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several democratic officials. then a new discovery about a revolutionary weight loss drug. patients say it actually helps curb other addictions such as smoking or drinking. welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. we start with our law and justice lead. the first public reaction from former president donald trump in response to cnns blockbuster reor thing, since matched by "the new york times" and "washington post," in his classified documents case. mr. trump refused to directly answ...

Leadership, i suppose, and the legal team from bedminster. help us understand that -- under what youre talking about. >> so, first of all, when we searched bedminster there were no classified documents or marked documents there. we did find documents in a storage unit down in florida where the documents had been moved from the white house down there. what happens is, every time an administration changes over, they box up all the papers. the national archives and records administration, nara, ren...

Those because those documents have already been put out on the internet. cases like this, if the allegations are as they say, where the documents have not been publicly released, it becomes much more difficult. the same reason why i would say they were right not to bring a prosecution against hillary clinton or joe biden. its the same reason i dont think theyll bring a prosecution against donald trump. >> its interesting you say that. one of the entire premises of the 2016 campaign of donald tru...

Declassification, because it seems to suggest that donald trump knew in july 2021 that a document he was holding he could not share with individuals because it was still classified. thats the idea here, that he -- the intent and the willful understanding of the declassification laws, that this would undermine what mr. trump and his legal team had been claiming in terms of their understanding of the status of those documents. >> and if that tape is authentic, and if it matches up to an actual doc...