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Must the president follow any specific procedures when declassifying government information? The answer is a resounding no.

Congress has oversighteasyersigy . wants congress has classification authority to see anything at once. so why is there this this pretense of, oh, we haver sour to protect our sources and methods? you dont proteccemethod t classifieds anyone information from congress. and this isnt even classified. is is unclassified based on the reporting that weve seen, which means whatmeans exy do they think thatf cong theyre keeping away here from members of congress? rent to seso who want to see it? so, yes...

Taken into the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. the idea that some paper pushing bureaucrat with classification authority delegated by the president needs to approve a declassification is absurd. so that was trumps defense. he had a standing order to declassify all these documents, whatever a standing declassification order is. cool. except nobody bought it. cnn interviewed 18 former officials from trumps own administration who called this explanation ludicrou...

Joining us this evening. remember back in august last year, when the fbi searched trumps mar-a-lago home looking for classified documents, documents they believed the former president has knowingly stashed away? trump complained very loudly and publicly about that. he also fund-raise off it and took every opportunity to put out what a victim he was of a deep state witch hunt. but his first real defense, first real justification for why he kept all of the documents in the first place, that came i...

A federal magistrate judge in Worcester, Massachusetts, heard arguments last week on whether the young airman accused of leaking scores of classified documents should be freed on bond or detained pending trial. Judge David H. Hennessy, after listening to government and defense lawyers for 90 minutes, took the matter under advisement Thursday and said he would rule shortly in the case of Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira, 21, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard.

The unfolding case has rattled the national security establishment, exposed sensitive sources and methods, and caused untold damage. 

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There are several reasons that this document drama happened: There are too many people with classified access and entirely too many documents to keep up with.

Forthcoming, they have been coordinating the search with them. but like you say, perception matters. and joe biden had said that trump was irresponsible in what happened with the classified documents there, and now this happens, classified documents keep getting found at his properties and more searches will likely happen by the fbi at other properties. and so yes, it is true that his attorneys, according to what they have but out there, theyve been cooperating. but sometimes that nuance can get...

Classified documents out of these secure locations and put them everywhere including in china thattown in d.c. before -- chinatown before landing at the penn biden center? >> well, the quick answer is, is its the not possible unless youre breaking the law. so, you know, if we had to move a document from the house intelligence committee to, say, the senate intelligence committee -- which would happen often if we were exchanging letters -- that document had to be put into a pouch, locked up, carri...