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For fbi generated information, i could make the decision to close classify or for that matter to classify. and i know the process. i know what it looks like. i know my signature is on documents that i classified. and you can know who did it and when. but what im intrigued by with kash patel and you mentioned lawyers protecting themselves, he is protecting himself because i think that he knows that this is nonsense that he has been spouting about i saw the president declassify all this stuff, i t...

Cooperating witness. and now you have the white house lawyers who would be aware of what trump was told about the process for taking any records from the white house. and they testified many moons ago. so talk about what jack smith knows from talking to everyone who has represented trump and any context where he would have any to do, say or think about classified material. >> and we use the word unprecedented a lot but there is just no case ive ever heard of that has built so much on the backs o...

Not a gag order, mr. trump is free to campaign, defend himself. what hes not free to do is violate the terms of this order. everybody trying to be on clear behavior, the lawyer and the judge. this is what we have told you, because everyone is trying to protect themselves and the process against the possibility and the real probability that donald trump is not going to go along with it. >> theres an undeniable parallel to whats going on in jack smiths classified documents case where weve been tal...

Cline on certain things. there were certain things like the searches that he had attempted to interfere with. parlatore, who said he had left the trump team due to infighting, -- may defending trump more difficult. a trump campaign spokesman said that his assertions were categorically false. it is also worth noting that parlatore hasnt just served on the legal team as a legal counsel. the attorney also testified late last year before the grand jury hearing, hearing on evidence about the classifi...

Said. >> did you ever show those classified documents to anyone? not really. i would have the right to. >> what do you mean not really? >> not that i could think of. let me just tell you. i have the absolute right to do whatever i want with them. i have the right. >> as his defense attorney, what was your reaction to that answer? not really. >> well i was focusing on the question did you show any classified documents to anybody and he hasnt admitted there were classified documents there. >> well...

>> right. you know, we have no evidence to suggest that he showed any classified documents to anyone. and i think it was something where he got caught on the spot and gave maybe an inartful answer. ultimately, we have no evidence that he thoed showed classified documents to anybody. >> did you ask him if he showed documents that didnt go through the declassification process to anyone? >> that would not be a discussion -- even if i did have that conversation, ethically i am not allowed to talk ab...

See too often, but when you have a federal employee or of former employee who wants to assert uniquely federal defenses, and i feel trump will, then they are authorized to seek this removal. in other words, we could end up with a lot of different cases in federal court. jack smith, i dont think the special counsel will indict trump in the northern district of georgia, but if you do have multiple cases all in the federal system, it makes coordination much easier. >> i often feel like i am opening...

Of the official process for how to declassify things, which totally makes sense because trump really like sharing classified information when he was in office. remember the time that president trump casually revealed highly classified information to the russian foreign minister during a white house meeting? or the time he tweeted out a highly classified image from a u.s. by satellite? or the time that he had sensitive discussions about north korea with the japanese prime minister in front of a c...

Saying its the classified, even by thinking about it. >> there does not need to be a process, i can declassify it by when, when i think its declassified, when i say its the classified, is, proof. national security experts everywhere found this ridiculous, but trump stuck with the defense. this is what he said at a town hall last week. >> i was there and took what i took, and it gets the classified. let me tell you, i have the absolute right to do whatever i want with them. i have the right. >> t...

Leaving the white house. meanwhile, trump has lost a key member of his defense team in this case. timothy parlatore testified before the grand jury in december. his exit comes at a critical time, when the special counsel may be nearing the final stretch in the criminal probe. we do have one of the members who was still on donald trumps team. his name is jim trusty any joins us now. jim trusty, thank you for being here, lets get right into it. as president of the united states, did donald trump k...