the promises to be searched his further described as a resort club and the residents. it is described as a mansion with approximately 58 bedrooms, 38 on the 17 acre estate. the locations to be searched include the 45 office all storage rooms and all other rooms or areas within the premises used or available to be used by the former president of the united states and his staff and in which boxes or documents could be stored and quote. it just kind of seems like anywhere. that is of course the federal authorities describing former president donald trump s mar-a-lago estate in the search warrant of the property that they executed on monday. today a federal judge in florida unsealed the document after the former president and the doj decided against disputing its publication. i want to pause for a second here. you have heard this many times over the past few years. we are truly living in historic and unprecedented time here in u.s. history. but think about where we are right no
matter of the search of the premises located at 1100 south ocean boulevard palm beach, florida as further the described in attachment a okay, here is attachment a quote, property to be searched. the premises to be searched is further described as a resort club and the residence. it is described as a mansion with approximately 58 bedrooms, 38 bathrooms on a 17 acre estate. the locations to be searched include the 45 office all storage rooms and all other rooms or areas within the premises used or available to be used by the former president of the united states and his staff and in which boxes or documents could be stored and quote. it just kind of seems like anywhere. that is of course the federal authorities describing former president donald trump s mar-a-lago estate in the search warrant of the property that they executed on monday. today a federal judge in florida unsealed the document after the former president and the doj decided against disputing its publication. i
information. not everyone has a topsecret clearance can see every bit of information that s in the compartment. those markings are on the documents. even the president s daily brief itself which is a stylist production he often in the fancy leather notebook still has topsecret stamped on it just to make sure that you know it s classified. there is no area for confusion here. who controls the controls on the limits on the various types of documents? i m asking you this obviously in the context that there are some people arguing, who made the case, that the president declassified the information. he s also made references to that. what is the process somewhat would ve had to have happen? is it just something that he could just? the president cannot retroactively declassify something let s take that off the table. if the argument is, he declassified these while i was president and i don t tell anyone, that does not hold up.
has topsecret stamped on it just to make sure that you know it s classified. there is no area for confusion here. who controls the controls on the limits on the various types of documents? i m asking you this obviously in the context that there are some people arguing, who made the case, that the president declassified the information. he s also made references to that. what is the process somewhat would ve had to have happen? is it just something that he could just? the president cannot retroactively declassify something let s take that off the table. if the argument is, he declassified these while i was president and i don t tell anyone, that does not hold up. courts of actually shown, you cannot do that. there must be some kind of process or procedure to show that this is declassified, plus, when that happens, those documents no longer have these huge markings on them, and there s a declassification stamp on the document so that there is no confusion about it
committed a crime? is there a chance he could be prosecuted for it? i asked the question because a sitting president could declassify anything he wants. we absolutely could be in criminal territory here. it is a federal crime to intentionally remove or destroy classified information. if it was done, not by accident, but intentionally and knowingly. if these documents were marked classified and anyone who could read would know they were classified. if there was proof after an investigation that it was done intentionally, then you have a crime. yes, a sit go president can declassify documents. no, a former president cannot retroactively declassify. if donald trump did, there would be some witness or some record to reflect that. in the absence of that, we could be in criminal territory. a good point. the archives confirmed that the former president continued on tear up documents after being told not to do so.