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A trump appointee. and on this appeal panel were two trump appointed judges. his team was saying that trump should be able to keep everything, even what was deemed classified. and his team saying the fact that trump was under investigation was hurtful to him. they should put the brakes on it. the appeals court came back, no, that doesnt make sense. thats not a good enough reason, the possibility that you could be under investigation for us to pause the whole thing. finally on the declassificatio...

Response to that ultimatum from the special master. when he said he might have no choice but to accept the governments claims that 100 of those documents are classified, if trumps team doesnt step up with the proof that the former president declassified them. and thats really something that trumps legal team has resisted repeatedly asserting both in person and in court and in legal filings. so we saw a filing last night and they said that they might have to save any evidence of declassification ...

Judge. he has national security experience, he was on the fisa court. hes not been -- so hes in a position he can actually -- >> cynthia -- there we go. >> i think, you know, while definitely the department of justice needs to appeal to the 11th circuit, and they may stay everything that judge dearie is going to do. she has not addressed the law that the warrants were based on and shes not dealing with the whole obstruction issue or frankly the declassification issue. so one of two things is goi...

Mishandling them. honestly, i cannot understand any innocuous good reason for him having those at this point. as was mentioned, those are the most sensitive level of documents and there is no reason why that those would not be kept in that secure scif facility. so there is just not a good reason to have them at this point. and frankly on the declassification issue there, there is a lot of questions whether he really had done that, and there are no other -- there are certain channels you go throu...

>> well, i think -- i think horowitz will give us a stunning report about the system being off the rails, im not going prejudge it. i talked to barr wednesday, the declassification issue has been resolved, most of it will be declassified. i want the public to look at what happened and not trust my rendition of what happened, lets declassify all of the applications for the warrants, lets put it all out there to see, all the 3o2s so you can make your own decision if christopher steele had a bias a...

I think the american people should see what he has. where is it? >> jessica: a lot of it is in in the mueller report. >> harris: wait a minute, he said he had evidence. >> jessica: that doesnt mean there werent instances of the conspiracy. he went on conclusion specifically customer, obviously not. >> jessica: anyone who has something should reveal this point. if youve been on the tv circuit talking about it, certainly. there are a number of analysts who look at people who come from the brooking...

Declassification issue. >> laura: explain that. >> we have seen since monday when the president said he was going to declassify documents. over the last week, "the new york times," abc news, a number of publications have had stories blocking -- trying to block the declassification. they have been sourced to former and current u.s. officials. i see this as part of the same thing. the "times" stories apparently sourced to andy mccabe. >> he said he didnt talk. his people are saying they didnt talk...

Declassification issue. >> laura: explain that. >> we have seen since monday when the president said he was going to declassify documents. over the last week, "the new york times," abc news, a number of publications have had stories trying to block the declassification, sourced to former and current u.s. officials. i see this as part of the same thing. the "times" stories apparently sourced to andy mccabe. >> he said he didnt talk. his people are saying they didnt talk to "the times" on this. >>...

Brakes on it and they go through the review process, does the president wise up to it or is it one of those scenarios where he doesnt remember it in a couple of days and then a month from now, hell be saying what about my documents? >> if we believe this is being slow walked which seems to be the patd tetern of this administration. >> shadow presidency. >> theres almost reason to think that wouldnt happen in this case because one of those people whos been pushing this whole declassification issu...