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clearly established procedures involving classified documents d. he know the right and wrong way of handling those items when he took them from the white house to mar-a-lago. cnn has learned the national archives is ready to hand over records to special counsel jack smith showing that the former president and his top adviser certainly did know. just walk us through your reporting, jamie. >> anderson, cnn has obtained this letter that was sent by the national archives, as you said, info...

pro punishing protesters forcing some to fight in the very war they want to stop. and crisis of democracies, a warning to the world from french president macron, and his message to donald trump after being wrapped up in the mar-a-lago case. welcome to the lead. im pamela brown in for jake tapper. and we begin with our politics lead. and just in, special master of the trump mar-a-lago documents case opens the door to hearing witness testimony. this, coming after yet another legal defe...

startling details. >> the devil is in the details. >> donald trump had no basis, no reason, no legal basis to retain those documents at mar-a-lago. >> there could be numerous others that are charged, not just donald trump, as well as additional crimes that could be charged. >> is she kidding me? now, she might be getting that idea from one of the small parts of the affidavit that was curiously left unredacted. like on page 30 where it referred to president trump and those around him as...

understatement, redacted, we are learning some new details about the fbi justification for the search of the former presidents home. >> sandra: one part reading "after initial review of the nra referral, the fbi opened a criminal investigation to, among other things, determine how the documents with one classification marking and records were removed from the white house or any other authorized locations for the storage of classified materials, and came to be stored at the premises." >...

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Convenient tools. boom. one bank with the power of both. chase. make more of whats yours. >> welcome back. new developments now when it comes to the classified documents case. abc news reporting that chief of staff mark meadows telling special counsel investigators that he could not recall trump ever ordering or discussing declassifying material before leaving office. that admission will contradict trumps name defense in the classified documents case. meadows is not named in that indictment by t...

That there is no indication or evidence that he ever actually made that decision. >> so, thats -- i mean, its a very important -- its an important point and a fine one. theres a process for declassifying material. the president has broad authority on this to perhaps go outside that process. but its not clear that even if he did that -- >> that he ever actually did that. so, theres -- >> theres a -- are you say theres a way to go outside that process that there would be some sort of trail of? >> ...

Be allowed to view the from honduras now said to have classified version of the grown to a mile long estimated interview before an unclassified one is made public. 7,000 people. president trump once again >> when will the unclassified blaming democrats for the one going to be made public? caravan during a rally in texas last night. >> president trump: you know how the caravan started? thats the question i have. the same justice department i think the democrats have something to do with it. that ...

Brett kavanaugh. >> there is a ton to cover. you have obviously the brett kavanaugh showdown on now on capitol hill. they will be having a hearing on monday. you also, donald trump, going into a full out trade war. and he makes, of course within i dont know if its a mistake, if hes ignorat, but he talks about all the new taxes that the chinese are going to have to pay. chinese dont pay that tax. american consumers will be paying that tax. that is a $200 million tax on american consumers. and, of...