretty quickly. john, could it backfire though? because judge dearie has press team trump to prove all the while allegations, these allegations he s been making up planted evidence and claims that he declassified everything. you know, that he can just do it by think
saying it s declassified. even by thinking it. you are sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever and it doesn t have to be a process. so here are to discuss this are four guests. so jonathan, declassifying documents by thinking about it, the former president probably never said anything like that in the past but the legal woes are mounting here. i m interested to see if the lawyers in court present the claim that he declassified. by thinking about it. or at all. right? because this special master demanded to know if that s the case and trump said it numerous