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Not on the cover of time magazine in march of 2009 but he had been hanging fake magazine covers in his golf clubs to make it look likeve he was. just to be clear here, trump wanted so badly to be on the cover of time magazine that he invented a fake time cover all about himself and hung it up in public, in multiple places all over the country. that forgotten little detail from trumps presidency became relevant again today after the department of justice issued its latestrt court filing in the on...

Substantive assessment of the level of damage that this information can do to national security. its quite -- its, frankly, probably not possible for a single person, particularly the president, to actually make that assessment on his own. thats why they, in the declassification process, you bring in the agencies that have equities, who really understand what the consequences and ramifications would be of disclosing this information. so, really, what, you know, this -- this claim that he declass...

Impeachment. if there were a blanket sort of declassification order in place, why would any of us have worried about declassifying the transcript with ukraine? >> when you say there was a process for declassifying it with zelenskyy, how complicated was that process? >> you know, it wasnt complicated. it was just real. it was formal. there were things to do. there was a paper trail to lay out. and there was -- just like everything that happens in the white house, nothing sort of just happens by m...

Order to declassify all documents he took out of the oval office are ludicrous, ridiculous, and b.s. i dont have to say it again, do i? joining me now, cnn special correspondent jamie gangel and cnn senior political commentator david axelrod. hello to both of you. thanks for joining. jamie, you spoke to these 18 top trump officials. theyre calling this standing order patently false. and some even laughed at the idea of it. >> they laughed at it. they scoffed at it. and they did call b.s. don, th...

Classification process, or declassification process, because there are national security implications to documents that are highly classified. now, there are cases of overclassification, and there are cases in which something that should have been classified at one point should no longer be classified. you know, that is -- so these things go -- these discussions go on all the time. but the idea that a president can by fiat do it -- but don, this goes to the larger issue about donald trump. he be...

Country. so theyre gonna be looking at where is this derived from, whos the originator, what was the declassification process, who touched, who helped him, all of that going on as we speak. >> it makes me think back to that last month where trump was in office. stephen newton jared kushner, overseas in the middle east, building their next businesses for when they were leaving the administration. its funny if those countries would be interesting this information. peter, melissa, frank, dont go an...

He cant have done this all alone and it is unlikely that he packed all of those boxes, kept them in wherever they were at mar-a-lago. somebody had to have knowledge of this, i think theyre looking at other people as well. and weve already talked about the damage assessment and the other thing is, whether this information come from. we talk about this broad part to declassify as the president, not really when it comes to other countries, classified data that they shared with us. you tried this be...

0 im sandra smith. >> mike: im mike >> martha: good afternoon, everybody. our continuing coverage of the breaking news story both on capitol hill and out of the mar-a-largo situation. the deadline has now arrived. it is 3:00 p.m. for the former president to contest the court in the release of the warrant that was involved in the raid of his florida home. fox news has just reviewed the warrant along with the property receipt. were going through all of this. youve heard some of it over the course ...

About trying to punish the president because of those violations? and then, two, did the president mishandle classified information, which can be an even bigger legal issue that the president is facing. on that issue of classified documents, there are a lot of people who are skeptical whether or not the department could ultimately prosecute trump for doing this because the legal bar is pretty high here because a president has a lot of jurisdiction and control over classified documents and what i...

Seriously classified information. i think if they can confirm reporting there was actually classified information in these boxes and theyll be able to being do that. >> we understand there are big questions about the status of those documents. did he go through some declassification process before he took them down to mar-a-lago. we need more reporting. he cant declassify things in his head if he wants to wave the magic wand. he cant declassify things r retroa retroactively, right? >> he cannot ...