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Declassification system for those documents. top secret documents that he had at mar-a-lago. so what now? >> well, yes these are 16 documents that i will say also does department subpoena donald trump and his team before that and yet to turn them over, now the national archives according to reporting have told trumps team that we are turning them over to the special counsel looking at the classified documents case. and its still unclear whats in these documents but the thing that we do know is t...

>> tonight were learning trump knew those claims about mental declassification were bogus because he was told so in writing repeatedly while he was in office. according to cnn the national archives is preparing to give special counsel jack smith 16 records which show trump and his top advisers had knowledge of the correct declassification process while he was president, according to multiple sources. nbc news has not independently verified that report, but think about this for a moment. this was...

China and a threat to taiwan, invasion of taiwan are driving regional actors here and allies, china will be on the agenda over the course of the coming days as the president handles international diplomacy and a real domestic problem back home. kate? >> great to have you there, phil. thank you so much. sara? cnn exclusive reporting now. multiple sources telling cnn the national archives found 16 records which show donald trump and his top advisers had knowledge of the correct declassification ...

We now know yesterday the archives sent the trump team a letter that basically said, sorry, these 16 records are on their way to jack smith, which is a problematic development for trump and his defense team and comes at a time when their legal problems are mounting. yesterday a top lawyer from his mar-a-lago legal team said he would be stepping down but claims his departure has nlg to do with the underlying case. joining us now is national security lawyer mark zade and charlie savidge. mark, let...

Obstruction. national security attorney mark zaid making that point last night in light of brand-new reporting on new evidence that could potentially strengthen special counsel jack smiths case into trumps mishandling of classified documents. cnn is reporting that the national archives told the ex-president that it has 16 records that the archives are going toe hand over to special counsel jack smith that show that trump knew about the correct declassification process. quote, in a may 16th lette...

>> its exactly as you say, nicolle. these documents have the potential to reveal exactly what president trump knew at the time those documents were taken from the white house and removed to mar-a-lago. as he has said repeatedly, the president can simply declassify things by thinking about them. but these letters show in fact he was advised, that there was an actual process of declassifying certain materials, that there were particular processes for certain kinds of materials. and the national ar...

The end of the probe. we know from other reporting from our team, based on the loose ends theyre tying up, that theyre likely in the final stage of this investigation. its unclear when the final report would be submitted. >> the special counsel seems to be honing in on whether trump knew the declassification process, the actual one, not the fake one. >> the issue for the special counsel and for the justice dps in all of these cases is to prove intent? every defendant will say i didnt really know...

First, oren, headlines out of what we just heard. >> general pat ryder hit home on the point that the u.s. seized this as international air space and the u.s. will continue to operate there with surveillance drones and other assets as it sees fit. the u.s. has every right to do that. brigadier general pat rider hitting home on that point. then asked, why release the video, and he said, the u.s. release videos when it sees fit, after it goes through a declassification process. we were tracking th...

Charge thats why you see so many of these female lawmakers there -- >> i have to interrupt you we have to go to the pentagon briefing brigadier general pat ryder who is talking about this collision between the russian aircraft and the american drone. >> did you say that this particular reefer was unarmed? >> i didnt say whether it was or was not im going to get into the particular mission profile of this aircraft. it was conducting an isr mission. in terms of the specifics, david, im not going t...

Director of the mixon library told me we now have a tsunami of classified documents, powerpoints and all kinds of stuff all stored somewhere in the cloud. but we still have a tiny staff of people at the national archives for the declassification process. he estimated that it could take five years for a request to declassify a single document to even make it to the agency that has to decide whether to do so. another scholar, matthew connelly of columbia points out that the u.s. government spends ...