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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...

its caught on video. >> mike: great to be with you, sandra. this is "america reports," happened hours ago in new york. >> sandra: attack lasted nearly 20 seconds before the suspect was stopped. >> mike: all this coming more than 30 years after the ayatollah of iran issued calling for rushdies death over his book "satanic verses." >> sandra: it all just happened, brian, what are we learning about rushdies condition at this time? >> we do not know much about his condition. we have not re...

Either they would say, no, the information is still classified, or they could potentially say, no, i think the information should be declassified. and then that would be documented through a follow-on process. thats not ideal. but thats theoretically could happen. >> when the former president says, well, you know, i can just declassify by saying its declassified, if he had done that, there would still be some sort of trace of people saying, okay, the then-president declassified this document -- ...