Can Declassify News Today

The FBI's seizure of top secret files from Donald Trump's home shined a spotlight on the declassification system. How does the process work?

Presidents tweeting. about that fox news report, do you believe his retweet is confirmation that u.s. spy satellites picked this up over in north korea? >> it probably is. you know, but he shouldnt be doing that. even though a president can declassify, you dont want to -- you dont want to put that out. if you are the commander in chief. so, he should just stop that but hes fot going to do it. hes going to keep doing this. he doesnt listen. he should listen to his secretary of state, his national...

With multiple officials and the reporting on this, to withhold some of that including the city that trump references specifically in the conversation including some of the details he shares with the russian officials about the nature of the plot, about how the islamic state is trying to pull it together. the fact that those details are out there just underscores, i think, the accuracy of our report. >> all right. standby. i want to bring in david sanger. i want to get back to the panel. presiden...

Withheld plot details including the name of the city not to jeopardize intelligence capabilities. so if you know the name of the city and other plot details, how does that line up with what the white house is saying tonight? >> well, exactly. i mean, these are details -- theres two things, don. so our sources were not wanting to compound the mistake here by revealing information that they believe trump should not have revealed to russian officials. and then there are other decisions we made as a...