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win the battle and lose the war. you know? there is a -- if you discredit or politicize the justice department in the eyes of 60 million americans, you havent gained that much even if youve got these classified documents. so that is the balance that i think and im sure theyre thinking about, which is very difficult. because with anybody else you would just say, look. you broke the law or you seem to have broken the law. we have to get these documents back. >> what strikes me when you s...

Often took documents including classified documents to the residence. he had a standing order. there is the word ive been looking for. that documents removed from the oval office and taken to the residents were deemed to be de classified the moment he removed them. the power to classify and de classify documents rests solely with the president of the united states. the idea that some paper pushing bureaucrat with classification authority delegated by the president need to approve the de classifi...