his property. the lead starts right now. i have no classified documents. by the way, they become automatically declassified when i took them. it does not quite work that way, though. sources say trump was aware of the declassification process before he left office. the new evidence that could soon be in the hands of the special counsel. paparazzi following prince harry and meghan markle in new york in a scene described as near catastrophic. plus, tonight a vote on taking action against republican congressman george santos after his many lies and a federal indictment and he pled guilty to a crime in another country. is there enough bipartisan animous to kick santos out of congress. we begin with a cnn exclusive. major developments today in the special counsel s investigation into donald trump s handling of classified materials taken from the white house to mar-a-lago and then taken from mar-a-lago by the fbi last year. multiple sources tell cnn that the national ar
That could come back to bite him. thank you so much. allissa, from what you observed during your time in the trump administration and as communications director for president trump in the white house, was there an awareness by president trump and his top advisers of this existing declassification process? there was certainly an awareness amongst senior advisers. i handled classified documents in the west wing. i can think of two occasions where the former president wanted items declassified, frankly, in the public space that were not being reported entirely accurately or they didn t have the entire information. some of the senior staff ran through the traps of declassifying that information and was unable to. which acknowledges that there was an understanding that there was a process. robin o brien was somebody that would stop something if it