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H -- limited by his post presidency to declassify records. jack smith has it in his possession. sources describe it as a, quote, important piece of evidence in the possible case -- possible charges against trump. it undercuts his argument that he declassified everything. were told the reporting is two minutes long from july of 2021 and in it trump talks about a document involving a potential attack on iran. abby philip asked trump attorney about this last night. he deflected. >> did you know tha...

How would a charge under the espionage act look? >> yeah. the espionage act pro dates -- predates the classified act. it refers to national defense information. now generally speaking, whenever there is a production for leaking or mishandling or stealing classified documents, they still use the espionage act and demonstrate it qualified. but it doesnt have to be. heres the thing. donald trump has a slight bit of truth in his statements. this is the most dangerous place for him. yes, when he was ...

Trump is heard acknowledging the limits of his ability to declassify materials once he was out of the white house which, of course, undercuts every public defense and his attorneys have provided for why he was still in possession of some of the nations most sensitive secrets. >> this is really significant because were talking about a recording and also what it shows based on the other public comments that have been made by the former president and his legal team. >> thats exactly right. over the...

Misrepresent things to the judge. thats why they refuse to do so when dealing with the special master where they kept balking and refusing to indicate whether or not trump had declassified these documents and if they could prove it. they dont want to get to that point. they dont have anything other than trump saying, yeah, i looked at them and said in my mind, its declassified. they know thats not going to work in the end. they can play this game in the media in the interim. >> bradley moss, tha...

And trumps comments suggest that he would like to share the information but he is aware of limitations on his ability post-presidency to declassify records. it gets straight at what he understood and there is reporting anybodying around nibbling around the edges, but this reporting seems to put a whole lot of new information in the public side of what we understand in terms of the strength of jack smiths case and understanding trumps true intent. >> yeah, and i think this is really interesting b...

They are. we know there are 16 documents that could be multiple pages. heres whats most important about this story. it goes to donald trumps intent. what did he know? did he know what he was doing is wrong. you may say of course obviously, but you have to prove it as a prosecutor. what this proves is that the white house was formally told 16 times during trumps presidency, hey f yif youre going to declassify records, this is how you do it. he did not do any of those things. theres no record he d...

Because of it by president trump when he had the authority to declassify records, they would not have had those carpet sheets on. that alone, i am not a lawyer, -- >> one cant help but not be giddy about this, but that is the most outrageous, ludicrous excuse, just by thinking about it? >> don, for four years, donald j trump tried to find ways to lie, to get his way. he lied, he lied, he lied. he has now discovered that there is a point at which lies have consequences. for four years, they did n...

Presidents sole discretion to declassify records. do you think the doj will have a problem saying these were classified if donald trump said they arent because i said so. >> in a vacuum the president of the united states is the ultimate arbitrator with respect to declassified documents numbers no dispute from the top down the president does hold that inparent power. but there is generally speaking with a process with respect to declassifying those documents. if we look at that note owe, when doc...

Presidents sole discretion to declassify records. do you think the doj will have a problem saying these were classified if donald trump said they arent because i said so. >> in a vacuum the president of the united states is the ultimate arbitrator with respect to declassified documents numbers no dispute from the top down the president does hold that inparent power. but there is generally speaking with a process with respect to declassifying those documents. if we look at that note owe, when doc...

Presidents sole discretion to declassify records. do you think the doj will have a problem saying these were classified if donald trump said they arent because i said so. >> in a vacuum the president of the united states is the ultimate arbitrator with respect to declassified documents numbers no dispute from the top down the president does hold that inparent power. but there is generally speaking with a process with respect to declassifying those documents. if we look at that note owe, when doc...