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lets start with the twice-impeached pathologically duplicitous former president on the truth social platform that his passports were seized by the fbi. theres one caveat to that, nbc has not independently claimed if it is true and it could be a significant detail in whats become a stream of revelations. "the washington post" out with new details on the early stages of the probe when officials at the national archives suggested that trump had documents in his possession even after they ...

here. and later, first of his washington d.c.. and now texas governor greg abbott is blasting dozens of migrants to new york city. all of that and more is coming up. happy saturday morning, to im cory confident for katie fang. we have special -- of the fbi warrant and all of the twists and turns from this week of nonstop news. lets go sort of with what we know so far, a federal judge in florida until four documents telling us more about the mar-a-lago search. they show that fbi agents ...

Declassification defense. i can declassify just by thinking about it. beth and i know it doesnt work that way. he concedes that thats not true, wolf. whether or not he had that document in front of him, he concedes. i could have declassified this when i was president suggesting he cant do it now. so he acknowledges the legal regime, as well, irrespective of his bravado defense. >> he acknowledges these are still classified documents that were lying around over there at the golf club. you know, p...

Us now. from what you know, will this help federal investigators in their case as they look into the classified documents that were found in mar-a-lago? >> absolutely, sara. it undercuts the whole magical declassification defense. the easy part of the case is showing where the documents are found and what those documents were. the hard part is showing donald trumps intent. what did he know? did he know what he was doing was wrong? it shows the arkinchives told tp you can declassify, heres what y...

At mar-a-lago was the result of haphazard recordkeeping and packing by white house staff and gsa. now, is that -- is that good news that his lawyers thought that if, in fact, the national archives instructed the white house on how to declassify documents? >> this is why as a criminal defense lawyer you dont want your client conducting national town halls on cnn. >> yeah. >> because your client may go south on you. thats what trump did here. look, this was essentially their only defense where the...

Example, i would have been fired and prosecuted. just to see this volume of classified information there is staggering and ill add that im very shocked that trump continues to stick by this declassification defense of his which doesnt have merit, but even so, these are documents that you can tell from the covers are derived from human intelligence, theyre compartmentalized information, why would you declassify that? those documents can put people in danger so it actually raises more questions th...

Because of the hillary clinton email scandal. trump raised the penalty in the aftermath of that. barbara, i will have you give us final reaction to that. >> interestingly enough, that is not one of the charges filed at the moment. at least, charges used on the search warrant. because that one does require classified information. but the declassification defense, i think, feels anyway. because the president alone cannot declassify documents. so, ultimately, if there were charges in this case and ...