an informant at mar-a-lago? well, cnn has not confirmed this part of the story, but we ve already reported that investigators believe that trump and his aides had not returned all of the documents, and they also believe that trump s representatives were not being entirely honest with them. trump, meanwhile, seems to be hiding behind the fifth amendment, which, of course, is his right to do. and he did so today during today s session with the new york attorney general s office, who is investigating of course the trump organization. i m going to give you my take on that a little bit later in the show. but for now, let s remember that trump once said that only criminals took the fifth. you see the mob takes the fifth. if you re innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment? hmm. what a difference a few years makes. today trump saying in a statement instead, quote, when your family, your company, and all the people in your orbit have become the targets of an unfounded, pol
declassified and first i want to be clear. once you re no longer the president, you don t get to grandfather in the authority to classify or deal with classified materials, right? correct. the moment joe biden took the oath of office, donald trump lost any and all constitutional authority he had for four years under article 2 of the constitution and as the president. but up until that moment, he had unlimited, unfettered discretion to declassify documents while he was president. but there is a process. he couldn t point at a box and say, i declassify everything in that box, but the documents themselves still have to be processed for declassification. there s markings on every classified page, on the header and footer of every document, indicating the level of classification. there s classification markings on each document indicating when it was classified, by whom, under who authority. that has to all be addressed. that all has to be marked out and written as declassified by